Kinder-Uni

Each semester Goethe University puts on a "Kinder-Uni," which means the university offers one week of lectures geared towards grade school pupils. Lukas's mother, who also teaches at the university, was able to get Michael's class tickets for yesterday's lecture "How much geometry is in a soccer ball? Nothing rolls without math." 

It was very sweet that Michael really wanted me to join Nina as the second parent chaperone ("like when you were the class mother in California"). After we learned about the different shapes that can be used to make soccer balls in the campus's new lecture hall, the children were free to run around and climb on the sculptures on campus. One of the children came up to the teacher on the walk back to the subway station and said it was "his best morning ever."