An account of a year abroad as a language assistant in Germany and travel in Europe.

Thursday, 31 March 2011

NEUERBURG - all aboard the fail train.

GERMANY

Hey there. You have what? Yeah, you should see a doctor about that.

If a lamb is a huge miserable onslaught of rainy grey, then yes, March came in like a lion and left like a lamb.


It's thursday night, which means my weekend effectively begins here. I'm actually fairly excited this time round, seeing as this week has been a fairly boring week and on saturday we're having a school party to go with the 13th finishing their Abiturs. Yeah, I swear we had one of those last friday.

Next week 4 English teachers are going to Birmingham as part of this Comenius project thing that was happening last September. I think I did a couple of posts about it. There's the potential prospect that I will be in charge of a weeks worth of classes. Me in charge. I'd allocate myself the title Chief Executive Awesomer. That's probably something like Der Eindrucksvolle Hauptgeschäftsführer. Who can challenge that? And if they did, I'd be all "Quiet, dick. I'm in charge."

Remember a couple of months back when I put my blood card instead of my bank card into a cashpoint? Today I gave it to a cashier in Rewe. I think I must have come across a real tosser, because I gave her the blood card accidentally and started to bag my things. I saw her holding it up out of the corner of my eye, which to me was just a generic red card.

And then she says something like "Uhh .. was?" and I said, probably a little too condescendingly, "Ja, ich will mit die karte bezahlen". I wanna pay by card. Then I looked closer and realised that my account number was 'O RH Positive' and something clicked. It's gonna be so much fun seeing her every day now. There's probably a capture of me from a security camera behind each checkout now, with an asterisk and "Vorsicht - Schwachkopf" next to it.

They're both red, get off my back. And that's right, identity fraudsters; didn't expect the card details to be photoshopped out, did you?

I'm gonna go and try and cook chicken without causing a fire hazard. Wish me luck.