Great Weather and Spring Trips

The past two days have been great here. It's been sunny, and yesterday's temp was in the 60s!! Also, since there's more daylight now, the winter seems to be fading away. This spring, I'll be going to Dublin, Ireland as a chaperone for Model United Nations. I'm going the week before Easter, so I'm hoping to attend some Holy Week services in English while there. (if there's any chance) Then, we have the European Destination trips in June. Since I speak Spanish and was the geography teacher last year, I'm getting to go with the Grade 11 geography students to Barcelona! Those are my only spring trips so far. I still don't have anything planned for Easter break yet. I might stay in Germany but go to Cologne or Hamburg. I've also thought about Budapest with a stop off in Bratislava. I might even stay in Dresden.

Pics from Berlin

This is from Checkpoint Charlie. My dad was stationed in Germany in the early 1960s and also has a picture of himself in front of the checkpoint.

The Berlin Wall was mostly dismantled, so Berlin has this to commemorate where the wall one stood.

A small section of the wall near Potsdamer Platz

Fun and Games

My friend Amanda came to visit last week. She was a trooper as she is not only about 6 months pregnant but also has a broken kneecap. She broke it the Monday before she left on Friday to fly to Germany. It only changed our plans slightly, and we had a great time. We went to Berlin and Prague. This was the first time I had been to Berlin as a tourist. We went to the DDR museum, Checkpoint Charlie, Potsdamer Platz, and Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival. We also went to Prague and stayed only a few houses down the street from the Charles Bridge!

One of the most fun things we did was a game we entitled "How well do YOU know the 'Coe?" We each gave three clues about someone from Glencoe, and the other person tried to guess. It was great fun. An example of a clue might be "went on one date with Amanda" or "was the salutatorian." It was really fun. We played the game for at least an hour on the train back from Prague.

It was a great week. Unfortunately, school starts tomorrow. Yuck!

Zoe at PT

This is a short video of Zoe at physical therapy. She is walking on the underwater treadmill. She is doing much better; however, she still doesn't walk all the time. Tonight she wore weights on her right leg to make it stronger.