My bilingual child as guest at ml school in ml country

Things got a tiny little bit complicated due to my daughter's intensive socializing (no kidding). I'd told her there wasn't school on the second day (Tuesday) because of parent/teacher meetings, but in fact there was school, sort of, but due to the P/T meeting the class teacher was less available and she and the headmistress had advised against my daughter coming in on Tuesday. My daughter, however, had made a friend in the class and they had agreed my daughter would meet her at the school gate when school was out. Except that a) I was still convinced there wasn't school, b) she told me about it too late, and c) we weren't at home at the time. So my daughter was annoyed because she'd missed meeting her friend.

However, her original friend (who's in the other second-grade class) came to the rescue: when my daughter went over to play with her on Tuesday afternoon, she called me (so strange to talk to her on the phone, only the third time ever) to ask if she could accompany her friend to handball training which took place in the school gym. And there, fortunately she didn't only have a lot of fun but she also met her new friend and was able to explain why she hadn't been there earlier.

When I asked her about the school day, my daughter told me that first they had "Morgenkreis" (they sit in a circle and everyone tells the class what they did on the weekend) then snack time, then break (going outside), then snack time, then German, then break followed by snack time, and then maths. Or something like that. At any rate, a lot of snack time. Speaking of which, the snack times seems to be bartering time - my daughter got strawberries in exchange for apple slices. They don't barter at snack time in her regular school.

So between 2½ afternoons with her friend, one morning in class, one hour of choir and one of handball, there was lots of "peer ml time".