Christmas in 10 days!

This morning was a nice day, I was meant to sleep in until 10am, but I decided to wake up at 9am anyway. I came downstairs, made myself breakfast and wrote a letter to a friend in Australia. I got ready for school and then had extra time, so I wrote more of my letter. Julia and I caught the train to school and then walked there.

Most of the other kids had language classes during that period, but we walked up to our classroom with some other friends and sat outside. There was a French class in the room and they were making crepes. Our room smelt like crepes for the rest fo the day.

We had History next and we went into the room during our 20 minute break. We sat in our spots and talked. During our History class, we watched a DVD about German history and some of the background of the Kings that they had. I ended up listening to the film and drawing in my notebook.

For our next class, we had to walk to the science rooms and up all of the steps to the Chemistry classrooms. Our teacher was running a little bit late, and we ended up in a different classroom to last time. It was like one of those lecture rooms, with teared seating, except it was a tiny room. The students got their tests back that they had done 2 weeks ago and then our Chemistry teacher, who is our homeroom teacher too, handed out the Secret Santa presents. Lots of people weren't there, so it was bit complicated.

We got out of class a little bit early and Molly and I caught the bus to the main train station. We saw Hannah at the train station and she stayed with us until we had to catch our train. She was waiting for a friend before coming home. We caught the train with some of the other girls in our village.

When Molly and I came home, Julia's mum and brother were home. Lunch was nearly finished and we helped finish the salad and set the table. We ate potatoes, pork chops and salad.

Paul's cute snow flake decorations.

Julia's aunty came over and had coffee with us, then another family friend too. We all sat at the table and talked. I decided it was about time that I started making Christmas present, so I made some bowls out of vinyl records for Julia's 'sort of' uncle. Everyone was really surprised at how they worked out, but it is my secret.

Everyone left after an hour or so and it was time to get dressed and leave for the Christmas concert. We planned on catching the train into near school, but when we got to the train station, there was no train. We quickly walked home and got driven into the middle of Marburg. We got soft drinks from the supermarket and then chicken burgers from McDonalds. (Julia's favourite... We don't have them in Australia. They have sweet chilli sauce in them...) We missed all the buses to near school and would have had to wait. Julia voted that we walked because it really wasn't too far. We walked and it was quite nice, except for the cold. We arrived just on time and saw some of our friends who were either helping out or performing.

We sat down and watched the different year 5 band play and sing, then slowly the older kids, the choir and the bands. There was a break in the middle and we talked to some friends and ate pretzels. Another exchange student from Canada was playing trombone in one of the bands. At the end of the concert everyone sung 'O du Fröhliche', there was words on a screen, except they were too small to read. Molly and I sat there while everyone sang.

We caught the train home from near the school. The walk there and the train ride was quite entertaining, there was a lot of christmas coral singing along the way. We came home quite late and I watched television with Julia and her dad for a while before going to bed.