June 25 2012

We got up really early today to go geocaching. We had to be there at 8am. We ate breakfast, finished getting ready and left at 7:30am, because, on the map it didn’t look that far. We would have done fine too if it hadn’t been for the fact that there was a roundabout that was not marked on the map.

 So we ended up going 15 minutes down a road that wasn’t the right one (the street sign was also wrong) and then having to go 15 minutes back when we realized that couldn’t be the road.

It was really interesting, it was in a beautiful little wilderness area “ the Stadtwald,” and we grouped together with smaller groups of children and ran around the forest with a GPS finding points where there were the answers to questions we had on a sheet of paper. 

 All of the groups seemed to use different strategies but ours, Jennifer, Simonne, and I, pretty much loet the kids do what they wanted. We guided a little when they seemed unsure of the next step (for some reason they didn’t know how to follow the number order of the stations) but we left the GPS up to them, which is probably why we were the last group back, but I think the kids’ favorite part was using the GPS so it didn’t matter.

We rode back in the rain; by the time we got the 20 minutes back to the house (it took us an hour to get to the Stadtwald because of the different street we turned on) we were soaked. Of course 5 minutes after we are in the house the sun comes out, Germany is definitely testing me when it comes to the weather.

Today we also said goodbye to our Phonetiks teachers, who, even though they tortured us, we really grew to appreciate I think.

Words:

Bart = Mustache

Flanell = Flannel

Wasserpfeife = Hookah

Pfeife = Pipe

Rezept = prescription, recipe