Boo! Happy Halloween!
It is Halloween! :) I arrived back in Stuttgart last night from Paris, France. While in France I visited the Effel tower, Notre Dame, the aquarium, the Louve and versailles as well as many other places. I had a crepe from a street stand was delicious. I am currently working on uploading pictures and updating this website for you! Today I am going to explore the town of Stuttgart, where I am staying. There are many little shops and things to explore. Tonight the group of us studying over here is going to our professors apartment for some american dinner and then we are attending a costume party where eight of us will be dressed as Snow White and the seven Dwarfs. (pictures will be posted) Tomorrow is a holiday in Germany and I will be visiting the Mercedes museum which is about 30 minutes from where I am staying. I will post pictures of that as well.
Last week Thursday we made a school visit to Erdmanhausen, which is an elementary school about an hour from our dorms. The school is named after the author of Pippi longstocking. Pictures were already posted with captions to tell you about the school. The way things are taught is different as well as the way students act in the hallway. When going to lunch or recess or anywhere outside of their classroom they don't have to walk in lines or be quiet in the hallway. The school motto is let kids be kids. That motto is definitely in effect at the school. It was interesting to watch the students travel in the hallway and interact at recess.
I hope everyone is doing well. I will be back to the states in 20 days! see everyone soon! :)
- Miss. Kim
Hey everyone!
So the train strike that was happening here is over. The trains will be running normally which is good because tomorrow I am going to visit an elementary school in Germany. We will be visiting Edmunnhausen school, which is an elementary school that was based off of the book about pippy longstocking. I will take pictures to show you what a German classroom and students look like. Pictures will be posted probably on Monday or Tuesday. I will also be posting pictures from my week in London, Rome, Venice and Milan. Tomorrow night after the school visit I will be taking the bullet train to Paris, France. The bullet train is a train that goes up to 200 miles per hour. I will be leaving Germany around 7:00pm and getting to Paris about 10:00pm tomorrow night. I will make sure to take pictures of Paris and upload those as well on Tuesday.
I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and a great weekend. I will be posting again on soon and pictures will be up Monday or Tuesday.
There are only 24 days left on my adventure in Europe, I will keep everyone updated on where I am traveling to next.
See you guy soon! :)
Hey everyone!
I hope you are all doing well. I just got back from a week of traveling through Europe. I visited many places. I started out last Saturday flying to London, England. I visited London until Wednesday then I took a plane to Rome Italy where I stayed for two days and then I took a train to Venice Italy staying for two days and then I finally ended the week in Milan Italy and came back to Stuttgart today. I was able to see many different landmarks and famous places though my travels (pictures will be posted soon).
In London I visited many different places.
- We did a guided tour of the city
- Abbey Road (famous from the Beatles album cover)
- The changing of the guard (Buckingham Palace)
- Tower Bridge (London Bridge)
- Tower of London
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- Shakespeare's Globe
- The London Eye (I rode it all the way to top, there was an awesome view of the city of London at the top)
- Big Ben (the clock Tower)
- Buckingham Palace
- Kensington Palace ( where princess Diana stayed)
- Marble Arch
- Madame Tussauds ( a wax museum where there were famous people made out of wax, some of them looked so real it was scary. Pictures will be posted soon)
- Trafalgar Square
- Went in the London Dungeon
- walked through Piccadilly circus (not an acutal circus, but a square with a bunch of small shops in it)
In Italy I also visited many places
Rome:
- Did a guided tour of the city
- The Vatican ( a church)
- The Colosseum (the arena where they had gladiator fights back in medival times)
- Trevi Fountain (thousands of people go there daily to through a penny into the fountain and make a wish)
- The Pantheon
Venice:
- Took a Gondola Ride (like a canoe)
- Did a ghost tour at night on Saint Marks island
- Visited Saint Marks island
Milan:
- Guided tour of the city
- The mall where fashion week had occurred a few years ago.
- The original painting of The Last Supper
As you can see I was able to visit many places during the ten days I had available to travel. I will be posting pictures soon. As for now I am heading off to bed to wake up for class early tomorrow morning. There is a U-Bahn (germany subway) and Bus strike in Stuttgart so I will be walking to the nearest train stop about 35 minutes to catch the train to get to class in the morning.
This week all 16 of us students will be making our first trip to a German elementary school. I will post on how that is.
Thursday night I am leaving Germany by Train to travel to France and see Paris with the famous Eiffel Tower.
Hope everyone has a great rest of your week and keep checking for pictures and more updates!
See you soon! :)
Well, I have made it half way through the week. We have been working in collaboration with German college students. We have been working closely together in order to learn about how German schools are different than American schools. This is done at the university we are studying and taking classes at. There have been many similarities and differences between theories in education between the two countries. While the majority is similarities, there are a few differences such as the way children get to and from school. Overall I have learned lots and hope to be able to show you what I have learned once I get back to the states.
Starting Saturday we have a week off oThis weekend I am off to London on Saturday through Wednesday and then Wednesday through the following Monday I will be traveling within Italy. I will update when I get the chance. Hope everyone has been doing well!
See you soon! :)
We have officially been living in Stuttgart, Germany for ten days. We have done lots of traveling already, keeping ourselves busy and trying to avoid jet lag. We have already traveled to many different places. We left from Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday September 26th. When we landed in Munich, Germany it was Tuesday September 27th. Germany is six hours ahead of North Carolina, so it took some adjusting to the time difference. Once we landed we took another shorter flight to Stuttgart where we dropped off our luggage and then went on our way taking a train back to Munich. On Wednesday we went to Oktoberfest, which is a giant carnival that happens once a year at the end of September. Thursday we then went on to Dachau,Germany which is where a concentration camps is located. A concentration camp is a working camp where people were sent during World War 2 because of their religious views or family history, a lot of families were separated upon arrival of the camp. On Friday we traveled to the Zugspitze which is a mountain that is the highest point in Germany. We took a cable car to the top of the mountain and were able to eat lunch on top. I was brave enough to climb the mountain up higher than were we ate. The view was amazing. We also went to see the Neuschwanstein castle, this castle was the castle that inspired Walt Disney to create the famous Disney castle. The castle itself was home to King Ludwig the second. He never actually lived in the house as he died before the castle was finished.
Monday October third was a German Holiday, it is their reunification day between the eastern and western parts of Germany. We were able to take a tour of the Ludwigsburg castle which was really cool. There is a connection between the Ludwigsburg castle and Mecklenburg county because of the name Charlotte. Charlotte was the name of the kings mistress.
Tomorrow I am off to Cologne which is in Northern Germany. I will make another post once I get back! Hope everyone has a good weekend! :)
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