Guten Tag from the team.
So, it has been exactly one week, and what a week. Today we left our first host families with a heavy heart. Our first host families were unbelievable – the best way for us to start this GSE trip. We felt like part of the family. To all the host families who looked after us during week one – thank you very much!
Overnight the weather has turned from freezing cold and raining during the day, to a summer’s day – about 23-24 degrees and blue sky. Instead of wearing layers of clothing to dinner, we are considering wearing shorts because it is so war.
Today we arrived in Reutlingen – about 1 hour drive from Stuttgart. Tonight we have a nice dinner at the former Lord Mayor of Reutlingen and current Rotary Club President, Mr Stephan Shultz.
Hi Theo here.
My job is exhausting. I have had to eat, drink, eat, drink, and climb every set of stairs in Stuttgart, interspersed with seeing absolutely fabulous sites and visits. The team has performed absolutely magnificently – to the point where impromptu introductions were performed in German to great applause.
Our German has improved from nothing to being able to understand outlines of conversations in German.
The German that I have translated for Joe for his presentation has a slight mistake we have changed…He has been telling people that he is married to his 20 month old son. The Germans were so polite, that it took a former Lord Mayor, one week into the trip, to tell him his mistake… Sorry Joe, honest mistake…
I now have a cold, courtesy of the brave freezing shower I had on the first night with my host family. I have since been told by my team how to get hot water out of the showers.