We left Uetze and took a two hour
train ride to Frankfurt. We spent the
day in Frankfurt walking around, but the weather wasn’t very good. We visited
the largest skyscraper in Frankfurt, the Maintower. Then we went back to the station and caught another train to
Achern. When we arrived it was late in the evening so we just went home,
showered, and went to sleep in our new host family homes. It was difficult to wake up the next morning
because we all didn’t get much sleep but we had to go to school.
The first couple of days we
were in Achern we had to go to school. We sat through a German class
and a politics class the first day. Also, throughout the week we gave
presentations to different age level English classes. Everyone did presentations on things like
our schools, life at home, and our hometowns.
We also gave them an opportunity to ask questions they might have
about America. A lot of them were interested in our opinions on
American politics... especially Obama. For lunch we typically ate in the school cafeteria with our hosts
and their friends, but occasionally all the Americans would walk to the
city
for pizza and döner (above). 
On June 28th,
we all dressed up in German colors and went to the public viewing section in
Achern to watch the EuroCup soccer match between Germany and Italy. While we were watching the game, a teenage
guy with a megaphone approached us and asked where we were from. After
we responded America, he started a
“USA!” chant. Germany ended up losing the soccer match 3-1 after
Balotelli from the Italian team scored the first two goals for Italy.
Needless to say, everyone in Germany is holding out a small grudge.
After beating Germany, Italy moved on
to the finals to play Spain and ended up getting pounded by Spain 4-0..
In
the next days, we spent time going to school and spending time with each
other
after school at places like the lake and the city.
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