Mondays hurt.

Today, was a Monday. That meant school and a nice early wake up... I got up at 6.30am and chucked on some clothes. I tried to get ready quickly and then go downstairs. I ate breakfast and did all the usual, then got out the door on time and walked to the train station. We caught the train with the girls from our village and then walked to school. Julia and I went straight to school and waited in the main area until the doors open. We were the first people up the stairs and sat outside the classroom. More people from our class came and then eventually our German teacher. We didn't do too much in class, she made us sit in groups of 4 and work through our stories, I got to relax a bit then. The class was only one period and finished quickly. We had a break and then the bell rang, but our always on time maths teacher wasn't there yet. She came in a little bit late and got everyone working on their tasks from last lesson in groups, after of course checking everyone's homework. They had the whole class to do that, then we had a break.

I went downstairs with Julia and we slowly made our way to art. We waited outside the class room and some other people from my class came over and talked to me. We all went in when our teacher got there, but lots of the class were away. Our teacher started talking and trying to organise a trip to the Art gallery in Marburg with the class. We eventually all decided on a date and time to be there. He put up a painting my Carravaggio and made us all talk about it and describe it, after a while, he made us get out paper and draw an outline of the figures in the painting. We got a while to do that and talked while we were doing it. After we were finished, we talked more about the lighting in the painting and then he gave us sheets with the outline already drawn and we had to shade the darker parts in. The class finished while we were doing that and we got it as homework.

I walked to the bus stop with Julia and some girls from our class. We all caught the bus and went to Ahrens to look at school folders. Julia and I left to catch our bus before anyone had decided on what to get. We caught the bus to the train station and then sat in the photobooths, waiting for about 10 minutes. We walked to our platform and then met one of the boys from our village. We caught the train together and then walked home.

When Julia and I got home, it was quite early, so we relaxed a bit and then Julia and I made pizza baguettes for our first lunch, then she got her laptop and forced me to go on because I could talk to my friends in Australia. We ate lots of mandarians and then we used skype to talk to one of my friends in Australia. The whole family met Steph and we talked for a little while. I was shocked by her accent and couldn't stop laughing for ages. We fniished our conversation when it was time to eat. We ate Julia's oma's soup that she had made us the day before... It wasn't so nice and we didn't end up eating much. We all decided that there much be some strange amount of lemon juice in the soup, but later on we found out that it had just gone sour. We all ate yoghurt to fill ourselves up a bit. I sat on the couch with Julia's mum. I got ready to go exercising, but Julia's mum and I went to Claude's first to learn how to knit the rest of a sock. We drank coffee and I learn quite a bit, then Julaia came and got me so I could go bike riding while Julia ran.

We met with two kids from our village, Svenja and Felix. Svenja and I rode bikes, while Felix and Julai ran. We had fun and ended up doing two laps of the village before eventually getting home. I went straight to Claude's after getting changed and brought her over some Tim Tams. I sat with her daughter and did some knitting while she made butteflies, then Claude came and showed me all the steps to knit. I wrote down everything and it took a while to learn it all. We finished the heel of one sock and then I went home to try it myself.

We had dinner first, which was just bread and then I continued knitting and finally finished the heel of my sock. I had a shower and then went to bed after 11pm.