Long time, no blog...
Mom sent me this a few weeks ago, but between my trips to Copenhagen and Prague, as well as Jordan's visit and a particularly nasty cold I haven't gotten around to posting. Here, though, is mom's take on their trip here. We had a fantastic time! (PS: I posted pictures at the bottom... check them out too!)
Mom sent me this a few weeks ago, but between my trips to Copenhagen and Prague, as well as Jordan's visit and a particularly nasty cold I haven't gotten around to posting. Here, though, is mom's take on their trip here. We had a fantastic time! (PS: I posted pictures at the bottom... check them out too!)
Jack and I got home last week from our trip to Germany and Austria. It was a fantastic vacation and we saw so many new places. One of the highlights of our trip to Germany was visiting the Berlin Brandenburg International School! We were very excited to see the school, Ashley’s classroom, students and all the people she works with at BBIS. Ashley has been telling us about her new life in Germany. It was great to finally meet everyone we have been hearing about since July. The BBIS campus is larger than I imagined with many buildings. Jack and I followed the students as they walked to music class and then at their first fire drill! (Always an exciting event.) The grade two classes are located in another building so the children followed their teachers out of their building and around the campus to the playground area to meet all the other elementary classes. We were introduced to the principal, Mark at the fire drill but due to the situation just said hello and thanked him for his support of Ashley in her new teaching position at BBIS. During the morning meeting, Miss Reser introduced us to her students and they seemed surprised that Miss Reser HAD parents! They asked us if we spoke German and we both said, “Nein”. One little girl said, “Yes, you speak German, because ‘Nein’ means ‘no’ in German!” Another child asked where we lived and I told them ‘Ohio’ and then said, “What’s round on the ends and high in the middle?” Ashley wrote ‘OHIO’ on the board and they were very interested in that. Several boys asked if we would play football with them at recess and Jack said, “Sure!” We had such a great morning at school, but wanted the children to focus on school work, we got ready to leave. Ashley asked the kids for some suggestions of where we should go in Berlin, several kids said, “To the Berlin Zoo to see Knut, the ice bear!” Some other suggestions were to go to the Victory Column in Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate. Thanks to our tour guide guru, Rick Steves we had taken his ‘on your own’ tour the day before and seen most of the student recommendations. We left Germany the next morning and were sad to leave Ashley but look forward to having her at home for Christmas! By the way, we are already planning a return to Europe in the very near future. ☺
Trapped in Rothenburg!
MMMMM Marzipan! (gag)
Car trouble had us trapped when we should have been seeing the hills of Austria.
Awesome apple strudle with vanilla sauce. (Incredible!)
