This was the last week of summer vacation for Baden-Württemburg. My state is one of the last to start school; states in the north started in the first days of September! I'm pretty sure Bayern starts school tomorrow too.
On Tuesday we woke up early and went to Ludwigsburg to see the Schloss. Clara and I walked around the garden in the front for a while, and we thought there wasn't anything else to see. But when we were walking towards the exit, we saw a map of the Schloss and apparently there was a giant garden in the back! They had a "Fliegen" pumpkin exhibit, and had a bunch of things related to flying made out of pumpkins, like space ships and planes. There was also a Märchengarten, which was for kids. It had little houses that played recorded fairytales, like Snow White and Cinderella. It was really cute!
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| Ludwigsburg Schloss |
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| The back (maybe it was the front?) of the Schloss |
Wednesday was pretty uninteresting, but on Thursday Clara and I went to work with Susanne! She teaches German as a foreign language (which is what I want to do with English!!) at a school nearby. Since school hadn't started yet, we just helped her set up the classroom. Later Clara and I took the train home, and we rode our bikes to the next town over. There's a church on the top of a ginormous hill, and we climbed all the way to the top of it. It took ages, but the view from the top was beautiful, and you could see really far away! After dinner that night we watched Howl's Moving Castle, thankfully with German subtitles. It was a really cute movie, and I understood a lot! Ghibli movies usually aren't too complicated, and the subtitles really helped.
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| The view from the church |
On Friday we all went to Karlsruhe and Clara and Andreas played street music. Clara plays the harp, and Andreas plays the flute. They were pretty good, and made almost 30 Euros! After dinner Clara and I went back to Karlsruhe to meet one of her friends, Anna-Lena, at a bar. We didn't order any alcohol; just some fruit drink. Anna-Lena is really nice, and she likes k-pop too :) Later we went to the movies and saw Hitman: Agent 47. It was really weird, and Clara said it was terrible. It was dubbed in German so they had to talk pretty fast, and I didn't really understand anything at all. I couldn't tell who was the bad guy and who was the good guy the entire time, and people kept dying! It probably wouldn't've made much more sense in English. One weird thing was that popcorn here is sweet, not salty. Clara and Anna-Lena said pretty much nobody in Germany likes salty popcorn. It tasted good, but I wasn't expecting it!
We cleaned the whole house on Saturday after breakfast, and then Clara and I went to school to see if the class lists were posted. I'm in class 11a, and there's 93 people in my grade! It's not an outrageous number, but still a lot more than Centreville. I'm actually kind of excited for school; I miss having friends!! I like Clara's friends, but hanging out with them makes me miss mine back home.
Today was the last day of vacation, and we went to Bruchsal for the Heimatstage parade! Every Landkreis (kind of like a county) was represented, and almost every single one had a marching band and a group in traditional clothing. It was a lot of fun, and really interesting to see all the different places from Baden-Württemburg! Each Landkreis was similar, but different at the same time. There was an Asparagus Queen, real lederhosen, a float handing out fresh apple juice, and even a float giving out some kind of alcohol. I'm still moving the pictures from my phone to my computer (I took almost 300...), so those will be added later.
School starts at 8am tomorrow, and judo starts tomorrow too!
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