Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Tuesday, June 13

 Today, we continued with classes and had a visit to the town hall (Rathaus) of Graz. 

Students warmed up for the day with charades and role plays.

Here you see students acting out painting, sleeping, and a chicken.




The role plays asked students to practice the following situations: asking for directions if you couldn't your way, asking your host family for permission to do something, and ordering coffee at a coffee shop.




After these activities, students were ready for their three classes.  Today in culture class, they learned how to play a card game.

This afternoon, we visited the Rathaus (town hall) and had hoped to meet the mayor. Unfortunately, she had an important meeting, but we still had a wonderful tour of the building with our tour guide, Lena, and we were given some refreshments and presents from the city.  








A professional photographer even took our picture at the front of the city council's meeting room. We'll be sure to share those pictures with you when we receive them. In the meantime, you can see the less professional version here. :)





We also got to go out onto the balcony of the Rathaus (town hall):






The city also gifted each student with a voucher for free ice cream, so many of them headed to the ice cream shop right after the tour. 

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