Michael's Class Camp-Out

On Friday Michael's class had its last event (a six-kilometer hike through the forest from Ehlhalten to Heftrich, for their class party and camp-out).  The dinner buffet was amazing; I'm always impressed by the fancy dishes German families bring to these events. Despite the "competition," our chocolate-chip muffins were the first to disappear:)


After dinner and some soccer playing, the kids sang a lovely song to their teacher at the campfire, accompanied by Michael's friend's father on guitar. The kids gave Frau Kaufmann a bottle filled with mystery notes, and she had to guess who was the "most beautiful," "has played basketball the longest," "plays violin" and so forth.  She did an amazing job, and you can see by the crowd gathered around her that her pupils were really into it!

Georg volunteered to be one of the parents to sleep in the 22-man tent, and I was one of the moms who brought the group breakfast in the rain at 7:30 a.m.!  The weather cleared though and everyone agreed it was a good farewell party.  Hard to believe that this group which has been together in the same class for FOUR years and had "Kaufi" for two will be going in many different directions--to different towns, different schools, to different branches (vocational vs. academic).