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So, I'm doing pretty good, minus this whole shoulder dislocation thing. I dunno what's up with that whole situation, and it's even harder for me to talk to a doctor here, because I cannot communicate the major problem in German. Hopefully I'll get better, and things like doctor visits and shopping won't require dictionary or babysitting. But it'll come, let's hope.

Anyways, as far as school goes... the social aspect is great. The actual lessons... well let's just say, my notes don't reflect what the teacher is talking about most of the time. Let's break it down, course by course.

Englisch (English)
Obviously a joke, my teacher doesn't really speak English i'm pretty convinced. The students in the class ask me questions before they ask her. And when I speak English to the teacher, I have to slow down... It's a really big, funny joke. I think i'll pass this class.

Mathe (Math)
Math, I haven't had a whole bunch, only one lesson, and it was more of a get to know you lesson, and this is what we're going to talk about. So tomorrow, we'll see how much math I don't know. Most of this should be review, just in German... hopefully.

Chemie (Chemistry)
I went, and I quit. All the information from Chemistry in America that I know, have different words here, I don't like it. It would take me 2-3 times longer to understand what every lesson was about, because I would have to translate it back to information I already know. It's just not worth the stress. I would sit in class and doodle, and for 90 minutes, that's not okay.

Tanzen (Dance)
Hands down my favorite class of the week. It's like legit dance, not dance fitness at west where you run the mile every other day, or do cardio aerobics, not dance. We have like jazz shoes and we do it up. It's pretty easy for me, because it's not super high crazy advanced, it's just fun. And there's a dance team after school that I'm gonna do. They meet twice a week I think and it's free!

Religion (Religion)
I like this class too. It's interesting to listen to people's different opinoins about religion, and that's a whole new set of vocabulary that I have to learn. But it actually interests me. About half of my school is Muslim I think and it's really interesting to learn about that culture, alot of my new friends are also Muslim.

Informatik (Not typing - Robots)
This class is alot of English, we are building robots and writing the programs for them. It's pretty sweet, because I understand it all because the baseprogram is in English. It's really cool, I never took a tech class or anything like that at West, so it's a completely different situation for me.

Geographie (Geography)
As we all know, Brianna knows nothing about World Geo. Thus, this class is very challenging. Should be good to learn. But we're reading all these papers about earthquakes and stuff (i think) and I can't read it. The translation takes me so long...

Deutsch (German)
Oh this is just straight funny. We all know how German class started for me last Friday. But it was funny yesterday because we're reading a book, and it's in "old German" just like in AP English and stuff, we read books that're in "Old English" and it's hard for us, well now I'm on my own. Because I go to class and the teacher explains the reading in German, and generally speaking, I don't understand very much. We're reading The Sorrows of Young Werther. I bought it in English and I'm trying to understand everything. If you know anything about this book feel free to share.

Spanisch (Spanish)
So, my thought process: "Spanish is good for me at home, I have a good solid foundation and everything will be great, and help me with German vocab, etc etc."
Yeah no. That's about all I can say about that. I was wrong. I am in Spanish 3 I believe, I wanted to be in Spanish 1 but they only have one class. So I'm strugglin there too. And it's my early class (Thursdays from 710-930)-triple hour. It's okay though. The girls in my class are pretty nice, and once my electronic translator gets here, it should be easier.

Kunst (Art)
Super fun. My teacher is really funny. And speaks partish English. I'm not very good at art, but I mean it's a neat class, we're working with plastics, Paper Mâché, Paint, and other things. I like all that stuff, and I like to think I'm creative.

So overall school's sweet. One of my new friends, Maria, just turned 17 on Wednesday, so she's having a birthday party on Saturday. That should be fun. My friends are all really young. It's really funy. But I'm in their classes, I'm in the 11th class, not 12th. Because I think everyone knew that would be too hard. But it's okay. The people are really nice, and there's a handleful of 18 year olds. Not that it really matters. At this point, friends are friends.

I miss everyone a bunchhhhhh.
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