A typical day

Morgens

At my house, me and my exchange student would wake up every school day at 6:20. We'd get ready and then go downstairs to have breakfast. My host mom and dad were usually sitting around the kitchen dining table and there would always be coffee to drink and different kinds of breads (always fresh from the bakery, and sometime there would be fresh pretzels or pastries) and sometimes cheeses and meats. At 7:15 my exchange student's friend would come over and we would ride our bikes to school. When we rode through town there were always people setting up the local farmers market for fresh fruits and vegetables. The gymnasium started at 7:30. Every day of the week the schedule would be different, but the people in the class would remain the same. (see the schedule below) In Germany the students have one class (with the same students all day) and the teachers would come in as the subjects changed. (The only exceptions to this is for things like chemistry and PE)

Die Pause

At 9:55 the entire school would have a short break. (15 minutes) In the student lounge they sold cheese breads and small sandwiches from a bakery in town. You could also go to the "cafeteria" that was really only a small snack shop above the gym. This had coffee, juice, ice cream, candy bars and sausages. )

Mittagessen

Twelve is lunchtime, not only for the school, but also for almost every business in town. (And when you're in the lower grades, this is the end of the school day.) People all over Germany leave work at twelve to go home and eat with their families. Almost all shops and businesses close at around 12 and they don't reopen until about 1 or 2pm. (I've been told this is because of a German law that regulates when businesses can be open. Lunch is the bigger hot meal of the day. (kind of like dinner in America) After lunch it's the quiet hour. This is the time that you can't play you radio very loud, and it's polite to hold off calling someone at this time. German students usually use this time to do their homework, to study or to take a nap. (if they stayed up the night before)

Nachmittags

Some days we would have to go back to school at 2:00 and then go to two classes. Usually in the afternoons we would go over to someone's house or go into town and go shopping. At around four every day we would watch "Verbotene Liebe" a German teenage soap opera, and snack on chocolate.

Abendessen

We would have dinner at 7 or 8. There was always a baguette and other breads, with cheeses, (Jarlsberg, cream cheese, and some French cheeses) ham, smoked sausages, and sometimes a salad.

Abends

After dinner sometimes we would go to an outdoor Café and get something to drink, to the movies, or to a Kneipe or Pub. Finally we would get back home and I would go to bed at about 10 or 11.

Weekly schedule

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7:30- 8:15	German	Religion	German	Biology	French
8:20- 9:05	Math	Spanish	History	Spanish	Chemistry
9:10- 9:55	Break
9:55-10:10	English	French	Spanish or Physics	Economics	Biology
10:10- 10:55	Spanish	History	Math	French	Spanish or Physics
11:00- 11:45	French	PE	English	Religion	English
11:50-12:35		PE			Math
2:05- 2:50			Chemistry	German Art
2:55- 3:40			Economics

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