Wanderwoche in die Schule

This week is an exciting week for everyone in my school. It's a week where all the classes go on class trips everyday of the week with there homeroom class. My guest sister is in France for the week because her main subject is French! My class has around 20 students, and it's half and half with the number of boys and girls. The homeroom class is a Politics and Ethics class. I don't find the topic that interesting, but the girl that was supposed to help me out is in it, and that is why that is that. Anyway, I have made some friends in that class and this week has helped talking, and getting to know everyone more.

The first day of the 'Wanderwoche' (traveling week) We traveled to Geißen a pretty big sized city and went to the Berufsinformationszentren (career information center). It was quite boring for me because we had a short speech from a worker there, and then did research on computers on their website. It was boring because there wasn't enough computers and we didn't make any effort to find another one because I wouldn't be able to understand anything anyway. So I just sat by a friend and grabbed a German book from a shelf and read. It is SO boring to read something and not understand it. I know what the book was about though! It was speaking and learning different languages for work, that's why I got it. :) After this boring time me and a couple of the girls went to a food court in a mall, and I got Chinese food. I usually just get what everyone else does and I wasn't complaining. The noodles were actually better than the places in Hawaii.

The second day we were in the school! Yuck. We had a pretend election because
1. It is a politics class
and
2. The elections here are in September!
After voting we went into the computer lab to learn more about the parties. Now thinking about it you would believe it should be the other way around. I like the computer thing because I have Google translate! So now I know a little bit more about the parties in Germany.

Wednesday: We went to Geißen again, and this time went to a Climbing Park! We went with the train and the weather was gloomy, it was rainy, cloudy, and coooolllldddd. It stopped raining when we got there so we were able to climb, but everything was wet. We geared up and did a little test run with a employee and then we were free to go on the big jungle gym of climbing. I went with two of the girls from my class and we started out with the second to hardest level. Everyone was just blasting through the course completely depending on the safety harness, and I tried to do some without relying on it, but when everyone goes fast you are pretty much forced to go fast as well. Orrr you could always be the thorn in the side person who all let out a groan to, and therefore I didn't "climb". After the first round me and one of the girls, Greta, went on the hardest level! This course had a snowboard attached to a zip-line it was pretty cool, but I stopped way to far away from the other side! I need to gain some weight or something for that. Anyway, don't you worry I made it. There was one boy who got tangled up in the snow board and it's in plain view of the main area where the kids were. He had to get "rescued" poor kid he got his photo taken and all, but it was quite hilarious. After climbing we ate pretzels there that I guess they supply, and how random is that! pretzels of the doughy sort not the crackers. We did not stay in the city of climbing because we were pretty far away, and I believe no one really felt like it, I know I didn't.

Thursday: This day was also in the school, and the whole 10th grade was there for the drug and alcohol awareness day. They had presentations and slideshows and movies, but they also had simulations! First we went into a car and the simulation men spun it upside down! Jessi, a girl in my class and I were the third ones to go, and also the last in our class. They told us to put your feet and hands on the top of the car and slowly with one hand unleash your buckle. Everyone did this and I was preparing to do the same thing when they decided that since I was the last they would show everyone how to get the person out of the car. Okay, well first of all I had only a vague understanding of what they wanted me to do from watching the others, but then they decided to do something completely different! You kind of have to "go with the flow" when things like this happen and hope no one gets annoyed if you do something wrong. This strategy worked, and I understood what he was doing when he literally went under me and propped me up. So that was cool, I'm glad I learned that because I'm sure if it ever happens to me it will pop right in my head. Side note, It actually happened to Phyllis while she was in the U.S. :O She still has shoulder problems (she missed this day)
The next simulation was what it looks like to be on ecstasy or to be drunk. We put on these glasses and had to walk in a straight line with the drunk glasses, and with the ecstasy glasses push a cart around. It was pretty funny to see, and I have no idea how good I did. The last simulation I did was turning someone over when they have fainted and have fallen on their back. So if this happens to any of you when you drink a little too much you better hope I am there to keep you breathing.

Friday: The last day! This means I can post this for everyone very soon. This is a lot of work to write blogs, I'm thinking about doing it once a week, please comment what day you want it. On Friday we went to Frankfurt am Main, we went again with the train which is expensive, but you can buy a group ticket and it is pretty cheap compared actually you save around 12 Euro. This day we went to a Film Museum it wasn't very big, but we were there for a good 2 hours. It had very cool displays, and it had the English translation written under the German. Yes! They had sketch designs from characters, and costumes, sound samples, and a display where you could play with the lighting to create an affect. They also had a 4 panel display playing clips from movies put together into a collage, I watched most of it, and it was very well done. After the museum I went with Greta and two other girls to a street that was filled with shops, it is pretty famous for the people here. On one of the other side of the street they have all the expensive stores and when you walk done it you can expect to see nice cars, and rich people. After shopping I toured a little bit more of Frankfurt with Phyllis because she goes to school and is an apprentice in Frankfurt.



OKAY. Thank you for reading my Wanderwoche experience, you can comment and tell me how to improve my writing or tell me about the common grammatical mistakes I make. Then it will be a little more bearable for you next time! Remember to comment what day out of the week you would like to read my blog.
Thank you!