Day 12

Instead of going to school today, us Americans went to Duisburg to see a fake roller coaster and to do the Tour de Ruhr.  To get to the "roller coaster," we had to climb up a few hills, so on the way back down the hills I fell two times.  I think I fell because I didn´t have the appropriate shoes on.  For the Tour de Ruhr, we went to and old Iron Works that had been turned into lots of different things like a museum, concert ground, rock climbing course, a scuba diving training pool, and much more.  It was very creepy there because of all the old rusted buildings, but it was oddly very beautiful.  We climbed the stairs to one of the buildings to get a good view.  It was raining a good bit that day, so the stairs were wet.  On the way back down, I fell down a flight of stairs, so that was the third time I had fallen.  After we got back from our day, some of us went to one of the girls who came to America´s birthday party.  I got to meet more Germans that weren´t from the school. They all tried out their English with us which was very funny!  I had a great time today--except for falling three times!