Half way through

Well that week went by fast, I've been learning a bit more about how the system works and what the objectives are of various lessons ('cos I've tried to work them out without asking, but sometimes I just can't see the point of some activities- until it's been explained to me!)... My class teacher was ill on Friday, so things were a bit chaotic, there... Oh well, I hope he's back again tomorrow.
So, what have I been up to this weekend? Sara took me to the Uni and showed me around on Friday afternoon, we even did some work!! - got some books out of the Library for my essay... now I've got to plow thru' them...
Friday evening Sara, Julia and Manuela took me to see the night life of Lüneburg... we had a very nice meal out, sitting outside watching the people go by and listening to the band. We discussed all sorts and decided that we all needed to polish up on our knowledge of politics (particularly as Germany has its elections soon!!!)
Saturday we woke up to a lovely sunny day, and had already booked a tour to the 'Lüneburger Heide' (the heath), so we had a coach journey to Niederhaverbeck, where we then went on a carriage ride... we didn't see quite as much of the heath as exepected, but still it was nice, but guess what? The weather did what English weather does, it suddenly rained on us!! Fortunately the carriage had a roof so we didn't really get wet although the sides were open. But of course I was in shorts and a T-shirt and although I'm English I didn't take a jumper with me, so I did get rather cold!!!! In compensation we went and had some cake and mint tea when the ride was finished. It was very nice to eat proper German cake again. But the 'adventure' (as some of our elderly fellow tourists called it) was not complete. We got on the bus and started the journey home... but what was that, there was some strange noise. A few minutes later the driver says, I'm just going to have a play with the vehicle, but don't worry we'll get home. He kept driving, but things were obviously not right, but he got to some village where he knew people and stopped there, They found the problem immediately -broken fan belt. They suggested we all go look at the beautiful church and another coach would be there in 1/2 an hour, so we all trouped off in a long line to see this church and wander around this quaint little village... Sara and I wandered off and then decided we better get back to the crowd, then the church bells started to ring, we had to pass by the church again, as we approached a man came out looking very confused, (he belonged to our coach load), as we got nearer he told us to come in the church and look at it again - he had found the light switch to light up the alter, so we had another look, and then continued on our way. But we reckon that the man switched the lights on just as the bells began to toll, so we think he was rather shocked by this outcome... Needless to say we were highly amused!!! Anyway we did finally get back to Lüneburg, and had a successfull day, seeing the famous Lünerburger Heide, being entertained by the older folk and passing ourselves off as English tourists! (view some pictures of the trip here)
Today we've taken it easy, but we did go to the Kalkberg, with the help of a map - now Sara knows a bit more of Lüneburg :-) (but the view isn't as good as it's claimed to be... Oh well.)
Well it's back to school tomorrow, you'll hear more from me later in the week.
Gillian