Hi everybody,

We want to tell you about our days at school, i.e. Goethegymnasium Hildesheim, which are not really whole days.

We start at 7.55 and are finished at 1.10 p.m. Only once a week we must stay on until 2.50 pm., because then we've got a period, where we speak about organizing special things like e.g. this e-mail project, or going to the theatre together or some field-trip or other.

One period has 45 minutes, then there is a 5-minute-break. After every second period there is a longer break of 15 minutes where we must leave the classroom and go out into the school yard (grrr!).

After the 6th period there' s lunch break. We have lunch at Mensa (a sort of cafetaria) , which is in the basement. Lunch at school is something rather unusual at German schools. But since we have lessons in the afternoon, we do have school dinner.

We've lessons in 13 different subjects, the most important of which are German, French, English, Maths. Then there are the science subjects like Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Also there are the social studies subjects of History and Civics. Finally there is Art, P.E. and Religious Education.

It's hard on us, school, we've got 31 lessons per week, we are supposed to write 24 big classroom tests in a year and some 36 smaller tests. That's a lot , isn't it!! Not to speak of homework, which is a lot every day because usually we've lessons mainly in the mornings.

Of course, school is not only work. In the breaks we have a lot of fun. We meet friends from other forms in those booths we have, where you can sit and talk and eat and listen to music.

Another point that's typical of our school day is that we are eager to find out if some teachers are sick and miss classes! So we go and look at the notice board for it.

If you want to learn anything special, write to us individually. Here are our e-mail addresses. Also have a look at our homepage ( www.goethegym.de ) , which contains lots of things we do with pictures and all.

Front (from left): Fabian, Volkan, Frederik, Mareike, Tanja

2^nd row (from left): Corinna (short blond hair), Lisa, Nicole, Markus, Sebastian, Patrick, Felix, Sevda

3^rd row (from left): Julia, Serkut, Alexandra, Karina, Sina, Lili, Sahra, Sandra, Kirsten, Sabrina

Anzahl	Name:		E-mail-Adresse
1	Du Carrois Sebastian		S._DU_Carrois@web.de
2	Ekhterai.Sanai, Sahra		sweetmaeuschen@freenet.de
3	Führt, Frederik		F._FUEHRT@web.de
4	Gellert, Julia		Julia.Gellert@web.de
5	Gerlach, Karina		Karina.Gerlach@web.de
6	Hakim, Lilian		sweetycatty@web.de
7	Höber, Markus		Markus-Hoeber@gmx.de
8	Kahya, Serkut		Serkut@web.de
9	Kaya, Volkan		volkankaya@web.de
10	Kirchhoff, Steffi		Steffi.Kirchhoff@web.de
11	Koch, Sina		sweetlolly@web.de
12	Lohrenz, Lisa		cygirl@web.de
13	Matt, Sabrina		Sabrina.Matt@web.de
14	Möller, Sandra		Iannis.Sandra@web.de
15	Müller, Patrik		patrik.hotmail@web.de
16	Schlangen Felix		F._SCHLANGEN@web.de
17	Schmidt, Tanja	ja	Sternchentanja@web.de
18	Schreier, Fabian		Pussydog@web.de
19	Schubert, Kirsten		Kirsten.Schubert@web.de
20	Stoebe, Mareike		Oceanlightmareike@web.de
21	Ulrich, Nicole		nicki-ulrich@web.de
22	Werner, Sabrina		usambaraveilchenwerner@web.de
23	Zümrüt, Sevda		s.z.s.z.@web.de
24	Zürner, Alexandra		Oceangirlalex@web.de

Bye for now.

Klasse 9a

What would be interesting for us is, do you have something like students’ government, i.e. elected representatives of the students taking care of students’ interests in school?