We had a very eventful weekend, after exploring Heidelberg on Saturday, my cooperating teacher took me and my roommates (along with their cooperating teachers and a couple other teachers) to Schwetzingen, a city about 15 minutes away from Heidelberg for lunch!
The restaurant was very German, so naturally we had to get a beer! If I didn't know before, sharing a beer with my teacher made me even more certain that we would get along just fine!
I am determined to eat as much authentic German food while I'm here as possible, so I had goulash (not pictured) a Hefeweizen, brautwurst and sourkraut. :)
Right down the street from where we ate is a Summer Palace, it is GORGEOUS, and pink, so of course I loved it! We didn't go tour it this trip, but our teachers want to take us back in the spring to see it when the flowers have bloomed!
Here is Patrick Henry Elementary, where I will very likely be spending more of my time than anywhere else during the next 4 months. This is the main part of the building that was built in 1955 and since a lot has been added on. The school is huge and I still haven't seen the entire place!
All three of us love being here. Our teachers are wonderful and our students are great. My class had a sub for the second half of the day yesterday, but I was put "in charge" for the afternoon. Luckily There was only about an hour and a half of time I had them in the classroom (they had German class to go to) and my teacher left an easy lesson of having them go through different science stations, but it still felt great to start doing more! Tomorrow morning we will start working together to go over the morning work and I will slowly get more and more responsibility as time goes on. I am so excited and can already tell that these months are going to fly by way too fast!
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