Wine Fest 2010

Wine Fest 2010

Well, hello friends and family.  It has been too long since I have written on my blog. I have been really busy with the classroom and preparing lessons every day. I am gaining more responsibilities for teaching and it has been wonderful to get to know my students.  Not to brag or anything but I have a smart bunch of 4^th grade kiddos.  They are all so wonderful and they have such a variety of personalities!  One of the student has autism and he is probably one of my favorites (Even though I  am not suppose to have favorites….I do) He is on the high spectrum ….basically he is a genius…..and one day we had to do a writing piece  where the students had to write in a different perspective…so he wrote his perspective as an alien and he decided to describe all the anatomy parts of a human  and let’s just say he went into great detail……Well what did I do when he began to discuss his writing piece?  I just started to laugh.  Overall I have a great class and I enjoy teaching.

Wine Fest is an Oktoberfest for the winos.  It was last Saturday. Six of the student teachers  and I left early Saturday morning and took the train to Bad Durkheim which is about 30 minutes from where I live.  Right when we got there we ran into some Americans who persuaded us to take shots of plum vodka with them.  They were a rowdy bunch of Americans who showed us around the festival I felt like a kid in a candy store.  First they had crazy carnival rides that would flip, dip and spin you all over the place. (not a good idea to try them out when you had too much wine) Then the food….they had chocolate covered hotdogs to the normal bananas and strawberries.  And the Schnitzels!  My new found guilty pleasure.  Fried delight, of pork that has been flattened then drenched with a rich creamy white sauce with mushroom and cheese.  Oh my gosh I could just live off that and at the wine fest they had an endless supplies of Schnitzels.

   But the best part of the whole fest was the Wine!  At the festival they have tents strewed all along the carnival rides. And when you enter the tent there are lines of tables.  So the girls and I took our spot at a table and started having wine.  By six pm we were all dancing on the tables.  Then we had German boys come and join us and then older couples came and join us and before you know it the whole tent is standing on tables dancing.  We danced for hours singing German songs ( well kind of mumbling German songs) and had a wonderful time.  After the drinking and the dancing we needed fresh air so we went on Jupiter.  The Ferris wheel.  IT was a great way to end the night.  Last weekend was a great time and I am so glad to be here!

This weekend I have the chance to go to Oktoberfest.  And for teaching I a will have the whole class to myself!  Yippee!  Well love you all and miss you all.

Kelsey

This picture does not do justice of how many people are in the tent....by the end of the night thousands of people are dancing and singing on the tables