Thursday, July 20, 2006

Notes from Camp

With permission from Vaden I am sharing these notes from her experience at camp. This was a week long trip at a youth hostel with her class. So she had Deustch learning 24/5. The schools here do this with each class every year.

To Mom for Monday, July 10,2006
Dear Mom,
Today is Monday my first day here and where is "here"? Well, it's past Todtmoos and Uburg is a very small village near where we are staying.
We just got back from a 4 1/2 hour hike to a lake and it was really cool, only the walk home was kind of hard, but it was hard for everyone. We were going up a very big mountain, and got some pix over the cliff :)
Love and miss you and I'll write everyday,
Love, Vaden
p.s today on our hike we met the best dog. It was a redish color and the owner let us play tug of war with him. :)

For Mom for Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Dear Mom,
Today we went on a really, really, really long hike. First we walked up a big hill to get to a bus stop, then we rode the bus untill we got to a large lake (But I think it was a river) and we all thought we would stop right there and start to swim but Herr Klatt said let's go a little farther, this was about 10:00, then we hiked 9K, 9K!!!! and then we were finally at the place to swim. We hiked the 3K to take a tour boat back to the dock where our bus would come back. And then the bus driver saw we were all very tired and asked why, so Herr Klatt said and then somebody said to a friend that we would have to walk home too, and the driver said,"I'll take you to your house", so that was awesome and I think he got thanked a billion times :)
Miss You,
Vaden
P.S. There lots of horses around where we are staying.

to: Mom for Wednesday July, 12, 2006
Dear Mom,
Today we went to St. Blaisen, a town 5K away and when we got there we were given a list of questions and to find the answers we had to go all over town, asking people, looking at things, that sort of thing (oh and we were in groups) but the cool thing is that there were several tour buses from England there and a couple of the people we asked only spoke English so I used my translation skills and we got several answers, right answers!!
But the bad thing is on the hike back one of the boys got a really bad headache and he had no waterbottle so I think it was mostly from dehydration (or however ya spell it) but I had forgotten mine too, but I had bought a bottle of water so they asked to have it and then I gave it and then we got to a cold drinking fountain and filled our bottles there. But the worst thing is about 15 kids went the wrong way at a fork, but they got back safely, they just had to climb a bigger mountain. (I wasn't one of those kids) :)
Love ya,
Vaden

to Mom for Thursday July 13, 2006

Dear Mom,
Today was very cool, but several boys were playing soccer and one boy accidently hit one of the twins (Benny) on the ear and it hurt so much Herr Klatt took him to a doctor, and it turns out he has in his right ear a hole in his eardrum and is now very senestive to sound, so that put a damper on the day, but we must go to bed n'all, I'll tell you more later. :)
Love and see you tomorrow,
Vaden

2 comments:

Arnold Austin Jr said...

Sounds like a great week. Tell everyone hello for us.

mike said...

i built two rolla bolla yesterday and it's just like that.

used a board of 70cm, and it took me 1hour to saw and screw and it's done.