Dear Dad,
Today was a more normal school day. It was fun to ride along in their daily routine. Of course it is a little more lax now because all the finals are done and so the students have little to do. I woke up early and made my bed and got dressed. It was so cold last night that I slept in all my clothes so all I had to do was put jeans on and brush my hair. I make my bed here every morning because all I have to do is fold two blankets on a small bed! It is much easier here than at home with my giant bed and plethora of pillows and blankets. When I came downstairs Katrin quickly handed me a bread roll and told me we were running late and we were having 'easy breakfast.' She had stayed out late the night before, which is much more normal and tolerable here. Since I was ready to go right away, her little brother Michael took me to school so that we were not late. I was greeted warmly by my classmates and we sat down for Chemistry, which is their Main Lesson class right now. We played Mad Libs and I read, while Zac wrote me a story about Indians and bugs in my journal. That class is kinda boring because we know no German Chemistry terms, so we have no idea what is going on.
After that we went to the little bistro they have in their school where for like 60 cents you can get a sandwich or something. Katie and I split a raisin cinnamon roll with butter. It was of course very nice. Then Katrin had swimming, so I stayed with the other group who had French because it is really cold here and I had no plans for swimming. We watched a really funny French film that included English, Spanish, French and German in the dialogue, so I was completely confused. But it was funny. Then we putted around in the computer lab for a while, which was fun, even though their keyboards were even more different. Then we had lunch, so we went to the cafeteria where we ate noodles with mushrooms and beef and salad and chocolate pudding.
Then we all walked to a nearby ice cream shop and got ice cream. I split mine with Chase. We had a short break where Chase, Katie, Makayla and I played on this flying saucer-like thing for a while. It was fun. Mr.Toole thought we were completely crazy (well, I imagine he did). Then we had music, but the teacher never showed up so we went and played in the compute lab some more. Lastly we had clay, which was very exciting. At first I was so sleepy I was afraid I would fall asleep, but when we got clay I woke up! We made faces the size of fists, and the only requirements was that it had all the features of a human. Mine was so cute, it had a GIANT nose. We named it Sir Abicus Moore and I imagined it having a very stuffy British accent and sniffing a lot, kinda nasaly. After school we rode our bikes home like we always do, and I met Katrin's dad who was away in Nigeria! He is very kind.
We ate a small early dinner with mangos from Nigeria for dessert and now I have some free time, or a pause as they say before we go to watch the soccer game, Germany vs. Austria, I think. It's a big one! If I knew more about soccer I would be thrilled.
We are in Darmstadt for only three more days, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Then Friday morning we leave for Bad Schandau. We will all be sad to leave our new friends behind, but with Facebook, email and everything I hope we can stay in touch. I am very excited about seeing the other destinations of our trip too. I like this city so much I can't wait to see others! And we are going to see an Opera and a particle accelerator which I have a strange fascination with, and of course many museums. There is too much to be excited about! I am bursting.
On a more random note, I just really looked outside and saw a HUGE pine tree, that thing must be at least 100 feet tall. Why did I not notice that? Man. It's big.
Well, that is all for now. I will try to keep writing such detailed, lengthy letters, but I am not sure how constant the internet access will be when we are staying in Youth Hostels. We'll see together!
Love you all so much and miss you so much!!!
Lily
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