It´s been a while since I managed to get on here but I guess that just shows that I´ve been busy!
Due to the really nice rain on Saturday no forest walks or trips to France took place however I had a pretty good weekend regardless!
It seems to be that living in a very small town means you have days of extreme boredom and days when you just don´t stop. My weekend was a bit like that. I finished school on Thursday and by Thursday night I was itching for something to do! I ended up watching Popstars - nur 4 Maedchen, at Janas. A type of X-Factor where they´re trying to find 4 girls for a new pop act. See their pun there? Only 4 girls? Genius huh?
I have to say its something I have noticed with German popular culture, they love throwing the odd English word in. You´d be watching a real tearjerking moment on one of the popular soaps and they´d have just given a big long speech in German as to why they´d done what they´d done and then suddenly there´s a pause and a ´sorry.´What´s wrong with their own language? (Actually don´t answer that!)
Rant over. Saturday I spent with Jessica in the afternoon, she´s a teacher at the school and is getting married in the next few weeks. We drank tea, ate cake and just chatted. It was really nice actually. I left early evening to make my way to Landau where I met the other English assistants and we headed to Weinfest! The biggest wine festival in the world is where we were apparently in Bad Durkheim. Only 45min or so away. When you bought a glass of wine, it was 500ml unless you requested 250ml. There were loads of funfair rides and sausages. It was in essence perfectly German but it was fantastic. Hopefully the photos I´ve attached work below!
Back at school this week and I´ve enjoyed it more now that I´m involved with the classes. I´ve taken two so far and I´ve another two to take. Standing up in front of 30 fifteen year olds is no easy task, especially when you´ve to watch everything you say to allow them to understand! All things considering though they´ve gone pretty well. Pretty successful all in all.
I´´m heading to Bonn for the weekend to stay with Evan and maybe visit Louise. Can´t wait to see them and catch up.
Hopefully the next time I blog, I´ll have internet in my apartment. Enjoy the photos. I´ll put them up when I´m next free, just heard the bell!