My first diary entry for this trip
Its been interesting the last few days coming to a new region. I've been procrastinating so there is lots to write about. We arrived in Germany on a morning flight and it didn't help that we arrived from Abu Dhabi after the bomb scare a few weeks ago. It took one hour for the baggage to arrive. I met up with all the DFSR people and we had breakfast and then we did a walk up to the Starkenburg. Katja lost her dog, and it was found by a stranger in the next town and luckily the dog had a chip. Jet lag was not a big problem on the first day but then it got worse and then better. We had three people from Victoria, one from Queensland and three from Sydney. It was really fun to be back in Germany and to hear people all around you speaking German.
The day after I caught a train by myself to München. I caught an ICE (Intercity Express) the fastest train in the German fleet. They are so comfortable and great. If only Australia had such a great transport system... When I arrived on the platform I didn't know where to meet them, so I waited and then went to the entrance. There they were, with a gingerbread heart welcoming me to Munich. The car was parked on the four floor and to get down you needed to take a car elevator, just shows you how advanced Germany is. The city centre of Munich is so packed and impossible to get out of, but once we did get out of there, it didn't take long to get to the farm.
My first impression was that they lived in all of the different buildings. We arrived at the duck pond and we had to make all the ducks go into the cage. We continued driving and arrived at a large farm that has too many buildings, all lived in by the family. The main house has 30 rooms and inside there is everything you would ever need. The son of the parents, Caspar, is in Sara's class. She said she would marry him just for his library, full of antiques and not to mention that the son is named after a 16th century guy in his family.
I came to what I would be calling home for the next three months. I'm on the second floor, in a room near Sara and Vroni. Everything inside is antique in my room. Cats are absolutely everywhere. Wherever you are, there is at least one cat within 5 metres. They also have a dog and 9 horses. It is so cold down here in Bavaria. It is 2 degrees here while it's about 12 degrees in Heppenheim. It snowed earlier this week.
On Sunday we went to Max's parents to remember the passing of his auntie. She passed away 2 years ago. I met the family, Sara's family lives in California, but all of Max's family live near us. Sara and Vroni's grandfather has a really big bareyisch dialect. I can hardly understand him. The food was great and here they have both sweet and normal mustard. They had four different types on the table! The grandmother made the best apple cake, so good!! Straight afterwards we drove to a sugar beet farm where they had a display of how everything works in the industry. There was so much advertising. We spent the afternoon looking at everything. Fresh sugar beet tastes so good. Inside the factory where they build the machines that harvest the sugar beet they had seats everywhere and it looked like a mini Oktoberfest. Everywhere were people drinking and waitresses walking around carrying ten beers and then selling them all at one table. The line at the toilet was like at a women's toilet. Caramelised almonds are so great, I love them so much!!
I woke up at 6:20 for my first day of school and Sara was in there for the whole time until we left, what can you do:) I came to school and got my timetable and I was led into my first class. You probably won't believe this but the class has 21 people, of which 18 are girls!! Talk about male to female ratio. I'll post my timetable below, many more subjects and periods than in Australia. The first class was maths and the teacher was sick so we went to the computer room and did maths exercises. The school has no bells so you just look at your phone to know when the time is finished. The school it quite big and also modern. I like it, but I don't like the German school system, because for their equivalent of VCE, they get very little choice of what they do. We have to do a religion and i chose to do ethics, which is basically Philosophy, its very interesting. We had 7 periods so we went to the Mensa, which is the canteen, but it's so much cheaper and better and it is the greatest place on earth. The English teacher is not great, no one likes her and me included. My mobile phone doesn't work and it's really frustrating. When I arrived at the train station I had to be picked because the bus to our house only comes once and I couldn't take it because I had 7 periods.
My coordinator came to us after school She is also Vroni's German tutor. The family have known her for a while so it was not completely awkward. She congratulated me on my German, said it was very good. Afterwards I spent a while trying to fix my phone, and nothing worked.
On Tuesday I did the whole trip - bus to the train station, train and then walk to school, just to be in time for class. Sometimes we can be late and some teachers are understanding, but some get very angry. Therefore on friday we get dropped off at school because Sara has such an angry teacher.
I have started to remember people's names and I am beginning to notice who is friends with each other and who isn't. Some of my classes I have changed today because I don't do Latin, so I can help the younger classes with English. I got the impression from the timetable organizer, Herr Holzmann, that he doesn't really like art, because he told me that I shouldn't do it, WIN!! After school I followed Tato's instructions to unlock my mobile phone We are in the country so the Internet isn't great. I had to update and it took most of the afternoon to do. But now my mobile phone works!! Sara doesn't get any reception around here but I get reception nearly everywhere. I am sitting at the table with two cats sleeping, Taco - the kitten and the cat that she thinks is here mother. She tries to drink milk from her.
Any other questions fire away in the comments section
Thanks dad for calling Telstra and unlocking
Anton
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