Today was the first day of school, however I did not attend. In the morning I went with Samuel, Mirjam, and Lea to the Primary School for the first day of school for the kids. We got to see Samuel's class start and the opening ceremony. There were pigeons flying out of cages, buckets of sunflowers and songs, it was a lot more intense than the first day of American school. Later Barbara and I went to Soloturn to talk with my head teacher, Frau Tardo. In the schools here the head teachers actually teach classes, Frau Tardo happens to be my Biology teacher. It turns out that I don't have to take any tests for the first whole 6 months of school and just focus on learning German. I also am going to have Vollyball and Yoga as elective sports. It sounds like it will be smooth running. Later in the day Lea and I went to Olten where my three week intensive German class will be. My German class is going to be at a place I already mentioned in an earlier post. It really surprised me, can you guess it? We also went to the older part of Olten and discovered a carnival in the middle of the street. We rode on the Farris wheel and saw the whole town, than on the really high fast spiny ride and des covered that they run much longer in Switzerland than they do in the USA. We went him by train, the ride takes 45 minutes! And met with my RYE counselor Hanz. To say the least it was a very busy day.
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