Who would ever think I´d be excited about going to school? I can tell you for certain that kids aren´t...
I´ve just finished my second day observing in the Realschule im Alfred - Grosser Schulzentrum. (Alfred Grosser is a man famous here for his work improving the relationship between France and Germany).
I can´t say I was nervous much, more just restless to start. I have classes from every year so I get a good variety and I´m off on Fridays. In fact, most of you won´t be out of bed by the time I´ve finished teaching - I finish at either 1215 or 1115 everyday. (Thats 11.15 and 1015 to the UK!)
So yeah it´s going pretty well. I´ve been part of 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 8th Grade and 9th Grade so far. The younger ones are easily distracted but are really sweet and are determined to impress me. 8R seem petrified to even move, they barely uttered a word, and 9U who are messers are great until they´re given work to do. 9th grade do a project on Northern Ireland and so this is the class that I´ve been looking forward to, it´s kinda like GCSE level but slightly higher. They started the topic of Young People´s issues today and were doing a questionnaire so they could find out what is most important to young people. They´ll be marked on the overall project so being me I decided to walk around and help with vocabulary or give suggestions but they refused to speak. It was so funny. I think they could be a really good class, everyone loves messing around in class, so I hope they get over me being a native and just chat!
I have to say though, some of the stereotypes are true, i try to subtly correct their pronounciation but it doesn´t seem to be working. Ze boy duz not lik playing in ze garten wery much... Bless them
The only downside to school is that I start at 7.55 every morning. It kills me but only cause i´m a natural sleeper - Joel will testify to this. I´m in bed every weeknight by half ten cause i´m so tired!
In terms of settling in I´m definitely getting there! I´m meeting with the Youth Pastor of the local church tomorrow and am going to help out with the Youth Clubs and whatever I can find! I´ve been invited to a Wine festival at the weekend, as well as a tour of the walks in the forests and a trip to France for lunch. Yes, a trip to France FOR LUNCH. 
Bis bald
Dani