Australia Presentation

Today Murray and I went to one of the year 9 English classes and spoke a bit about Australia and the differences between it and Germany, talking about uniform and the lack of public transport and all of that kind of jazz. We showed photos of the school and Sydney Harbour and other things. It was the class who had the same teacher as who we have for GK. A few of the people to ask questions about stuff and at the end I asked who was thinking about coming back to Australia on exchange next year and about 6 or 7 people put up their hand from just the one class! We also had double maths, double physics and a single of English.

Stuttgart and Steak

Today we didn't go to church because we went to Stuttgart instead. We went to a steakhouse where we had some of the best steak ever. I had a Mr Rumpsteak with salad and an amazing baked potato with sour cream. Delicious! After lunch we went to the Christmas markets and had a look around, bought punch. There was even a garden model railway surrounded by one of the ride on railways! It also occurred to me that Stuttgart is my most visited city in Europe. I have visited it more than I have visited Melbourne! I have only been to Melbourne once, but I went to Stuttgart on the 2013 Germany Trip, 2015 Europe Trip and One exchange as well! On multiple occasions for each trip as well! Here are some photos and a video of the train!

Here is a link to some interesting facts about the Stuttgart Christmas markets such as 3.5 to 4 million visitors annually. http://stuttgarter-weihnachtsmarkt.de/en/general/wissenswertes/

Later I helped Julian some more with preparation for his maths test.

Photo and video from horse ridding

Here is a photo and a video of Laura and I horse ridding. My horse is the middle while one. It's name is Schumi as in Michael Schumacher.

Monopoly and math

Today was another quiet day. I helped Julian prepare for his math test on Monday. It was a bit hard explaining it in German but I think we wnt alright. Julian and Laura's Oma also came over for Kaffee und Kuchen (Coffee and Cake, Afternoon Tea) where we had tea and muffins. I had a chocolate milk! After that Julian, Laura, Thomas and I played Monopoly City which is a different version of Monopoly for 2 hours! Thomas left halfway though, splitting his money and districts between Julian, Laura and I. By the end of the two hours we came to an agreement to end the game saying Julian won because he had the most districts and he had about 7 times the amount of money that I had. I kept on landing on the most expensive district which Julian owned, doing so about 5 times. But I got my revenge when he  kept landing on one of my districts which was maxed out costing 13.5 Million to land on (which is about 1350 in the original game) And he landed on it about 4 times in a row!

One lesson and horses

Today was a very easy day at school. It started with us going to the church in Mössingen where the Germans had a rehearsal for the Christmas church service. Nick, Murray and I just sat in the row and talked and watched the Germans rehearsing. After that we walked to school which was a couple of kilometres and arrived in time for recess. After recess was double French/Latin so we just went to the break room. Finally our only lesson for today was a double chemistry.

Later after school, Laura and I went up the Swabian Alps to go horse riding. This week was better because well my horse didn't get spooked! We did a few different things, getting into a trot, doing circles, figure 8s and other stuff. Karin took some photos.

Ultra short day!

Even though today was Thursday which is normally a long day, we were home earlier than Wednesdays and Fridays. We had a double German, recess, double chemistry, and that was it. That was school for today. So we were out of school by 11:20 am, caught the bus to the train station, waited for the train, caught the train to Bodelshausen and got on the bus. We all went to the Döner Kebab shop for lunch which is down the road from our house. Laura and I walked home and Laura went back out again to do MUM homework with Luisa, Sandra, one of the Pauls (there are three) and Mark. I stayed home because I am in a different MUM class so I didn't have their homework. I was in the house eating Döner by 12:20 pm. All of this was because of teachers being away and the lunch break starts earlier for us on Thursdays because we have a free before lunch because KL goes into lunch on Tuesday. This meant we could just leave even earlier. Not that buses match up or anything but it would be pretty cool if we could do it at WAC if the teacher was away you just had a free and could go home if it was last period!

Nick's first day

Today Nick came to school with Hannah. He arrived on Tuesday morning. It was a pretty good day for him to come to school because it was Wednesday which is a short day. We also had double English, a double free and physics so the only lesson which was hard was physics. We had a free because the Germans had a math test and neither Murray or I felt up to it. Both of us with a bit of a cold. When we got home I slipped a bit on the marble stairs coming upstairs and smashed my right knee onto the edge of the step really hard and it hurt to move. No blood but very sore.