Hallo!

Today we went to school in the morning and every group gave at least one presentation (in English over America stuff). We then ate our packed lunch, but a small group also went to the bakery down the street. After a nice lunch of sandwiches and desserts, we went back to school and got on a U-Bahn filled with adorable German kids. We travled for about 30 minutes until we arrived at the Fernsehturm. After a relaxing walk through the woods we played on the playground meant only for children under 14 while we waited for Frau Abt to buy the tickets. We were then taken on a tour of the building. First we went into the basement and saw the floorplans of the building, and learned that it moves 30 cm in the wind like the arch! Luckily today it was not windy! We then went back upstairs and climbed a little bit to look at the tower from the inside. It was nice, and many people wanted to climb the entire way up, but I'm glad we did not because it is a VERY tall building, and I think most people would have been sorry. However the world record for climbing it is 4 minutes, and it would have been interesting to see how long it would have taken us. We then travled half way up (in the elevator) and climbed a little more and stood very close while we watched the two elevators speed past. We then got back on the elevator and went up to a room that controls the tower (and smells HORRIBLE). And then climbed to the lookout rooms and spent about 20 minutes enjoying the beautiful weather and taking pictures of the area. (It was also very clear today, so we could see for miles!) When we were back on the ground we played more on the playground before a grumpy old woman told us to go away because we were too old. We treated ourselves to ice cream (not Penguin as originally planed - there was too long of a line) but we walked to the city and ate at the same ice cream parlor as we did on Monday. It was nice, and when all were finished with their ice cream we happily 'Formed the Corn' in the middle of the city :)

Claire