Ein Jahr in Deutschland

Willkommen zurück! I hope you haven’t gotten sick of my blogs yet, because I’ve got a few more coming this week. I’m getting closer to being caught up every day, so I’ve just got to make it a few more days. As you might be able to tell from the title (which translates to “Finally, Vacation!”), today’s blog is over the beginning of my fall break. However before I had the break, I still had 4 more days of school to get through. It starts on Tuesday the 4th, after my fun 3-day weekend in Bielefeld.    After the fun weekend, I was back in school for another 4 days before we finally reached vacation. It was a very hectic week, due to so many teachers having their Klausurs and many others having to help with the Klausurs. On Tuesday I had a mostly normal day, except for my Spanish teacher not being there. And because German schools don’t hire substitutes, we had those two Stunden (Stunden means hour but here actually means 45 minutes) free. I went to a nearby market i...

Hello again! I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s post, and if you did, you’ll probably enjoy this one! After my first three weeks I had really fallen into the rhythm of German life, and not a ton happened. Despite this, I hope I can make this post entertaining and interesting for all of you guys.    So after my fun weekend on the 17th and 18th, I started yet another normal school week. It wasn’t especially exciting, so I took some of my free time to explore the city. I also spent a while trying to find a tin suitable for making pies, but to no avail.              Come the weekend, we had a bit more to do. Friday afternoon was nice and calm, but on Saturday morning my host mom and I rode our bikes across the Rhine to the Fahrradmarkt, a “bicycle market”. It’s a weekly gathering where people sell used bikes, and we were heading there to try to find a better bike for me to ride. I really wanted a street bike so I could get...