Last Friday marked the end of my first school week in Germany, and the start of my first full weekend. Though I can understand more and more German every day, classes are still hard because the teachers speak so fast, and the subjects are pretty advanced. Almost every day I end school at a different time, and the bus runs pretty regularly. It's pretty difficult to understand at first, and I still have to ask my host family sometimes which bus to take.
Saturday was a pretty full day. The first graders, because it's their first year, have a special first day of school, and the second graders perform short plays. Lorenz is in second grade, so we all went to watch. It was really sweet. Afterwards we drove to the first AFS chapter meeting in a town called Reutlingen. There are only three other students in my chapter. It was a little boring, but worth the trip, because we were able to buy cheap ski jackets at a nearby store. Later that night, a family friend called Katha asked me if I wanted to go to a party. I needed an I.D. to get in, and Corina was worried my driver's license wouldn't work, because the Germans write the date day.month.year, and as my birthday is January 11th, it looked as if I was born on November 1st. . Fortunately it passed inspection. The party was loud and full, and we ended up leaving at 11:15.
Math is super confusing in Germany, because I'm pretty sure we haven't done derivatives back home, and that's what my class is doing now. Hopefully I'll find something online that can explain it to me. On Tuesday morning I had art, but no one except one boy showed up to the classroom. Apparently we were supposed to meet in the center of the city, but I didn't know that. My classmate figured it out, and we walked super fast down into Sigmaringen. The class was critiquing a gallery of paintings done special ed children, which was semi-interesting. The breakfast the teacher gave us after was much more fun. My art and English teachers are definitely my favorite so far. They're so nice and laid back!
Today I got to try rock climbing for the first time. Michael is a really good climber, and he seems to know all the good cliffs over the Donau. We climbed up and up and up to get to the cliff, and the view itself was worth it. Rock climbing was really fun, and so was mini-golfing afterwards. I got invited to go to a theater or a festival tomorrow, but we're going hiking in Austria, which I'm super psyched for! More pictures to come!
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