My school and how things are going for me

Blog entry Nr. 4

Hollllaaa

how are you doing in Germany?

Hopefully very good.

I'm doing pretty good here, even though I sometimes get homesick more than I thought.

But that's normal and I just need lots of things to do and distractions.

So today I will tell you about a few things that I have noticed here or that I have experienced.

Okay, it's currently winter / spring here, although you only notice it sometimes.

The weather here is very changeable.

During our first days here it was really, really cold. I'm a bit sensitive to cold myself, but we all froze, even though there were exchange students from countries like Finland, who are used to even colder temperatures.

In our main common room there was a fireplace that saved our lives.

You can imagine it like this:

About forty people stood around a small fireplace and tried to warm up while it rained most of the time outside.

In Salto it was a bit warmer, but still too cold for me.

Now the temperatures are quite varied and it really depends on the sun whether it's warm or cold.

However, I have already been told many times that it will be unbearably hot in the summer here and that I won't want to leave the house anymore.

I'm excited.

We have 4 months of summer vacation here, precisely because it gets so hot, which means that I have to occupy myself for 4 months. 4 months.

I mean, I really like vacations and free time and sleeping in, but that's really long.

YFU has given us tips on what to do and should do.

It is certain that I will definitely do a voluntary month somewhere, meaning that I will work somewhere and since I am not allowed to work for money here, it will be voluntary.

I hope there is a good organization here in terms of environmental protection or animal rescue or something.

But now I still have school until November, about which I will tell you a bit.

My school day is Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

That means I'm in the "morning shift".

Here it is like this, one half goes to school in the morning and the other in the afternoon.

I am in 5th grade here, there is elementary school from 1st to 6th grade and then secondary school, again from 1st to 6th grade.

There are also different orientations here, such as biology, math, art and more.

I chose art because we also have music and theater there.

There are 2 other exchange students in my class. One from Germany, Clea, who is also here with YFU, we met on the plane and we are now good friends.

And one from Norway, Mari, who has been here for half a year and can already speak Spanish well, I also get along very well with her and we are good friends. The rest of my class is also very nice, although it is not easy to communicate because hardly anyone speaks English.

There are the normal public schools here, but also many private schools that you have to pay for.

I am at a public school that only goes from 4th to 6th grade.

Everything I am telling you now naturally only relates to my school and my experiences, I know that it is very different at other schools.

So at my school I have the feeling that school is not taken too seriously.

I have been in school for 3 and a half weeks now and we haven't done much yet.

And of course, I don't understand much, which doesn't make it any more exciting. But we have Wi-Fi in our school, which I partly use well (translate things or learn Spanish grammar) and partly not so well (social media, ...).