school...sorta

Hey there...ok, I know that everyone wants me to send pictures of my family but I havent had a chance to take pictures of them when i actually remember. Soon I will though. Oh, and one more thing i forgot to mention about cars: everyone drives VW´s, audi´s, BMW´s, and Mercedes´. The Krüger´s have a VW passat and a VW polo, both the wagon style.

Anyway...I went to school today. It was cold outside and foggy again and i accidentally slept in. I set my alarm for 5:40 but forgot that it didnt have snooze like mine at home so when i turned it off it never went off again. typical me....And breakfast was to be at 6:30 (things are more formal here in the eating aspect...everyone eats together). So Stefanie came in at 6:30 and I was still sleeping. oops. So i got up and went and ate and then got ready quick because we were leaving at 7:10. Scheffel Gymnasium doesnt have a huge campus like Foothill, it goes up and down. There is one level about half underground and then (Ah the sun just came out!!)there are 3 others. So 4 altogether. And its 12 classrooms long i believe and 2 wide, plus a hall. And then there is another building that is a little different and i think has probably about 2/3 the classrooms as the big one. There are 1100-1200 students, grades 5-13. And those little kids are obsessed with running up the stairs. Every time they have to go up or down the stairs or down the halls, they run. I am surprised i didnt see any fall and take others down with them. Manfred and I had to wait to see the school director, so that took about 30 minutes. Then we had to fill something out and wait another 30 minutes to be told that it would be an hour until we could make my schedule because we had to wait for one of the 12th grade teachers to be out of class. Then it was another 10 minutes after that and then 15 in his office deciding my classes. And then i made it for the last minute of Deutschstunde (German class). I was introduced and the other students whispered and whatnot. I have never been a new kid before, it was weird...especially when i have no idea what everyone is saying. Right when the bell rang a girl jumped up to me (i had recognized her from earlier walking by and thought she was dressed cute) and started talking to me and seemed really interested with me. Kinda like how I was back in the USA whenever I met exchange students. haha. Her name is Katie (i havent a clue if that´s spelled right), but pronounced caw-tea. She walked with me to my next class and showed me where it was.

The next was a 2 period class of ''Politik.'' (Oh, and for everyone that reads Harry Potter...i dont think of it as 2 periods of politics, more like ''double politics!!!'' Muhuhahah. And i have double Deutsch (hah that sounds cool) and double spanish, and double sport.....i could go on and on...). And so I pretty much didnt understand anything that the teacher said, and i dont remember his name either. Actually I dont think I ever even knew it to begin with. I took notes off what he wrote on the board but i think that half the stuff i wrote is most like spelled wrong. I could hardly read his handwriting and the fact that is was in german made it more difficult....I did here him say ''George w. Bush'' and ''Richard Nixon'' and ''Bill Clinton'' and ''winner takes all.'' Guess thats political lingo world wide.

After that we came home. I guess the first day is always short. I get my schedule tomorrow so i will name my classes tomorrow or something. Hmm so that's it I suppose....