Dana's Deutsches Abenteuer: Schulfrei - Visit to the Grundschule + Döner und Gelato

Today was a day off of school, so I got to do a couple of fun and different activities that aren't typically part of my weekday routine. In the morning, I got to go to the Grundschule (elementary school) that my host mom works at to help out with the activities that were going on there today. They also had the day off of school, but the kids were allowed to come to school for daycare and to do crafts and play games. I was helping the kids make some cute little bead dolls. It was a really good experience spending time with the young children (the kids I was helping were mostly 8 yrs), because they didn't speak any English (as a far as I know). This meant that I had to pay attention to what they said and I could never be tempted to ask for an explanation in English like I sometimes am in other situations. I actually understood pretty much everything that the kids were saying, and I could hold a decent (basic) conversation with them. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about conversations I have with other people who are my age, or my ability to understand sozialwissenschaften and similar classes, but hopefully I'll get there at some point.
At noon, I headed to the train station and went into the city. I met up with Ashley in front of the Rathaus...after a little confusion when I accidentally ended up at the back of the Rathaus instead of the front. I've been here for 7 weeks already and I still hadn't tried döner (not sure how I managed that) so we decided to give "Dana Kebap and Burger Box" a try. The döner was really yummy and the price was pretty reasonable, so I think I'll be going back at some point in the hopefully near future. :)
After that, we went to a Gelateria that had the most flavors of any gelataria I've ever been to (not that that's very many...but still, it was a lot). The 2 flavors I got were walnut and Hanuta, which is like a type of hazelnut cookie/biscuit thing. It was like 60 degrees outside but it still tasted good. I think I'm going to need to join the "it's never too cold for ice cream" movement that I saw some CBYXers last year mentioning. :P
I also bought a couple of art supplies today, because I did't really bring any with me, and now I'm in Kunst (Art) LK. I'm going to Köln tomorrow with Kunst class, so maybe if I'm motivated I'll post about that too! :)
Once I got home, I got motivated to go running in the forest near my house. It was sort of raining so I only went for like 30 min, but I'm really excited to go explore more there soon. It's really pretty!