After my regular updates of the first week in Berlin, my silence in the second week has more to do with just being busy in school than anything else. Today marks the end of the first full week living with host families in Bargteheide and attending classes at the Kopernikus Gymnasium. It came as no giant surprise to me that I saw a lot of bewildered faces a little overwhelmed by trying to process the German that was coming at that so quickly, but by the end of the week I was really hearing and seeing some progress with the kids´ ability to use the language to communicate. We had one and only one field trip the whole week -- our tour of the Steinway & Sons factory in Hamburg where we saw the process of building a grand piano from start to finish, from the wood storage/drying shed all the way to small rooms with advanced technicians fine-tuning the instruments for shipping. Following the tour, we went back to Downtown Hamburg, had an outdoor lunch while watching World Cup news, then headed for the Hamburg Rathaus, a mammoth building in the heart of the city, not far from Lake Alster and the canals. Then we set them free and agreed to meet back at the train station.
In the upcoming week we have a lot more trips planned, so there will be more to report and more pictures to share. We just got the school to unblock access to our blog, so hopefully we can put a little time into uploading some content for you to read and see.
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