Moin again, this is what we say in Germany! People from the south of Germany think we mean to say "morning" which is a similar word in old-German, but actually, we use "MOIN" in the north pretty much all day.
On this day, we were supposed to stay in the classroom all day and work out routes with the public transport system of Hamburg! Because we were supposed to go on a trip in groups of four all over the city of Hamburg, so we get used to the system. We did that, too, and it was good fun, but we were TIRED and some of us were grumpy. We had tasks on a sheet of paper, write down what it says on the bridge at the station X or bring a souvenir from the trip back to the class. Miss Böhl got a "Franzbrötchen" from one of the groups, that's a speciality from Hamburg. It's kind of a pastry with lots of butter and cinnamon. It's a bit like a croissant, squashed and with lots of grease and cinnamon. Really nice. Some brought Mc Donald's balloons and even stones from some underground stations!
ANYWAY. Let's get back to the day before that tour. We were supposed to prepare for the tour, but our teacher spontaneously called our parents and surprised us by saying "you are supposed to sit in here and do these papers all day while it's beautiful outside, but I have another idea..." So we just hopped on the underground and bus and took a ferry from the harbor. We had an ice-cream a good way out of the city and then returned. All sunburnt but quite happy. On some pictures you can see the "Michel" in the background, it's the most famous church in Hamburg and was built to safeguard the sailors. It's the symbol for Hamburg. Can you find it on the photos? :-)
