Daily Life & Freiburg Trip

I am standing outside the "Munster" in Freiburg.


May 18, 2010

This is like a Lewis & Clark journal. We do homework every morning, I just finished writing my last page in my Lewis & Clark journal today.

But before homework, I get up and walk to the Bäkerei (bakery) and buy hard rolls for the family for breakfast. The Germans eat these fresh every day with jam and butter or cheese and deli meats. Also they often have soft boiled eggs.

It’s my job to get up early, take some Euros (Germany’s money) and walk the two blocks to the Marktplatz (downtown area) in Burg Birkenhof. I say the number like, eins (one), and point to the kind of roll I want. When they give it to me I say “danke schön” and they say “bitte schön.” That is “thanks” and “you’re welcome”. My favorite roll looks like a pretzel, but they’re bigger and soft on the inside.

Then we do math, Lewis & Clark journal, mining history and write on this blog. We are having trouble getting an internet connection in our home, but my mom makes me write anyway. Once I get the internet, I am going to do my animal report on Germany’s wild boars.

We walk everywhere or bike everywhere, even to get groceries. It’s about a two mile walk to the big grocery store in Kirchzarten. I help my mom carry the groceries back up the hill to our home in Burg Birkenhof.

Sunday we went by train to Freiburg. We walked around the old part of the city. We saw a huge church called the “Münster”. It’s big, it has lots of stained glass windows with pictures. The pictures tell stories.

The first picture is Katie, me and my dad outside the church in Freiburg.

Inside the church there are organ pipes everywhere. It was huge inside!

The outside is covered with gargoyles just like the cartoon movie “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. One of the gargoyles had some humor. If you look closely you can see a guy leaning against the wall with his bottom in the air.

The top picture is a regular gargoyle. The next one is the gargoyle with humor. See the guy hanging off backwards on the upper left?

I’ve made some friends but one of them doesn’t speak English. So it’s kind of hard to communicate with him. His name is Timt. The other one is Johannes. We play hide and go seek and play with their guinea pigs. Timt has two guinea pigs and Johannes has twelve. They leave for school at 7:30 on their bikes. They ride into Kirchzarten. They get home at 1:15. So I try to be done with my homework by then.

Yesterday I saw a weird mallard-green beetle that was sitting by our garbage can.. it kind of reminds me of a dung beetle, the kind that rolls poop.

This is the bug I found in our backyard.