Today we visited a grundschule, which is a elementary school teaching students 1st - 5th grades. They prepare students to go on to the gymnasium, realschule, or the hauptschule. Your grades at the grundschule decide which school you'll go to and gymnasium is the only way to get to a university.
We had a presentation and discussion with the direktor of the school and she provided us with an opportunity visit whichever classrooms we wanted. The kids were cute and they even sang us some songs they had been practicing for our visit. The school felt warm and alive and the children were really welcoming. I ended up answering more questions about America for them than they answered about Germany for me.
We got some free time this afternoon, so we went to the Marienplatz to watch the
Glockenspiel at the town hall. The Glockenspiel is a mechanical clock that re-enacts two plays from the history of Bavaria around 1600. It's very popular and it only plays at 12pm and 11pm. We were dropped off by a bus three blocks away because the streets are blocked off there for pedestrians and we got there just as the show finished! We missed it. Next time I guess.
Last visit for the day was to a food company called Danone (we know them as Dannon)that we found out makes much more than yogurt. We found out that the company is taking responsibility
to help other develop good food production and distribution channels but partnering with people all over the world. Tomorrow, we're off to see a different kind of high school, the realschule, which is a middle school, grades 5-10 to get ready for vocational school. Should be cool!
No comments:
Post a Comment