Tuesday: We're going Joe hunting

Final disclaimer: Still Wednesday, still typing, still going from my rusty memory.

Today was the first official day in the classrooms for all of us. My group consisted of me, Sarah and Drew. We have the lightest schedule on Tuesdays, as we only have 1 class, the 7th grade theater, for one hour. So, after crawling out of bed in order to leave by 7-ish, everyone began our official journey as Study Abroad Interns! Woo!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, after a much shorter commute (it's still about an hour), we all arrived at our schools and began the day. My group's first impression was that students here seem very similar to those in America. When we first arrived at the primary school, LB, there were students running around the courtyard, playing, talking with friends, just being kids. We met one of our host teachers and waited for the students to report to us once the bell rang to begin school. We went to the classroom where we were introduced to the students officially and they began work on scene from the Tempest. The three of us exercised our teaching ability and helped some students who were not in the scene run some lines instead. Soon enough, the hour was up, class was done, and we were done for the day! We decided to spend some time around the city. We re-visited Notre Dame, went hat window shopping, and got some more Euros. We decided to go home and rest before our lunch date with a couple Georgia people. While waiting for the bus to take us back towards the chateau, we see Joe get off the bus across the street with Itzel, another Georgian, who were heading to class. We shouted a quick hello, loaded the bus, then returned home to have some shenanigans around the chateau. At the appointed time, we met with Liz and Emily (georgia) and headed back into town. On our way, we ran into Joe (sighting #2) and dragged him along for lunch as well. All 6 of us spent some time in town hanging out before returning to the chateau. The Georgians had a class, which was eventually cancelled, so the five of us (no Joe) went for a bike ride around the grounds. This was a much more intense bike ride. We went off the beaten path, saw some WW2 bunkers (which I took a piece of for Dad), saw Germany across the river, got muddy and randomly ran into Joe (#3) who was on a run. At this point I can tell my weekly work-outs with Brandon are helping, as I am in much better shape that I thought.

Anyway, we returned to the chateau where the WVU-ans had another family dinner provided by our Emily and Casie. Then came the fun times and we spent the rest of the evening making plans/ordering tickets for our free weekends. They are as follows:

March 22-24: Stay around Strasbourg. Possible day-trip on the 23rd
March 29-April 1: Easter in Paris!!!
April 5-8: Munich then Frankfurt.

A few card games later, it was off to bed for another day of teaching.



School observations:
not much today. Students are very good at speaking English. They act as any 7th grader in the USA would, in my opinion. I am already learning a few students' names. Our first host teacher is BRITISH! ACCENT AND ALL!!! WOO!!!! She's pretty cool. The students seem to have more respect for her and listen to her, though they are as hyper as any 13-ish years old kids normally are.