School

Well I haven't exactly been very good at updating my blog regularly, but I am going to try harder. Right now I am sitting in my bedroom looking out at the rain and the wind blowing all the trees around. It's 8:35am and you're probably wondering why I'm not at school. On Mondays, I don't start school until 6th period! This morning I didn't sleep in, but it will be nice in the future when I am really tired.

School is going pretty well. I have 8 classes and most of the German kids have 12 or more. I take Politics, Math, English, German, PE, Chemistry, Geography, and Art. Each class period is 45 minutes and after 45 minutes there is a 5 minute passing period. I have about half block classes and half regular classes. The kids are all really nice and they are very helpful when I need something translated or explained because most of them can speak fairly good English. The school itself is pretty big and is split into separate buildings that are connected by hallways. It is a little confusing, but I think I've got the hang of it.

Since I am in the 11th year, we get a few perks. There is a room called the Oberstufe Raum, where all the kids in the 11th, 12th, and 13th year can hang out, play pool, do homework, or sleep :). So when I have a free period, I go there and read, listen to my iPod, or talk to kids. Also, when a teacher is sick, or for some reason can't come to school, the class is canceled. Every morning before school starts, all the kids go look at a piece of paper that says all the classes that are canceled for the day. There is quite the celebration when a teacher is gone!

My school is made up of grades 5-13, but there are supposedly only 800 kids. Year 11 has 80 kids, which seems like hardly any compared to the number of juniors at MSHS! I think I am older than most of the kids, but I'm not sure. It's pretty much like at home, where I am on the old end.

This is kind of a short post, but like I said, I'm going to try to write more often, so there'll be more soon.

Bis bald,

Carrie