A typical school day starts with a ten minute bus ride to Markt Schwaben, the town where Franz Marc Gymnasium (5th through 12th grade) is located. The school is larger than Kennedy but not huge; the total enrollment is around 1,100 students). Here are some major differences between Kennedy and Franz Marc:
1. There are two schedules. One is from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with eight classes. The other is 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. with six classes. The longer schedule is on every Monday and Wednesday and the shorter schedule fills in the rest of the week.
2. On the 8 to 3:30 schedule, the students have an hour long lunch and students 9th grade or higher may leave the campus for lunch. On the 8 to 1 schedule there is no lunch.
3. On both schedules there are two fifteen-minute breaks.
4. Teachers don't have their own classrooms, they just go to whatever room their students are in. Also, instead of moving from classroom to classroom all day, students are often in the same room for different classes.
5. Sometimes the teacher will not be present for a lesson so the students may leave.
On this particular day we had a long schedule. The first class was math, then physics, then chemistry. During the break students go to the front hall of the school and meet with friends and/or get something to eat or drink. The fourth class was French, followed by English. It happened that the teachers for the remaining lessons on this day were absent, so Julius and I got to leave school for the rest of the day.
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