Thursday started the same way that it has for me over the past four days. I woke up, showered, ate breakfast, and then went to school. My first class was economics, after which all of us Cary Academy students headed to the Oberursel town hall to meet with council member Christof Fink. We arrived at the town hall after a short walk from school. Along the way, we saw a couple of students walking back to class a bit late. We waited outside the town hall for a while, and received the questions we wrote at the beginning of the week. A while later, we finally headed into the town hall. It was quite nice in the room where we asked our questions, and the chairs were especially comfortable. We were there for about 20 or 30 minutes, and then headed back to the Feldbergschule to meet up with our exchange partners. I met up with Yannick and got some food to eat during the break. Brett came with us, as his partner Robin had gone home sick when the CA students left for the town hall. Brett, Yannick and I went to biology next. It was interesting, because I could remember what had been taught in the last biology class. That class was obviously a continuation of the last lesson, as we were still talking about the cell cycle. After biology class ended, Brett and I went with Yannick, Eileen and Addie to buy some Döner. The Döner place was quite far away, so we had to walk really quickly to get there. On the way there several people passed us heading back to school. How did all those people get there so fast? While I don’t know how they did it, after we got our food, we headed back to the Feldbergschule as fast as we could. Unfortunately, we ended up being about 3 or 4 minutes late. Immediately upon our arrival at the school, most of the CA students headed to an empty classroom to hear a presentation about the student council of the Feldbergschule. A few students, including Brett, went to give some presentations in other areas during that time instead. The presentation that the majority of us heard was quite interesting, and we headed to the train station after it was over. Along the way it started to rain, which was unfortunately when I realized that my raincoat was not really waterproof. After arriving at the station, we waited in a good shop for the rain to stop a bit before getting on our train and heading to Frankfurt. Upon our arrival in Frankfurt, we had about an hour and a half to walk around and shop. [We were originally supposed to have a short tour around old town Frankfurt during this time, but that was cancelled due to the rain, and the group took refuge in a nearby shopping mall instead.] I found a T-Mobile store, which wad good because it meant that I could finally activate my SIM card. However, this one T-Mobile store decided I had to be 18 to activate my SIM card. This seemed odd, as the other two stores had been fine with me being 16. After buying a new SIM card at Vodafone, I met back up with the group, and we headed to the theater to watch a play. The play we saw, “Die Welle,” was quite good, and an interesting look into how a repressive regime can be started. The actors in the play were all from the Feldbergschule, and some of the actors were a part of the exchange last year. After the play, Yannick and I were driven home by Constantin and his exchange student Sebastian. Overall, today was another great day in Germany, and specifically in Oberursel. ~Jono J.