Okay so now we are at Saturday. In the morning we went back to the Grundschule (the elementary school) because they were having a summer fest and the principal invited us to come and check it out. We were supposed to dance with the kids, you know the dance we practiced with kids in their gym class, but (thankfully) when we got there the dance teacher was busy getting all the students ready so we didn’t end up dancing with them. OH DARN. Really with all the parents watching, I was content with just watching. But the kids dance was cute!
Their choir also performed a few songs.
Their theme of the fest was the four elements: earth, water, fire and wind. So they had a man that was breathing fire. That was pretty cool.
After the singing and dancing the kids put on a performance of a German fairy tale. Although none of us could understand what they were not saying nor could really see because there were so many parents. So we decided to head back to the hotel. Our plan was to be productive the rest of the day. We were going to do some blogging, then check out this street fest that was near by and then take the train into Stuttgart and go to the zoo…. But that did not happen, oh no. We got back to the hotel and laid around a bit longer than planed. We did actually look around the street fest for awhile. Then we came to the consensus that most of us really weren’t at all feeling walking around the zoo.
I feel like we have all hit a wall, a wall of exhaustion. So much walking and tours and fun! So as where a week ago, even if I was tired I would have still wanted to GO GO GO… now I just want to go take a nap! Which is exactly what I did… a two hour nap to be exact! I know that probably seems lame but we have been going non stop since we’ve got here. So I think the nap was the best decision for all of us.
After our lovely nap, we all got ready for dinner and going out for the night. We were going to meet up with Ina again tonight since we didn’t the night before she again had to work early in the morning, so that was a no go. Still we got spiffy-ed up so after a very yummy dinner at the café by our hotel we decided to walk around the park for a bit.
Well when you are in Germany and you are a group of giggle girls speaking English you kind of stick out like a sore thumb. So while we were talking a group of guys .. oh wait correction: boys, they were most definitely several years younger than all of us, came up and started talking to us, or trying to at least since they spoke only a little bit of English. But anyways they were friendly and found it cool to be talking to Americans. Like they’ve never seen Americans before... jokes… But they had some very interesting stereotypes and opinions about America.
1. They get there idea of cops in America from the Simpsons, fat, blue hair and eating donuts all day. They said this is why there is crime because the cops are too fat to catch the criminals…. Okay.
2. They think we don’t like England because of the Revolutionary War… I thought that was kind of interesting.
3. They love Obama and hate George Bush… no comment there…
4. Again with the Gangsters and crime in Chicago
5. And American girls are beautiful, but we all knew that! :P
I think it’s really cool to see how other people view our country. Well here is a group of our new German buddies. None of us were really ready for the picture to be taken but its all I’ve got so here it is:
You really don't need to completey speak the same language to laugh and have a good time.
They kept calling me sunshine :)
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