Amrum

Backdate this post to June (and then you can tell how 'out of it' I've been..or busy. One or the other)

I had the pleasure of accompanying the 5th grade on their class trip to Amrum, one of the Halligen islands in the North Sea.

It was idyllic.

There we were, between sun and sand for four days that passed too quickly.

We walked

(and during the walking I made some sand meanders :) ),

we sang (each night before bed on this hill, accompanied by Mr. N's guitar; this hill was also where I did some early-morning yoga with Mr. N, the 5th grade teacher),

we swam, we ate.

Okay, I realize this picture doesn't match any of the above listed items..but this is thatch loaded on a tractor. Thatched-roofs are very typical for northern Germany.

And somehow between all that we got sunburned,

collected shells,

climbed a lighthouse,

Can you tell a 5th grader took this picture? I have a lighthouse growing out my head...

played cards and wrote in journals every night. It was wonderful.

It was amusing to see a satellite dish--on a post--in front of a thatched-roof house.

And we saw seals.

I had to leave the island a day early in order to get back for some more job interviews. (As it turned out, what a blessing! I've now got a job!) But my heart was certainly still beating with the island as I looked back and watched it under a stormy but sunlit sky...

The theme song for the trip, that was written by a local, was on my lips and in my heart the whole 2 hours "Es liegt eine Insel im Meer so weit..nach Amrum, da zieht es mich wieder hin, nach Amrum, da zieht es micht hin." ("There lies an island, far off in the sea...to Amrum, that is where it pulls me, to Amrum, that's where it pulls me back")

And then I wrote a thank you note for them on the board: