School
Obviously this is the funnest part of my exchange, going to school, but it´s not all bad. I have to wake up in the morning at about 6:45 and eat and get ready by about 7:30 which is no problem. After that Mark and I usaslly bike to school which only takes 15 mins or so. IT a weird thing to see hundreds of kids biking at the same time but its also alot of fun. Since the senior year ends in April instead of June I've been placed into what here they call Q1 or the eleventh grade. All of the classes are taught in german, so with knowing very little german my class participation at always perfect as you can imagine. English class on the other hand may just be the best class ever.

The outside of my school is actually pretty ugly

Gym class is super different from in the US, instead of being organized by just grade level students choose a sport. The choices are badmitton, volleyball, basketball, handball, soccer and dance. There may also be others that I'm just forgetting.

For my first soccer class we mostly just scrimmaged and played futsal but this week when I went to class they told us we would have to take part of a fitness test. In the US this means running half a mile or doing some situps but much to my pleasure we were all forced to run a 5k. Despite the fact that I really dislike running I some how managed to finish in 22mins and first in my group.

Other than that the only difference between german highschool and those in the US are that german ones are more like college. You go if you have a class, nobody checks up on you when you don't and if a teacher is sick or so you don't go to their class. Keeping that in mind the first week of school I had about one class a day, because of their so called chaos week were most the teachers go on trips (which I have no arguments against).