School, Manga, Birthday

Hey!

Thoguht to give a little update...

At the moment we have in school tests period! It's awful. In total there is 1-2 tests in one semester in 1 subject. 1 semester is until 17th January, well, for that day grades should be put put. Anyways, it is difficult to learn for tests, because I have so much materials to go through.. and I have to translate also, double work. Oh, also had my 1st 4h test, exciting!

So far I have done tests in: Maths, History, English, Arts, Pedagogy (Arts 4h test is in 2. weeks and Biology 2h one in 3 weeks.. somewhere is P.E also)

How test looks like:
1. Summarising text with your own words
2. Analysing text on your own knowledge + text
3. Some question you have to answer/analyse

Results? I don't know half of them. English is okei and Maths was also good.. in other subjects I have problems with languages.. it takes me just 1h to translate the whole text! Weird to confess, but I do miss Estonian tests!

Soooo, after tests usually course goes outside together! Like this Monday, after 4h English test we went bowling! Soon there will be one meeting with pedagogics class also. :)

What else. On one Saturday I went on Manga drawing course. Why not, it was free anyways and I had no plans :D Saddly I really didn't get it and because I didn't have any idea what to draw.. here is pic of me and my manga teacher Izumi:

And more, I will go next year to Poland! Last time when they were here, we got along very well and they invited me there. So I talked with my school, they talked with theirs and now I have polish host-sis Ola! See you next year! :)

And more! I have brithday next week, 18th birthday! So far, on real date, 28th, I bring some cake in school (tradition), after that have birthday caffee with some family friends (host-granny, support person and so on), after that dinner out with family, i choose the place. On Saturday I have a brithday party! So far I have invited 13 people, will see how many have time to come :)

But yeah,
have a lovely night
Enel :)

What is different?

Hey
thought to write about differences I have noticed here in Germany (doesn't go for all over the Germany! I'm sure you wont ride a bike so easily in Berlin for example)

Food:
- Bröchen/toast for breakfast and dinner
- Warm food is mostly made of: noodles, oven potatoes and vegetables
- 2xcold food, 1x warm food what is usually lunch; when lunch is cold then dinner is warm
- Lunch is usually 2 courses (main course + dessert) sometimes 3 coureses ( appetizer + main course + dessert)
- Around 3-4pm is coffee/tea + cake break
- Currywurzt (Karri "sausage") is Germans fastfood
- It's normal to have at home 1 box of water (1 box=24bottles), 1 box sprite/coca-cola/fanta and 1 box of beer

Currywurzt

Knödeln (kartulist)

Bröchen

- On Friday evnings Germans drink beer next to dinner
- Germans aren't into trying new foods
- Praying before lunch (still haven't understood the words and only in Christian family)
- Eating together
- Traditional food is "knödeln" (imagine bread or potatoes smashed into porrige and then made into little balls adding some glueish mixture so it can be stretched like rubber and knife doesn't go trough so well)


School:
- Classes start 7:55am
- One class is 2x45min with 5 min break between
- After 95mins there is 15min break
- All students from 5-10th grade MUST go outside (not when it rains or its too cold)
- No indoors shoes
- Grades go from 1-5, 1 is the best
- Counting grades are 4-6week material tests + activity in class
- Tests+activty are graded from 1-15points
- Student has 3 A-class classes, others are normal
- To pass a test in A-level you need 33,3% (5p/15p) in test/activty in class
- In Normal class it's 20% (3p/15p)
- Teacher's have bad handwriting, even German students can't understand sometimes
- Phones are FORBIDDEN in school even when it's break time, getting caught can make you lose your phone for 3 weeks
- You can plan your own timetable, 11-12th grade
- It's normal to eat and drink when it's break time, in class or even when it's a test time
- Teacher doesn't ask you when you don't rise your hand





Keeping in touch:
- Skype and Facebook aren't so popular
- Whatsapp
- If you want to connect quik, CALL!




Traffic:
- Bikes EVERYWHERE!

Kõige lahedamad rattad on sellised

- Easier to get in accident with bike
- Horse carriages are normal on street
- Bikers have pretty much same rules as car drivers; there are even road parts where bikers need to be in the middle of the road and be a "car"
- All shops and malls are in "only by foot" areas, no bikes and no cars
- Saying thank you, when someone lets you go first for example



People:
- People who you have never seen before say hello
- Being polite (f.e you step a side so biker can go by and they say always thank you)
- Everyone are smiling
- Starting converstation with random person (in restoraunt/street/cafe/shop)
- Shyness talking in other language
- Asking information about every dog you see is normal

Other things:
- Doing things with family at least 1x in a week is important
- Hobbies, hobbies, hobbies
- Grocery shopping 1 time in a week
- Tatort - German criminal show - is so in xD
- Movies and serials start at 20:15, Tageshow
- After lunch 2-3h nap time (age doesn't matter, silence hours)
- It's popular to have "sit-in" with friends. Getting together playing games, watching movies + light alchohol. Parents are usually home)
- Early to bed, early up so you can do more in one day (i dont get that one, because you do lose 2-3h with nap)
- Handiwork is cool
- If there are left-overs from eating out (f.e. half pizza) you give it to dogs
- Enough food is cooked at lunch so dogs have their own part


And that's all I can think of at the moment.. what I have noticed :)

Have a nice Sunday evning :)

Enel

LWH and more

Hi!

Haven't written for a long time, because nothing really happens... this somewhat exitment is vanishing and I am normal student in normal family :D

22-23th  October I was in Lingen, in hotel+seminar building called Ludwig Windthorst Haus. We got more information about future and what/where to study. Only thing I didn't like was one question game. Person asked a question and we had to stand in the room where our answer would be (answers were said and where to stand). Why I didn't like it was question: What religion do you have? And I had to stay all alone :D

Auditorium

 Room:

Sleep sheep :D

And of course art everywhere:

One time I got to school to early (Had to go for 5th class, got there before 4th class finished) so I took few pictures inside the school, what is a bit dangerous and risky, because we have very strict rules about mobiles used inside school, no matter if it's break or not :D
These pictures were taken after autnum break, so you see new look of the school, mostly the walls:

It is not so simple,
to jump into train of Historry,
You need to also know,
where the trip is going.
(something like this... next to history class)

Have a nice weekend :)
Enel ;)