Hi everyone!

Well, I’ve had a rather fun two weeks. I’ve really enjoyed teaching you about Australian schools, sport and food. I hope that you’ve enjoyed learning about them too!

I haven’t done a lot of travelling, however a couple of weekends ago I visited Berlin. It is a very beautiful city. I arrived at about 8 o’clock in the morning on a Thursday and spent the day wandering around the city. Although it was raining, and my backpack got soaked (in other words: very, very wet), I was still very happy looking at all the old buildings and interesting little shops in the north of Berlin city.

I visited the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, which was a very beautiful contemporary art gallery. I saw lots of paintings made recently by German artists. I didn’t understand all of them but it was still fun to go look.

In the afternoon I visited the house that my grandmother grew up in. It was very cool to walk down the same street that my grandmother walked down when she was 16 years old. She lived there with her parents until they all moved to Australia. I took some photos of the house to show the rest of my family when I return home.

During the rest of the weekend I visited a couple of different museums and galleries. These included the Egyptian Museum. This place had lots of different objects from Ancient Egypt. They had an entire room which was filled with mummies! There were 27 all together and they were all once Egyptian kings and queens. It was very spooky.

For dinner one night I ate at a Turkish restaurant. I had incredibly delicious falafel* with hommus** and fresh, crunchy salad. The decorations inside the restaurant were very pretty and middle-eastern looking. There were coloured glass lamps and red, orange and brown patterned carpets. I was very happy with my meal.

This past weekend I stayed in Warsaw. I visited the University of Warsaw to have a look around. The buildings are very beautiful and I was interested to learn that the university is almost 100 years old! I also went for a swim on Saturday and caught up with some of the other volunteers for dinner that night. It was a very relaxing weekend.

See you all in classes!

Sarah

* Turkish balls made of chickpeas.

** A dip made of chickpeas.