Germany 2011 --Day 3

OCTOBER 4 –TUESDAY –DAY 3

Today we got up at 6:30am for a shower. The shower today was about the exact same maybe a bit worse. The drain was clogged and the temperature differences were even worse. We had breakfast at 8:00am…it was the same as yesterday morning –a bun with nutella and salami and cheese. Then we pack our lunch for the day in Köln. Then at 8:30am we left for Köln. We had to make a stop on the way in Vluyn so that we could buy postcards and stamps that we had to use in tonight’s lesson. Before we left Vluyn I used the washroom at the ice cream shop that we went to yesterday. Natalie and I went because she knew where it was. On our way there the street cleaner almost ran us over. The toilets were very high off the ground; even I could not reach the floor when I was on it. After that all of us went to the grocery store to buy some drinks and snacks for the rest of the week. I got two 1½-liter water bottles because the tap water was discussing, and a bag of grapes. Then we finally left for Köln. It was a 1½-hour drive, we watched most of the movie ‘Percy Jackson the lightening thief.’ When we got there we ate our lunch on the River Rhine. It was really nice. Then we walked to the Köln cathedral. When we got there we took a bathroom break but for these bathrooms we had to pay. It was 50¢ to use the bathroom. There were nice and you had to wave at the toilet to flush it, it was quite odd. Then we climbed the cathedral, it was over 500 steps up and over 500 steps down.  Natalie, Emma and I were in the front and climbed it very fast. The staircase was all circular all the way up, I got kinda dizzy. When we got to the top you cold walk around the outside to see the view from the top. The view was amazing, you could see forever. When everyone was done climbing the cathedral we went shopping in the most fancy part of town I think. There was all the super expensive brands there but we did manage to find a tourist shop were we got some soviners.  When we were done shopping we walked to the chocolate museum/ lindt chocolate factory. We go to walk around the museum in groups then we could go to the gift shop which was all chocolate. While we were walking through the museum we saw many cool thing but the best thing was the chocolate fountain. They had hot chocolate running down the fountain and they gave out wafers that they dipped the chocolate. It was very good. Natalie and I went back about 5 times. Then we went to the gift shop where I got a bunch of chocolate. I also got some chocolate shaped like hedgehogs. Flora got some chocolate for here parents and wanted to get it gift wrapped, the gift wrapping was for free that’s why there was a huge line. She had to wait forever. We both waited in line so long that we were 15 minutes late. But we weren’t the only ones. Then we walked back to the bus and went back to the youth hostel. On the bus ride we finished ‘Percy Jackson the lightening thief’ and started ‘the spider wick chronicles.’ When we got back it was time for dinner, tonight we had spaghetti bolognas and salad with the option of having salami and cheese. We also got to meet the other people that were staying at the youth hostel that came during the day when we were out. We thought that they would be around the same age as us but they turned out to be a bunch of 8 year olds. They were very cute though, except they spoke completely German. After dinner we had an hour before lesson so we played more soccer and basketball. While we were playing basketball the little kids came up to us and we attempted to have a conversation. We had to use a dictionary though. Then they told Natalie, Emma and I that we were all pretty and that we were good at speaking German. I was very proud of myself because I am not good at speaking German at all. Then at 8:15pm we had lesson, we wrote our post cards and I was the only one to send them to somewhere other than England because I sent it to my parents. When we were done that we learned about time and how to say half past, quarter past, and quarter to. I was okay at it but it would have been earlier if I knew my numbers better. Then we played a game where you got in a group and you had to run out and memorize as much of a page of German as u could then come back to write it down. When you came back you also had to tell the next person what part you memorized up to. This went on until you finished it and the first people done with the correct spelling won. My group came in third. The lesson went on until ac=bout 10:00pm. Then we went to sleep.