Dritte Tag

Today was Friday the third day. I woke up at 6:15 (I slept a bit better) and had my "Exact" ten minutes in the shower. They have no real shower curtains here, only a door that dosenät go all the way to the tub, so I have to cram in a towel. The shower also only comes up to my neck (Which is better than Sarah's, because she said hers only comes up to her neck, but I can't get it any higher, as it is broken. Talking to the other GAPPers, this seems to be a standard complaint. It will just take some time to get used to.

We went to the school, met first hour as we will be, and went over observations and vocab. I pointed out how the night before a stranger had adressed Max's dad with the informal "du" instead of the formal "sie" when Max's dad parked on his sidewalk. Not a very nice thing, I think.

We then had an hour of "Deutsch" class, which was actually history instead of language this day. We were going over an excerpt from Heinrich Himmler's journal. It was very intersting to see the Germans react (they seemed compleatly normal, like any normal American student). After that, we went to Computer Science for two hours, but the teacher didn't show up until the last ten minutes. Really. The whole class played internet games and tried to break thier blocking software the whole time.

Then, I went to philosophy class with Mia (Max's girlfriend and Angie's partnerin [adding -in in German denotes a female]) while Max took his English exam. We worked on a German article about the learning of language in small groups, but my group (and, I think, the others) scewed around for half an hour and did all the work in five minutes. I couldn''t understand a word of it.

After that we had English class- this was a bit easier. They were reading some wierdo short story and the teacher was just making up stuff about the story. But hey, I geuss you can learn English whether or not the teacher said a story set in New York was in Scotland. I'm sure our German teachers do the same thing (a sentence for you, Herr Anderson).

We didn't have lunch at school but went home. We ate lunch, which was very big, as the Lorenzes eat very a large lunch and very little dinner (except Mr. Lorenz, who eats his lunch for dinner when he gets home from work). We watched a bit of Pirates of the Carribbean, and looked at some funny videos on Youtube. I showed Max "Charlie the Unicorn".

In the evening, max had to go to a church program where he would stay the night. I'm not sure what it's called "auf Englisch", but it's something that he's been doing for a year and can't stop or all his work over the last year would be "useless".

Oh, I discovered that we use the same shampoo when I couldn't find mine where I put it. Max took mine with him to church.

In the evening, I watched part of a German comedy called "Die Wixxe". It was really funny in the Hot Fuzz kind of way. I need to buy a copy and bring it back. Just to give you an idea- it's about two police inspectors trying to catch a criminal in a skull mask and who has a darth vader voice. The criminal operates out of castle "black and white", where the movie goes into black and white, because the castle is "the oldest in England" and hasnn't been upgraded to color. Oh, Adolf Hitler is the butler.

It's harder to write in Englisch. I keep wanting to put in German phrases. I might just relapse and write the entire blog auf Deutsch.

Bis Morgen,
Robert

I didn't take any pictures today, as I didn't take my camera to school. More tommrow.