Riley's Adventures

Sometimes, when I lived in Germany for one year, I would just stop walking when I was walking to the tram stop from my apartment and stare at the trams in amazement On the tram moments later, I watched out the window looking in amazement at the things that seemed to belong with me But as I write this, from halfway across the world in USA, I still remember it as home.

On Thanksgiving, the Dresden Christmas Market will open. It has Christmas gifts and stuff. The market is fabulous. We went there pretty much every day the market was open. To view a live webcam of Altmarkt and the Christmas Market, View the Free Webcam at ww.com This webcam does not update every 5 seconds, every 0 seconds is does. It is also HD. Above is a preview of the view you can see when you view the webcam.

On February 17th 2011, PYP in Dresden International School had an early Fasching Party. For all classes, it started at 1:20pm to 3:20pm. Each person/teacher/student received  1 free snack, and most were wearing costumes. Some of the games they did were Musical Chairs, Musical Statues, and an Egg Race. The Student Coucil PYP planned this fun, and exciting event.  Another one of the fun things were a Raffle. Students who won in 3B were Mark, Ashley, Corban, etc. Each raffle ticket was 1 Euro. They drew about 45 tickets. Everyone was wearing cool, scary, funny costumes on. Students could not wear their costumes to school. They had to change 10 minutes before this party. Here is a little interview with some of the students from DIS: Fransziska said before the party that she thinks everyone will enjoy the party. She was a princess. Ashley said she thought that she would like it. She was dressed up as a princess, also. Ms. Anne said she thought she would like it. She think...

Will, we started a class blog, which I am very happy about. Also, we are going to get doners without Maggie tonight. She is with her friend Moli, right now. Mom is being lazy, sleeping. Toga, our dog, always does the samething as my mom, so he sleeping and snoring to. Dad is driving home from work. Our next vacations we are going to are Vien, (Vien is the German Way of saying Vianna, Austria) and Paris, France. I can't wait to go all the way to the top of the Eiffel tower, which will be great. If you're wondering about my school, then click here . Also, this is a daily schdule of what my class does at school: 1.We get our blue bag, snack box, and water bottle. We put our coats in our locker, and also our backpacks, or like some people like to call them book bags. 2.We come in and look on the white board, we usally do Buddy Spelling, is where another friends in the class test us with the spelling words that the level we are at Spelling. Sometimes, we do Mug Shot sentences after ...

So Today, I woke up. In then I just started writing on this blog. I think we might be going to Mei ßen-a good city North West of Dresden. I changed the design of my blog, don't you like it? Comment! I like it with all of the stars and green background, the red dates, also.   Today is a weekend, so we're just hangin' out. Yesterday, me and mom went out to go by ourselves, some alone time. We took the Standseilbahn up the hill, walked to the #11 tram. On the way to the #11 tram, I was walking with mom and the dog  on the other side of the gate, jumped to us and started barking. Mom could have had the loudest scream in world. I could see 2 people look out there window staring at us. We got on the 11 tram to Hauptbahnhof(Main Train Station), and went to an Travel Agency(reiseburo in german), and booked our 3 day trip to Vien, Vianna, Austria in english. Travel Agencys in America are so expensive, and every one books them online. Here we got a train ticket for 52 Eur...

Some days ago, the teachers had said "Shut Up" to my class. Yesterday I made a letter to my principal saying that that word is a bad word and none of the teachers at Dresden International School/Annen Campus should not say that. I am going to give it to her today. Comment if you think that teachers should say that, or if you don't.

Dad is leaving to do some interviews next week back in NY, where I came from. I am going to have to make a list of things he can do for me there. He will be there for 1 week. Mom is getting all crazy about this, asking question and things he can do for her. I will miss him really much!:(

A DVB tram driver always is a reg. Man or Woman. They have they eyes looking for stop lights, their feet always stepping on breaks and pedals. Every time they come to a stop, they need to press the open door button, right away. When they need to turn, they have the buttons "Left" and "Right" or "Left arrow" or "Right arrow" depending if the tram is older or newer. The trams get their power from a big thing on top hooked up to a wire on the top of the tram. When a tram and another tram pass each other, they will ring a bell or do this weird hand-motion thing with their hands.

On August 14th, 2010, Ballston Spa Resident, Maggie Walz, who moved to Dresden, Germany, because of her father’s GlobalFoundries job, participated in the Dresden International School’s Zuckertuten Festival. The Zuckertuten Festival is where Parents and Siblings go and find toys, Barbies, sugar goods, etc. and put it in a large designed cardboard cone. The parents bring the cone on the day of the festival to the school. The child receives it from their teacher. When the child gets home they open the cone and see what they have & play with it. The principal gave a short speech about going in to first grade and how much fun they will have. Then the 2 classes/40 kids received their own cone. Then the Primary School teacher asked some of the kids what they were looking forward to in First Grade. After the festival, the whole school was invited to see their new teacher and their teacher’s classroom. They let everyone play on the playground and had a school fundraiser BBQ. They served w...