This week was the first week back from the holidays and it was a strange one to say the least.
On almost everyday Lukas's class had free periods because of teachers being away sick. And for a lot of the classes they didn't even have a teacher because there were so few teachers in the school that they had none left to fill the gaps. So we did a lot of doing nothing this week. But we did to two things that were of significance.
On Thursday afternoon, Lukas, Jazz, Johanna and one of their friends Bubsi went to an ice skating rink in Austria, about 10-15 mins from Oberaudorf.. To start with I was awful but got the hang of it and by the end I was keeping up with all the others, and I'm proud to say that I didn't fall over once. I hope we get to go ice skating again, it was serious fun.
And today Lukas, Korbi, Jazz, Johanna, Julia, Lukas and Korbi's mum and I went to a salt mine in a town called Berchtesgaden in the most southern point of Germany, about 30 kms south of Salzburg. We got to do some cool things in the mine like going down a long wooden slide and going in an underground cable car sort of thing, but I think the best of all was when we crossed an underground lake called the Mirror lake, aptly named for the fact that there is a perfect mirror image of the roof on the lake surface. It was amazing. It took me a while to realise it was even a lake!! While in the mine we also learned a lot about the mining techniques used by the miners to extract the salt deposits. It was especially good for me because I did one week of work experience at a gold mine earlier this year, so it was good to compare the two completely different techniques.
After the saltmine we went for a short drive to lake Koenigsee. We went for a short walk from the car park to a viewing area and from there we got to see one of the most amazing views ever. This lake is both majestic and beautifully postioned in a small valley. It was breath taking. We then started to make our way back to the car but on the way we stopped of at the Bobsled/Luge run, and we were lucky enough to see some athletes running the course on luges. That was seriously cool, and I still can't believe how fast they go around the course, just ask Jazz and she'd give you a good description.
So that's about it for this week. Although a bit boring at school, I still had an enjoyable week. Tom
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