GERMANY
I did a little more class observation today, just kind of sitting about and being a human dictionary for times when the book version just won't cut it. I don't know how long it'll take them to cotton on to the fact that I am vastly inferior to the book in the way of definitions. Pronunciation fine, but not definition.
So I did that and was then interecepted by a kid who wanted to interview me for the school newspaper. It was actually a little unnerving, as he's about my height, and speaks German in a very low, thickly accented voice. And he decided we should do our interview in a little classroom on the first floor with only one very high-up window. A lot like the prisoner cells from the 80's at Hohenschönhausen prison in Berlin.
And then, in that low, German accent, he asked me questions like "What are you doing in Germany?" and "How long have you been here?". I felt like the bloke at the beginning of Das Leben der Anderen. It was scary.
Other than that, I'm helping to teach kids about the media on Friday in a lesson which I hope to God will be a 'team-teaching' sort of thing, as I can't talk about British media for 45 minutes in any language. I have a copy of The Guardian and The Times, whose political bias I'll probably exaggerate a bit for a little more food for thought. We'll have none of your moderate bullshit here.
Lidl is officially out of Chocomel. I've watched the number of cartons decrease on that shelf for 2 weeks, clinging to hopes of 'they'll have a new batch delivered tomorrow', but it never did. I have officially single-handedly veto'd Neuerburg of chocolate milk. At the moment I'm drinking the replacement, stuff called Latte Nocciola, which is pretty much liquid Kinder Bueno. This should also have been wiped from the face of Neuerburg by the time the week's out.
I'm still hunting for Hobbys while I'm here. I'm far, far from the point of 'maybe I could get a weekend job in Neuerburg!' before any of you even suggest it, but apart from sketching, theres not a lot to do. Yeah, I'm probably not doing the whole 'completely embracing the culture' thing just yet, but thats partly the reason I need something to do until then. I went for a walk in the woods today, that was a new thing. The shitload of woods that surround us for miles and miles.
I'm gonna try and bring something new to this town, something they've never seen before. Just to liven it up somewhat. Waterboarding suspected terrorists, performing abortions in the town square, riding round town on a cow dressed as a gladiator. Anything.
I did a little more class observation today, just kind of sitting about and being a human dictionary for times when the book version just won't cut it. I don't know how long it'll take them to cotton on to the fact that I am vastly inferior to the book in the way of definitions. Pronunciation fine, but not definition.
So I did that and was then interecepted by a kid who wanted to interview me for the school newspaper. It was actually a little unnerving, as he's about my height, and speaks German in a very low, thickly accented voice. And he decided we should do our interview in a little classroom on the first floor with only one very high-up window. A lot like the prisoner cells from the 80's at Hohenschönhausen prison in Berlin.
And then, in that low, German accent, he asked me questions like "What are you doing in Germany?" and "How long have you been here?". I felt like the bloke at the beginning of Das Leben der Anderen. It was scary.
Other than that, I'm helping to teach kids about the media on Friday in a lesson which I hope to God will be a 'team-teaching' sort of thing, as I can't talk about British media for 45 minutes in any language. I have a copy of The Guardian and The Times, whose political bias I'll probably exaggerate a bit for a little more food for thought. We'll have none of your moderate bullshit here.
Lidl is officially out of Chocomel. I've watched the number of cartons decrease on that shelf for 2 weeks, clinging to hopes of 'they'll have a new batch delivered tomorrow', but it never did. I have officially single-handedly veto'd Neuerburg of chocolate milk. At the moment I'm drinking the replacement, stuff called Latte Nocciola, which is pretty much liquid Kinder Bueno. This should also have been wiped from the face of Neuerburg by the time the week's out.
I'm still hunting for Hobbys while I'm here. I'm far, far from the point of 'maybe I could get a weekend job in Neuerburg!' before any of you even suggest it, but apart from sketching, theres not a lot to do. Yeah, I'm probably not doing the whole 'completely embracing the culture' thing just yet, but thats partly the reason I need something to do until then. I went for a walk in the woods today, that was a new thing. The shitload of woods that surround us for miles and miles.
I'm gonna try and bring something new to this town, something they've never seen before. Just to liven it up somewhat. Waterboarding suspected terrorists, performing abortions in the town square, riding round town on a cow dressed as a gladiator. Anything.
