Hey guys,

you miight have noticed the date today which is the Day of Silence 2013.
It's the first time that I did not forget it and that I participated.

I am from Germany, we claim to be very open and whatnot...

Worst start today was that I almost forgot about it. If there hadn't been my cellphone with an alarm on, I would have totally overslept it
Anyways, I stayed silent from when I entered the school building. And I can tell you it is damn hard to communicate with friends while not talking a single word! Finally I wrote down anything I wanted to say or acted weird (Yes, I did get weird looks)

What I found very surprising is the respect I got from my teachers. I showed them the official English text and they all nodded and did not call me to answer anything, one of them, my physics teacher decided not to ask me about the last lesson because of this, for which I was very thankful, my hand did hurt already in fourth period, two more to go.

My friends tried making me speak, but I managed to stay silent until the end of second period, when Helena asked me something and I said three words to explain something, then stopped. But I decided to go on anyways as this project is very important for me and I hope more of the pupils at my school will participate next year. And there was a second time I spoke when I was kinda angry because my best friend threw my ruler around.
Some of my class mates were making fun of me, but I'm used to ignoring them and answered serious questions on paper.

I will surely participate next year and I hope that I'll get some feedback on Monday from the others who met me, who where in my lessons and everything.

Yours,
Gina

PS: If you have aaany questions, I will answer them for sure!