School Days

Day 3 of school and there‘s no hiding in class.  As suspected, Paul and I are the only students in our level and our teacher, Sylvia now knows what she‘s dealing with.  We‘re getting lots of personalized correction and Sylvia says that in a month our ability to converse will be much better.  I sure hope so!

The view from the train stop near the school is pretty spectacular.  Right across the road is a harbor for tour boats and small craft.  One stop down you can see the main harbor where large ships are loaded.  The entire area is being revitalized with many shops and apartments as well as the Elbphilharmonie.

We hope to have some free time in the next few days to visit the Immigration Museum at the harbor where many German immigrants to the US made their initial journey.  Paul was able to track some of his ancestors here through Ancestry.com and now we want to see what records are available. Tomorrow afternoon we will head to the Hamburg Botanic Garden (Sylvia said we had to go while the weather is good).  With an expected high of 69 we‘re experiencing a real heatwave!

Remember that it‘s Oktoberfest and we‘re doing our part to celebrate.