the school trip today to the german christmas market in birmingham was soo cool! the trip was organised by the german teacher of our school and some other teachers and was open to all year 7 students (about 12 year olds) and to the internationals. after a 3-hour coach ride to birmingham, the german teacher split the students up in groups of six and every german-speaking international student had to take one group to walk around on the christmas market as a leader to make sure they don't get lost and explain stuff (even though i have never been to a german christmas market before haha). i had some students which started to study german this year and at every sign where there was standing something in german they asked me what it meant :D after an hour we brought them back and then they were allowed to walk around alone, and so were we - we went into some shops as well, not only the market, there is a very big shopping centre in birmingham... then we met up again. the coach ride home was the funniest part of the whole day as we were 'am umeblödle' all the time with the german teacher... 

huge shopping centre