I bought the first Harry Potter book translated in to German today. I amused myself with reading it and trying to see how much I could understand. It went pretty well. It helps that I've read that book more times than normal.
Money is starting to affect myself as well as people in the group. I have gained a good sense of self discipline while being here. It helps that our leaders give us 14 Euro at the beginning of each week for meals. Everything is so expensive here. I went shopping in Neuemitte the other day and found out that Converse cost 57 Euro here. That's like almost $70 for a pair of Converse that I could easily get for $40 in the US. It was very easy to resist buying them. Clothes shopping has not been a good experience so far. After finally converting my sizes to the European system, I can hardly find anything that I like. Everything is so overpriced and odd. I'm sticking to my jeans and t-shirts for now.
Tomorrow is a holiday so we don't have school in the morninig. Instead, me and several others will be going on a flora, fossil, and fauna hike with Jo-Ann. It's part of our requirements yet it also sounds interesting and it will give me something to do since we were informed that the holiday tomorrow is a dangerous day. Apparently men start drinking in the morning and are reckless throughout the rest of the day. It is not wise for women to be out since we face harm of being approached inappropriately. Yeah, I don't think so.
On Monday we made a trip to a Kindergarten in Jena. This place was by far the coolest Kindergarten I have ever seen. It made my old daycare place look shabby and out of date. After our group had an introduction and tour of the place, we were allowed to play outside with the children. Since I have been surrounded by child care since I was 12, I was immediately comfortable in my surroundings and began to play with some of the kids. I met a girl named Clara-Marie who enjoyed running with me around the playground to see who was faster and then sitting in this little wooden house. I would have spent the rest of the day there if I could. Interacting with children is something that is very comfortable for me. In some ways, I like children better than adults. In my meeting with Joe and Jo-Ann, they mentioned how I was able to just jump in to things and how I can be flexible. They also mentioned finding a service project for me involving children. I would love to be able to work with children since I already have the experience from working at Childhood Seasons for two years.
The first half of the first part of SST is almost halfway done. There's so much to look forward to in the next three weeks.
I feel like this is going by faster than I would like.
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Oh, dear, sweet Leah, it sounds like you're continuing to have a mind-blastingly good time. Of course the zeit is flying, as it should, since you're enjoying yourself.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comment about liking children better than adults (in some ways). Especially when there's a cake to be baked and a tractor that needs a fixin'.