Today, I got up at 6am and got ready, and ate a breakfast of yogurt and fruit. Today, like every other day, my host family has not failed to have Nutella at breakfast! Afterwards, we headed off to our last day at the Feldbergschule. It was cold this morning, so I was glad I had a sweatshirt. To get to school, we walk to the bus stop, take the bus to the train station, and take the U-Bahn to the station near school, and then walk the rest of the way. It takes about 45 minutes, but it doesn’t feel that long because you’re moving the whole time, as opposed to sitting in a car. Once we got to school, the first class I went to was Ethics and Religion. The students were talking about what a paradise is and what it means to be in a paradise. Afterwards, we had a break and then went to the second class, Biology. I was really happy to go to this class because it was the first science class I had gotten to see. The students were doing a worksheet on mitosis. It was hard to understand in German, but I remembered some of it from my Biology class, which really helped. The teacher was definitely stricter than the others; she was the only teacher to correct and edit our class summary sheets! After Biology, we left school and went to Maya’s. Leaving was a little bittersweet because we won’t ever come back to the school. At Maya’s, we ate sandwiches and hung out. By then, it had warmed up a little, so we sat outside. After a little over an hour at Maya’s, we all met at the train station for a field trip
to the Anne Frank Educational Center. We first got to do different interactive activities with tablets to learn more about Anne Frank and about discrimination in general. These were very interesting because we had never done anything like this before. We were at the center for a very long time, and after we were done with the interactive exhibits, we looked at print ads and had a discussion about discrimination in both words and images. After the Anne Frank house, a group of us went to Annika’s for dinner, which was great because we were all starving. Afterwards, we all hung out and talked, plus we taught the German students some new group games! Overall, it was a very fun day and a great way to spend our last day at the school. ~Olivia Z.