Day 4 - Teaching and visiting Wiesbaden

Hallo and welcome back to my site :-)

Today was an exciting day! All of us started out visiting and participating in English classes. The students were exciting and full of interest about Americans. We discussed many topics, such as: violence in the classrooms, the war, clothing, politics, fast driving, fast food, pollution, China, manufacturing jobs, products made in America/Germany and of course beer. A picture of some students in one class is above. I included a picture of our group minus the photographer Jill! Tomorrow one with us all!

I think we helped many students understand that we are just like they are with differing opinions on all of the above topics and that we are not afraid to discuss them and share our opinions.

After that we took a short drive to Wiesbaden the capital city of the state of Hessen. There we had lunch at one of my favorite new restaurants, can you guess why? Say SUSHI!! We ate at Sushi World and many had cooked food...LOL

Then we headed to the Ministry of Education and the Arts with a meeting to discuss the changing political and school situation in the state of Hessen. We covered a wide range of topics and shared information. We ended the meeting with a presentation to Herr Klaus Ring. Thomas Reinholz and Tina Sorgenfrei from the Department of International Education were also presenting information. Then Herr Ring took us on a tour of this wonderful city. We all wanted to shop, however, we ran out of time.

On the tour we visited a church called Marktkirche Wiesbaden which is now an Evangelical Lutheran church. It had ceilings over 150 feet and an organ that was built in 1863 with 125 ranks, and 6,198 pipes!! I'll post that picture tomorrow as Jill took it where her telephoto lens.

We look at many wonderful buildings as you can see above. The clock as very interesting a coo coo clock :-) We also looked and and some tasted the water that cures from hot springs right within the center of the city.

On the way back to KSII our meeting place we were stuck in our first traffic jam which the Germans pronounce Stough spelled Stau I think??

I hope you enjoy the update and I will have more tomorrow with new pictures from Jill's camera!

Bye now!