Friday, August 18, 2017

Day 5: School 2, City Tour, and The Wanderer

Today we began the day with a visit to a vocational school.  I'm no expert in this area, but I was impressed with what I learned about vocational schools in Germany.  It seems like a good opportunity for students who might not want to go to college/university.  This particular school was 96% male and only 4% female. Wow!  Additionally, students can earn money on the weeks they are doing their internship (they do a few weeks in the classroom, then a few weeks at their job). They make a decent pay too.  We had a lecture from the headmaster, toured the school, and got to see some students working on various projects as we toured the building.  The school provided the lunch.  It was really good (below).





After lunch, we had a bit of free time before our tour of Nuremberg so two of the other teachers and I decided to poke around some more of the shops.  I confess I purchased more gingerbread.  It wasn't on purpose, but they gave us free samples of the peach gingerbread and it was so good.  I also got a Christmas decoration--a small glass Christmas tree made in Germany.  We visited another church too.  After shopping, the three of us decided to grab a quick drink.  We ran into another guy from our group so he joined us.



Then it was off to our tour of Nuremberg.  The tour was fairly interesting.  It started at the place below and ended at a castle.


Four of us decided to stay and tour the castle.  We only had an hour and a half until it closed so we had to go quickly.  I especially enjoyed the view from the tower.





After the castle, we decided to stop at the Wanderer, a popular bar in Nuremberg.  Our tour guide described it as one of the "moodiest places" in Nuremberg so I thought we were going to see all kinds of grumpy people, but it turns out he meant mood like the atmosphere, I guess not everything translates nicely.  Two other guys from our group were there so we joined them for our drink, then the six of us walked down the street where we ran into some more people from our group and had dinner.  I tried celery schnitzel.  We hung out for a bit, then part of our group headed back to the hotel--after a gelato stop. :-)  Tonight it was strawerry and chocolate.


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