There and Back Again: A Houle's Tale

In response, first, to your comments:
SAT changed, I believe they made it more like the ACT with more grammar and sentence structure and whatnot and no analogies. I'm not sure exactly what else.
The classes are going fine, actually. At least the ones I can understand are. In German, we're reading a book, Jugend Ohne Gott (Youth without God), also by Ödön von Horváth, the one who wrote the play, and I'm understanding it quite well. It's fairly interesting and its cool to be able to read real German literature and not some synapsis or watered-down summary that Herr P gives us.
Math is going really easy, the only trick is the vocabulary. The notation is also a bit screwy, since they flip their commas and decimal points from how we would use them. 4,527.893 would be 4.527,893. Therefore, their coordinates are also odd, and each point always has a name, such as P(8/-3) for what we'd just call (8, -3).
English is pretty fun and really easy. There's also a class called Geschichts Kunde which is a social science, sort of a conglomerate sociology/civics course of some sort. That's probably the hardest. Also, we've missed a lot of classes this week because of various reasons, so I haven't hit any of the hard sciences, religion, or gym class. There's still a bit for me to experience, so I'll try and keep everyone updated.
Speaking of which, tying into Chris's post and my update, I had, for the first time today, Geschichte, History class. I'd said I'd had it on Monday, but that was actually GK. The History teacher is really weird and felt like talking to me in English the whole time. I mostly didn't feel like telling him not to, but I tried to answer in German.

"How do you like Germany?"
"Gut."
"What do you hate the most?"
"Emm... Hate the most?" He'd phrased that one weirdly, but nodded at my question. "Zigarretten."
"Ah. Hate the cigarettes, smoke cigars then. Have you tried the beer?"
"Ja."
"Gotten drunk?"
"Uh, no."
"You should try more beer then."
Laughter from the class.
"Do you like these pretty German girls then?"
"Uh. Yeah."
"Fancy one yet?"
"Uhhhhh..."
"Not yet, I'm sure Angelika can help you with that."

He's really a weird guy.
That's pretty much all that was eventful today.