Hello friends. How is everything going? Hopefully quite well. All is well over here in Germany, it's a beautiful day again after the past week of clouds and rain. How is AP Hell going for everyone? You're what, half way through? I have no idea when any of the tests are, so the most I can say is that I hope they have gone or do go well. I know Lit was on Thursday, so how did it go? Things ended up getting really messed up with trying to send a test to me here, and since my school here never responded to the BHS administration, I didn't take it. And so instead of only having one test next year as I was originally intending when I chose my courses, I will be taking five. Four of which are classes that I will have had only the year before. So I don't look forward to that at all, but it happens I guess. I'll live. I'm just bummed that I wasted so much of my time here studying for Lit when it turns out I'm not even taking it this year. But how'd it go for those that did? What was your open ended essay?
In other news, as I have said all is going well. I have a long weekend coming up next week and then I think a week or two after that I have a two week break from school. Ah, you just have to love the German school system. I have almost been here for a month and that doesn't seem real to me. It feels like maybe two weeks, sure sign that it feels like home and time is flying. The first two weeks of being here were kind of hard, it just took a while to become adjusted to life in a different country and living with a different family... But the people I am living with have made it as easy as they could. They are really a wonderful family. It is so strange for me to be living in a household like this, considering my family back in the states is almost never all home at the same time, and there always seems to be someone around that doesn't live there. And here, they eat at least one meal (usually like three) together every day. It happens maybe once every six months in my house in the states, not including holidays. So it's definitely a change and I am still not entirely used to be asked if I need anything constantly. Seriously, it is unusual if an hour passes without someone in the family asking me if I need anything.
All in all, things are way cool here. It's Europe though, so that is to be expected. I still want to try and hop over to Italy while I'm here, so that I can cross that off of my list of things to do before I die. Apparently it's really cheap to fly in Europe, so maybe I'll get to go during this two week break coming up. I'm also going to Berlin over that time span, but probably only for a few days. But anyway, I should probably get going and allow you all to move on with your lives. I hope you survive AP Hell and that the school year winds down nicely for you all.
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I am drooling with envy, Mackie. It sounds like things are going well for you.
How different are the schools there, anyway? Other than the long break.
Different. Every day of the week you have a different schedule. So like, Mondays I have a certain set of classes and I'm done by 12:55, Tuesdays and Wednesdays I have whole different sets of classes and I'm done at 4:15, and then Thursdays it's until 12:55 and Fridays we're out at 12:05. And since I'm in the upperclass here, when the teacher is gone you don't have a sub and you just don't have that class that day. And each class is only forty five minutes long, and at 10:10, after 3rd hour, you get a twenty minute break which is basically just there so that all the kids can eat. They eat like 6 times a day, and I am not even kidding.
So yeah, school here is different. And since I'm an exchange student, the teachers all basically ignore me and so I write my novel during class. So all day, I sit around and write and then go home. It's wonderful. But they only have a month and a half for summer, not the three months we have back home. But that's okay, considering all the random days and weeks off spread throughout.
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