Really Didn't Enjoy this Day...by the End of It

Our last day of ice skating was very memorable this year.  For a few days we were blessed with "nice" weather...sun was shining, green things were growing, we didn't have to wear long-johns with everything. :)  Unfortunately that also meant that the ice at the Rathaus had also begun to melt.  When we arrived at the ice skating rink we discovered that instead of nice smooth ice for us to skate on, we were given an opportunity to "swim and skate."  The ice was INCREDIBLY slippery...kind of an oxymoron about ice, but it was.  Every time a kid fell down, which was often, they became soaked!  By the end of our time we had many wet (and cold) kids and two students off to the hospital, with their teachers, to be checked for possible head injuries (whenever a kid falls and hits their head, the ice skating people are required to send them to the hospital just in case).  Sadly one of the students happened to be a 5th grader.  Thankfully my student ended up being JUST FINE (although he had a big bump on his head).  I personally didn't enjoy spending more than three hours at an Austrian hospital, but I was thankful my student was okay and our amazing German teacher was there to help with all the translating.