Uh oh...

I knew schooling in Europe was tough, I didn't expect this!!

I thought they'd put me in easier classes .. this is my schedule for school

:* note: the times are different, some classes are 2 hours long and some are just one hour long.

Monday - 7 55 am - 9 40 am = Gym

- 9 40am - 11 30 am = Economics

- 11 30 am - 12 25 pm = Study hall

- 12 25pm - 1 20 pm = LUNCH :)

- 1 20 pm - 3 10 pm = Math

Then I get to go home.

Tuesday - 7 55 am - 9 40 am = German

- 9 40 am - 10 40 am = Chemistry

- 10 40 am - 11 30 am = French

- 11 30 am - 12 25 pm = LUNCH :)

- 12 25 pm - 2 15 pm = Biology

- 2 15 pm - 4 05 pm = Music

Then I get to go home.

Wednesday - 7 55 am - 8 45 am = German

- 8 45 am - 9 40 am = History

- 9 40 am - 11 30 am = English ♥

Then I get to go home !

Thursday - 7 55 am - 9 40 am = CA (Not sure what that is yet, I'll change this once I know)

- 9 40 am - 11 30 am = Geography

- 11 30 am - 12 25 pm = LUNCH :)

- 12 25 pm - 2 15 pm = Gym

- 2 15 pm - 4 05 pm = Biology and Chemistry Disections

Then I get to go home.

Friday - 7 55 am - 9 40 am = German

- 9 40 am - 10 40 am = Math

- 10 40 am - 12 25 pm = Biology

- 12 25 pm - 1 20 pm = LUNCH :)

- 1 20 pm - 2 15 pm = English

- 2 15 pm - 3 10 pm = History

- 3 10 pm - 4 55 pm = French(long day!! )

Then I go home.

I think it'll be really hard to get in the swing of things at my school.

It's very different than in Canada, I only have 4 subjects per semester and it's a LOT smaller. Gymnasium Muttenz is on a campus, almost like university. There are 3 different schools on this campus from what I understand: a college type school, my school and a school that people go to if they know what they want to do after the age of 16. It's more specific, like if you want to go into engineering, you go to that school. I guess that's like a university for younger people?? It's really confusing. Nonetheless, it's HUGE!

I'll give a few examples, the cafeteria is not only MASSIVE, it's its own building. Upstairs cafeteria is for snacks with a bunch of homemade yummy stuff, and the downstairs cafeteria is for meals. It shows different plates and you choose which plate you want, or you can do make it your own salad (I hope I stick with that, or this will be an interesting year! ) The gyms are nice, not sure how many there are but it also has it's own building with different stories (and it's just for my school.) There are TEN gym teachers!!!I can't even begin to explain it!!

I have only been there for one day since I had a free day from my German course. I am still attending my German course until September 9th or something like that. To be honest, I'm really nervous for when I actually start going to classes. Every day is TOTALLY different and I have to not only travel from class to class aimlessly, I have to travel from building to building!!!It's going to definitely be an interesting few

weeks when I start school, atleast Lily taught me how to say 'help' in German, before I left- that's going to be VERY useful! I'll keep you updated with my first days of school once they start!My German is coming along nicely, luckily. I am starting to understand it and I have come to the point where I told my family to only speak German when talking to me, and I try to answer back in German. If I don't understand, they help me out (which is quite often) but more and more it's getting easier. German is NOT an easy language to learn.. some words may be similar but the sentence structure is so hard. Every noun is either die, der or das and you have to memorize each thing !! For example, die Ture is the door... EVERYTHING is one of the three and you just have to memorize it. Also, the endings are different just like we learnt in French class. The endings of the verb change... ahhh!!

I'll get the hang of it eventually !

Everything is still AMAZING here, I'm just living the dream :)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
-Albert Einstein .

I'll use this one a lot during class ;)