Field Trip to the Waldschule

Marty started his "Spring Break" today.  Since Seattle Public Schools calendar is different than ours sadly his vacation days do not align with the kids.  VERY frustrating. Especially when they have TWO full weeks of spring break the weeks after he has his week of vacation.   

But it does allow him to be involved in the kids school those weeks.  Benjamin just so happened to have a field trip on the first day of Marty's vacation so he signed up to chaperone. 
It is always fun to attend one of the kids field trips and when we were in Seattle I did it all the time and Marty never was able to.  Since moving to Germany he has chaperoned a few of Josie's and this was the first for Benjamin's.
The day trip started with a walk of about half a mile down to the Sbahn train.  All the kids either have their own transportation pass or are part of the class train ticket.  Every kid in Berlin (ours included) know how to "do" the

public transportation.  It is one of the big things we are gifting our kids by living here.  I know it may seem small but knowing how to navigate a city is a big gift.
They arrived at the Waldschule "Forest School" in English.  The entire day was conducted in German and the only three people who were not fluent in German were Benjamin, his buddy, Zeke, and their teacher who comes from Wisconsin. 
Next year Benjamin will go on a 4 night (!?!?!) trip to a Forest school where they learn how to build fires and survive in the wild.  So this is in a way a preparation. 

The were supposed to see animals and learn things about nature.  In the end Marty said that they saw one dog with one human.  Some birds too I suppose but that was the end of the animals sightings. 
Both boys had a great time on their field trip.