HI, my name is Marieke Herz. I’m from Germany. I’m 13 years old. I’m now an eighth-grader at Gymnasium Hankensbüttel. It’s a middle school in a village which is called Hankensbüttel. It usually takes me 20 minutes to get from home to school by bus. There are about 1,200 pupils and 100 teachers. It’s a really nice school.