Another Chapter is Done and a New One Begins

This week felt so short, It was probably the quickest week I've had here in Germany. It seemed to fly by like a dream, I just woke up and it was over. With Friday I closed another chapter of my life and Monday starts one that promises to be a hell of a ride.

Monday and Tuesday this past week where lost to travel from London and catching up on my blog, and Facebook. So many photos and film clips to upload and I'm still not done.

Wednesday I returned to the school and had the usual wednesday. German course, Home EC., and Math. During a break I reminded Frau Weber that I would have my last day with them that week. She suggested that I make a small presentation/ game that has to do with criminal justice. Not exactly what I had in mind to do as my goodbye... I really just intended to say something short, but it turned out OK.

Thursday I did my goodbye, A short story with a riddle involved. The students really enjoyed it and it was even educational for the one class. they have been learning long division so if they couldn't understand the riddle there was math they could do for the answer.

The Story

There was once a very rich woman.

She had a dog that she loved more than anything.

One morning she could not find the dog,

she searched her entire villa. 

Eventually she found a note that read:

"Give me $5000, and I will return the dog. "

She called the police, who came to her house 

and looked over the security footage.

they found this picture:

(remember I'm an Professional Artist.)

So there are only 4 people that can stay in the house at night. 

The Cook, The Gardener, The Butler, and The Driver.

The investigator called them to give a handwriting sample.

But none of the samples matched.

The investigator still knew who had done it, do you?

Leave your answer below, Who and how you know!!! I'll reveal the answer next week. 

After the riddle we ate some sweets I had baked; it's backwards to what we believe in the US but in Germany you basically through your own parties. On your birthday you buy drinks for your friends, when you leave a company you bring the goodbye cake. The students enjoyed my sweets and told me I needed to switch careers. 

It was a sad day for all of us actually, I will be honest 4 months ago when I started this internship I never thought that I would enjoy it as much as I did. I never enjoyed being around kids, even when I was one. And I had no experience in Teaching, so I had no idea what I could do to be of use. But now that is has passed I realize how much I enjoyed the experience, how much of a difference my time there made (both on me and them), How much I will miss these kids. It really was a joy to work with them for the time I was there. 

Since we did the goodbye on Thursday I didn't go in on Friday. I used the day to catch up on some readings, wright some emails, organize some paperwork, so on and so forth. My biggest project of the day was doing some research into the Differences between US and German Policing and the Criminal Justice System; I'll wright more about that next week.

I was also inspired by another PPP'lers video blog to look into Geo-Caching. Mike MacLafferty a fellow PPP'ler has been doing this in Germany for the past few weeks and it peaked my interest. Now I already knew what Geo-caching was and had been a few times, but had never thought to do it in Germany, maybe because of the rain. 

But for those who don't know I'll give a description;

Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.- official geo-cache website.

So using your GPS you navigate to the site, then you scavenge around for containers hidden based on clues in the description and hints given. Difficulties vary with the size of the container, how difficult it's suppose to be, and the terrain. containers come in varrious sizes; Micro, small, regular, and Large. 

Micro can be up to the size of a 35mm film canister, smalls are up to the size of a sandwich box, reuglar are usually ammo crates and large can be anything bigger than a 50cal. ammo crate. 

I decided to try my hand at it this morning (Saturday) but to no avail, maybe starting with a micro isn't such a good Idea, lol. I had a regular (size) multistage one planned at the Aasee but it is raining today and I don't really wanna risk killing my phone searching for these 13 different caches. 

 In all reality all 13 of these spots are only there to give a hint to where the final cache is standing, hopefully the weather is a little nicer to me tomorrow and I can get down and try this one. I'm excited to give this a try and hopefully can use it as a way to get me out and moving a little more.

Welp I'm off to read a little bit and prepare for my cache tomorrow,

Cody A Glick