School: Day 1

Today I went to school for the first time! I was nervous, but the teacher, Frau Vieweger, showed me around. The whole class had prepared for our arrival, with three cakes and a blackboard showing 'Welcome to 5D!' in both German and English. We seated ourselves in a big circle and started doing a Question Answer session. Since it was supposed to be English lesson, we were allowed to answer in English, and, if they wanted to, the other students could ask their questions in English.
The system in Germany is very different. The kids are allowed to wear mufti and the class goes to different rooms for different lessons, each with different teachers. The school layout is also different: the school is divided into separate blocks, each about three storeys high.
The teachers there give me a lot of homework: the German teacher made me write a page-long text about my dream school, which I have just finished, and the art teacher wanted us to finish an "artwork" that "taught" us about the different shades of grey: white, light-grey, middle-grey, dark-grey and 'almost black', and then write a paragraph about contrast. My favourite lesson was sport. In sport, we play a game called Völkerball, a game where the players throw balls with the aim to get everybody on the opposite team out. Hard thing is, the players that are out can still get the other team out, and, in doing so, get themselves back in.

Me in front of the Hermann-Vöchting Gymnasium.

My art homework.

All about my dream school.

Grandma enjoys her ice-cream.

Grandpa likes his more than grandma, he says.

Niklas likes his ice-cream a lot.

I'm loving mine. Delicious!