10 January 2008

The English translation of Elizabeth's earlier German Class Message

Hallo Americans!

How are you all? I'm loving it here (as you know) and if I could I'd invite you all to join me. But we only have space for 4 people, who's coming? I was in Vienna for a week in November and saw a cabaret called "4 nach 40" (4 after 40) which was soooo funny. I also saw the royal treasure that was very beautiful and I even saw the crypt.
The school here is really something different from Westside. For instance, teachers have pretty much no room and kids aren't allowed into the room where teachers go between classes. They all sit in a room about as big as one of our art rooms (pottery). The teachers are also ALWAYS late to class. Now for the pictures!

First of all my school, called: "Bundes-Gymnasium Ried"

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The bicycle area

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My classroom
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Our blackboard, the two green ones move up down and sideways, it's so cool!

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Each room has these yellow blinds that completely block out
sun, they also have cloth curtains as well though.

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The sport area, check out all the soccer nets

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And it seems, a rockclimbing wall o.o

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This sign is cooler than ours, and at the end of the child zone
there's another that reads "danke"(thank you) much more polite than ours.

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Billa and Hofer, two supermarkets.

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Hofer, also exists in America. There are three in the Omaha area. but they are called Aldi. Aldi bought Hofer but left the name as it was.

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Eurospar is another supermarket, I went inside look to see what I found.

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Here's a machine that collects bottles much like our can machines.

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M&m's next to german chocolate!? You don't see me complaining

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How American? Halloween next to Christmas..

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Here is our brewery, it's about 100m from the school.

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Jesus is everywhere, shrines in the oddest places, something different from America.

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This gumball machine holds minilighters AND miniknives. Again, not
more than 110m from school.

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I tried it.. this is all I got.. broken even =(

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Gun store, 160m from the school.

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Christmas decorations were already in the streets but not yet in houses.

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Christmas tree!

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Town hall

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New films

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The church but I'm not allowed to take pictures inside, it's gorgeous =(

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What?! Look, no graffiti!

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This hole looks to me like the United states (only a little)

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This is my walk home, some is with snow because I took the pictures at another time.

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Here is that same bridge again I'm walking towards it..
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Till recently all of this was covered in trees, don't know why they
were cut down o.o.
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Again, no Graffiti!
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There were trees here too.
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I live at the top ^^
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Nothing keeps me from going out onto the tracks
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A train ^^
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A public swimming pool it's right behind my house
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My snowman melted =(.
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Our "kacheloven"(sort of a heater oven, thing) Always has enough wood from Georg's furniture factory.
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Lastly my cute little host cousin.

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Yeah a little boring, but, informative ^^
Hope to hear from you all soon, be safe!

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