Weekend in Hamburg

Hi, sorry i haven't updated in a while.. i've either been doing absolutely nothing, (friday, only left the house to go for a run, otherwise watched movies) or i've been gone. this weekend, i went up to hamburg to see the city, and visit a couple of the other fulbrighters in the area. the weather was perfect, it was like 70 and sunny, perfect for walking around a harbor city... we wandered around, beers in hand, (YAY GERMANY) and saw alot of the really interesting and diverse city. We ended up staying up till abt 5am, out in a really fun, cozy bar, before passing out hard! my lovely trip did end on a bad note, however, as the ATM at the train station decided it didn't like my (correct) pin, and so told me it was eating my card, good luck with life, aufwiedersehen! i hate german atms... they're not even polite abt it! so, my deutsche bank ATM card is gone, thankfully i had enough cash for an ICE still in hand, but ended up going to the bank today, and ordered a new one.

In other news, my first week at school was good. nothing really challenging or interesting, i'm nowhere near actually doing anything constructive with the students, being that they're all still scared of me. I ended up having mostly 5th and 6th graders, which, frankly, kinda sucks.. Its great that i can help them early, with their pronunciation, but part of my project for being here was to teach a business-style american english, which is hard to do when half of the class is still wearing velcro shoes and miley cyrus tshirts (including some boys... oh yeah, we're def in europe) I'm really hoping to get my stammtisch program off the ground pretty soon, so that i can actually have conversations with the older kids, and find out more abt them, what they want to know, what they feel is lacking, etc... its all well and good to show kids spongebob to teach them english, but there's only so many seconds of that i can stand (read: 2) Today, my afternoon classes were cancelled, so i only had one... at 750... how nice... i promptly came home, and went back to bed! lets see, what else? nothing, really... this week, i'm going to hit up ikea, buy stuff for the apt, do my visa anmeldung, (hopefully) and... uhm... ? do other things? i really do have too much free time... i need to pick up a hobby. or a german. a swede perhaps?
have a great week everyone, i will be posting pics of hamburg momentarily.

-seanyB