Yesterday was a really fun day. We started the day going to school as usual, but the school day was cut short for us by our field trip to Heide Park which is a lot like Worlds of Fun. The kids had a great time riding all of the roller coasters and seeing all of the sights. There was a drop tower which is a lot like the Detonator at Worlds of Fun, except that this is the highest drop tower in the world. The Colossus is one of the largest wooden roller coasters in Europe with the steepest drop in the world and the Krake is a roller coaster with a truly vertical drop that takes you into the mouth of a sea monster. We spent the entire day (about 10:00-5:00) at the park and then came back to school where the students all went back to their host families. So far I have heard nothing but positive feedback from our students about the family stay and all say that their host families are really nice. All of our students are coming to school with backpacks full of food from their host mothers which is pretty funny. All in all the family stay has been a great experience for everyone. The first few days the kids were, for the most part, segregating themselves German/American, but yesterday's experience at Heide Park was great because they were all mixed together and having a great time and speaking both languages. The bus rides there and back were fun because students were really exploring the language barrier with one another. For some reason it is really hard for Germans to say squirrel and our kids got a kick out of that. The German students had fun listening to our students try to pronounce some hard German words too.
We have really enjoyed the our stay here in Rotenburg and will be sad to leave. Friday we will head to the train station where our train will leave at 9:27 to Hamburg where we will change trains and depart for our next destination Cologne, Germany. We are all looking forward to our coming adventures.
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