Hey everyone! 

So this is my last week in Germany. This week is going to packed full. Today I have been relaxing and getting my self ready for this week and getting some school work done. Tomorrow is a day of school for me. Wednesday in the morning we are going to visit a school, we will be visiting a combined middle school and high school which over here is called a realaschule and a gymnasium. The second half of Wednesday I will be in class again. Thursday I will be going into the town of Stuttgart to get some last minute souvenirs as well as to see all of the holiday decorations. They have a holiday market over here that opens in middle of November with a whole bunch of little shops and an ice skating rink and holiday decorations are set up everywhere. Friday I will be packing and cleaning up the room I have been staying in. On Saturday I come home. We will be leaving here super early, 12:30pm Friday night/Saturday morning your time which is 6:30 in the morning Germany time. I will be landing in Charlotte on Saturday afternoon. :) 

Hope everyone has a great rest of your week I will post and update about the school visit in the afternoon on Wednesday and then I might have one more post after that otherwise my next post will be once I land back home in Charlotte. 

See you all soon! :) 

- Miss. Kim 

Hi everyone, 

This weekend I went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I just got back last night after being on a train for 12 hours because of layovers on the way back. It was a long day with trains but I have made it back safely to my room. In Amsterdam  I stayed on the 20th floor of a hotel that was located on the water, the view out of the window was amazing. We saw all of the boats pull into the harbor and we were able to see some of the large windmills around the harbor. 

We took a guided boat tour through the canals of Amsterdam, which was really neat to learn about the history and see things that you can't always see while walking the streets. Some of the people in Amsterdam live in boat houses which is literally a house on the water, it has two levels and the inside looks just like a house that we live in. It was neat to see how the people live. 
After the tour we stopped and visited the Van Gogh museum. Van Gogh is a famous painter who lived in Amsterdam. Then we visited the Anne Frank house. Anne Frank was alive during World War 2 and this house was where her and her family were in hiding during the war, they were hiding from the Nazi government. The family was found and they went sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. The concentration camp is similar to the one that I was able to visit in Dachau. 

Then on Sunday, SinterKlauss arrived in Amsterdam. Sinter Klauss is like Santa Claus but he arrives on November 13th from Spain on a boat and then he stays in Amsterdam until December 5th. While he stays in Amsterdam he visits schools and talks with children. He also visits local children's hospitals and talks with the kids. 

Look at the pictures for some pictures from Amsterdam! :) 

I come home on Saturday, I will update again later today with everything about my last week in Germany! 

- Miss. Kim

Hola! 

I landed back in Germany safely from Spain last night. Spain was a lot of fun, we were able to go the beach and see the sand and the beach there is the Balearic Sea which leads into the Mediterranean sea. It was awesome to see a beach in an European country. It looked the same as american beach just a different shore line. We also visited the Pablo Picasso museum, he was a Spanish painter. We were able to see the church and buildings that were designed by the famous Spanish architect Guadi. 

We also visited the aquarium while we there as well as we saw the monument statue that was built in honor of Christopher Columbus, a famous explorer from the 1800's. 

You can see the pictures posted under the pictures link. 

Hope you are all doing well. I am going to Amsterdam this Friday through Sunday and then I will be back in Stuttgart, Germany until I leave to come back to North Carolina next Saturday. I will update again soon! 

See you all soon! :) 

Hi everyone!