Everything else
Ok, I haven't posted anything since the start. So to save saliva when I get back, I'll try my best to get everything here. So it'll be in point form.
1) I'm staying with the Waßmuths. Lena is my host. She is a brother and 2 sisters. Her father, Hans Waßmuth is the mayor of Rosenthal, the town I'm staying in.
2) Its a big family. The second day, I was taken to a christianing of a cousin and a grandfather's birhtday. Large, really large turn out. Her mom has 8 other siblings. The children were very sweet.
3) The towns in the country are very pretty. They all look the same though. Just like cities all over the world look the same. One can recognise a church immediately. They're all the same style, colour, size, and everything else. The framehouses are all the same too. So unless you live in a certain town, you wounld't be able to differentiate them.
4) The air is very fresh, though it is sometimes flavoured with whiffs of horse manure.
5) Mornings are always cold. So far, there's only been 3 really nice and warm days where one can survive with one layer the whole day. All other days require 2 layers at one time or another. Rains rather frequently. Learnt that this isn't always the case. Last year's summer was ncie and really warm.
6) Have bread for most breakfasts. Occassionally we have cornflakes. And it's milk every morning. (which i like) All they seem to drink here is apple juice and really gassy water. 50% allpe juice and 50% gassy water taste a tiny little bit like champagne, though its still rather far from it. Lunch is usually pasta or something to do with potatoes. Once we had rice that tasted like pasta. I called it cheese rice. Dinner is the same as breakfast. Bread or cornflakes. But it doesn't really get boring. The variety of spreads is wonderful.
7) We go to school in Frankenberg by bus. First, we meet with two neighbours; left and right. Then, its a 5 minutes walk to the bus-stop in freezing morning air. After a 15 minutes bus ride, its another 10 minutes walk to school.
8) School is rather small, comparatively. 2 buildings for 8 grades. Its rather old too. But its nice.
9) No one wears school uniform to school. Its cool. And though they aren't really fashion geeks; they wear the same clothes for consecetive days, they're tastes are still good. More opt for jeans and a chic top.
10) We don't bathe everyday here. About 3 times a week. But 'the air here is very clean, so you won't get as smelly as you would in Singapore.' said my teacher.
11) We have 2 teachers for 4 periods. Our teacher who came with us from Sg, Frau Östlund, takes us for the first two periods then Frau Englert, a very nice women, takes us for the next two.
12) Theres this other teacher from the Ederhtalschule, Frau Kinsel. At first she SEEMED nice. But as she came to visit you everyday, you'll find that she's an over-bearing, domineering and paranoid women.
13) Guess what? Theres a smoking corner in the school. There are cigarette dispensers all over the streets. Thank goodness the air here is really really fresh.
14) Frist day at school we went for a tour of Frankenberg. Very beautiful. The town-house, the church, the cobble streets, the scenary...
15) Went to Pfingsmarkt. Celebrating pentacost. Its like a pasar malam. But its a rather big thing here as its only held during pentacost for 5 days.
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