Teaching Abroad in Germany: Hamburgers in Paradise

Alex Ford

I am a senior undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill, and I am spending my final month of student teaching in Hamburg, Germany! This is a daily blog of my observations, reflections, and other mental meanderings.

Day 20, Thursday – Visit to a Stadtteilschule

Our group of American students, in addition to Betsy, Raphaela, and Anja, toured a Stadtteilschul...

Alex Ford Posted on April 21st, 2016

Day 19, Wednesday – Erdogan and Lüneburg

Today we began with Ms. H's 10th grade geography class. One student gave a presentation on the mo...

Alex Ford Posted on April 20th, 2016

Day 18, Tuesday – Talking Politics

We returned to Ms. S's 7th grade class for our first class today. She outlined on the board what ...

Alex Ford Posted on April 19th, 2016

Day 17, Monday – Just Another Manic Montag

Today was the first day at school for which Libby and I scheduled our own classes to attend. We h...

Alex Ford Posted on April 18th, 2016

Day 16, Sunday – Spass in Hamburg Pt. 3

Miniatur Wunderland is in the Speicherstadt district, which used to be a warehouse district for t...

Alex Ford Posted on April 17th, 2016

Day 16, Sunday – Spass in Hamburg Pt. 2

The four of us went to Miniatur Wunderland, which features these huge intricate models of real, h...

Alex Ford Posted on April 17th, 2016

Day 16, Sunday – Spass in Hamburg Pt. 1

This morning we went on a harbor boat tour with members of the society associated with the Univer...

Alex Ford Posted on April 17th, 2016

Day 15, Saturday – Bremen and Handball

We began the day with about an hour-long train ride to Bremen. From the morning to the early afte...

Alex Ford Posted on April 16th, 2016

Day 14, Friday – Trial by Feuer

Libby and I knew we would be leading a 5th grade English class this morning, but we thought we wo...

Alex Ford Posted on April 15th, 2016

Day 13, Thursday – Visit to the Waldorfschule

Instead of going to our regular school placements, today we visited the Waldorfschule (Waldorf sc...

Alex Ford Posted on April 14th, 2016