Sh-Sh-Sh-Schule

Best part about being German:
Schultüte
wikipedia it, if you want more information (i still believe it's a source)
It's this cone that parents fill with sweet stuff for their kids on the first day of school, so school doesn't suck so much. I was so happy. My parents put enough chocolate for my whole school, a solid chocolate cell phone (Handy) my favv, and a erally cute pink mechanical pencil - they said that was so I could use it in America too -, and a Füller, a sweet ballpoint, inkish pen. i love it. I wanted one so bad, but they are 11 euros, and Bri's broke. look that up too if you wanna know more about it.




Anyways, so school day one. Aparently because I'm old, I got to start school Friday instead of Thursday. I was all sortsa nervous nevertheless. My first class was German. Now in theory that sounds good, but I was in 12th grade German, und dass geht garrr nichts (that's absolutely not okay - my favorite German phrase). So since my ability to understand is pretty good, i figure this won't necessarily be a walk in the park, but managable. Wrong. I seriously almost fell asleep. I was sitting in the front, because there were no other seats available when I got to class, right on time, with the teacher. I probably would have fell asleep if every student wasn't ripping me apart with their eyes. I mean the attention was cute, for the first 5 minutes. But the 85 minutes that followed, weren't so sweet. I had 2 hours of German instead of just one. I mean it was so much to take in, and beforehand the teacher announced to the class that I told her that she talked too fast for me to understand, and they definately got a kick out of that. I got about 2 solid minutes of laughter to prove it. Then she had me write my name on the board, for whatever reason. It's not like they really cared all too much. But anyways, after class, I needed to go to the books we would be reading. She assigned someone to take me, I never did meet that boy. But what was nice is 7 girls ran up to me, "Hi, I'm so and so, let's be friends". A little less cheesy, but nevertheless, sweet.

So I made new friends, good start. But this whole, almost falling asleep in class thing because I don't know anything is gonna have to stop I think. I mean I know it'll get easier to understand everything, but Lord knows i'm wayy to impatient. My class schedule is pretty sweet. Some classes are gonna suck, but the reason I'm taking them is because they're things I can teach myself with the good ole world wide web, things that are ojective, versus subjective.

German school's alot like college in that way, it's alot more come and go as you please, except attendance is necessary, and you need to be on time. But this is my Schedule:

Montag
8-9:30: English
10-11:30: Math
11:50-1:25: Chemistry
1:25-3:15: Dance
*Mondays kinda suck, minus Dance*

Dienstag
8-9:30: Religion
10-11:30: Informatik (typing)
11:50-1:25: Biology

Mittwoch
10-11:30: English
11:50-1:25: Geography
1:25-3:15: German

Donnerstag
7:10-9:30: Spanish *triple block...*
10-11:30: Informatik (typing)

Freitag
8-9:30: German
10-11:30: Art
11:50-1:25: Math

All in all, that doesn't super suck. I mean it's hard. But look at it this way, if things get too hard, I can switch classes, nothing is a must for me. I'm here to learn the language, figure out German school, hopefully do well, and feel accomplished.

For whatever reason, I had no math class Friday, on my first day, when I don't even know which way is up, and I was waiting for my host parents to pick me up, since everything's block schedule, I had to wait for them for 90 minutes... So much fun. I couldn't call because they were out shopping, for the party this weekend, and no one had their cell phone numbers. The only homework I had was German, to read 30 pages in this book, and this is the day my dictionary is laying on my bed... hahaha, what a day.

The book were reading is all kindsa hard, so I went to the bookstore this weekend and bought it in English, so I can read both and not get completely called out in class. haha.

But no need to worry about me, other than a few miscommunications here and there, school doesn't suck so bad, and my new friends are cool. I think this is going to be a good year, and in 8 or 10 weeks, we get our first ferien (BREAK!) so I'm down with that.

I'll try and keep you posted on everything when I have a break from all the homeworrrrrrk. <3