its the weekend!

so this week has been fun... I got to teach some classes by myself, which was challenging, but it made me feel like I might actually have a reason for being here! I got to work with two 6th grade classes, one, while waiting for the teacher to show up (she ended up being like 20 mins late) and so I occupied the kids in the meantime going over vocab and verb tenses. The other class was given to me a couple days before, so I got to prepare a lesson for them. It is one of the more difficult classes, and its the last period right before lunch, so they're extra antsy... lots'o'fun, basically. I ended up having to make them late for lunch because they wouldn't sit down and pay attention.. Thankfully there was some anger from the kids that were behaving towards those that were being douches. there's also a kid in one of my 5th grade classes who looks just like an overweight harry potter, glasses and all. his name is leopold, and I can't look at the kid because I can never keep a straight face, i just wanna laugh.
Also this week, I've had a sinus infection (the first of many, I'm sure) brought on most likely by oktoberfest and its activities. well worth it! So, instead of going back to hamburg yesterday for the day of unity festivities, and up to bremen today to tour, I've elected to stay home, eat lots of homemade chicken noodle soup, and sleep. So far, since friday, I’ve been awake maybe 10 hours? its been quite nice just relaxing in my jammies, drinking lots of tea, eating comfort foods like baguette with nutella, watching movies, and just generally lazing around. Who would've thought it'd be nice to take a break from my otherwise not very stressful life?
In other news, I STILL haven’t gotten paid by the fulbright board, although that will hopefully happen soon. I needs to pay my rent, and hopefully buy food!! I'm also planning on heading down to Stuttgart next weekish (we have fall break from Oct 8-26) to visit the Marstallers, Charlotte, and anyone else I can find that’s still down there. I also am gonna try to go to Ireland (pending payment from Fulbright) to visit the girls from HYC. I have two weeks to do whatever, so I am going to need to get out of here for at least PART of it!
Ok, that’s all that’s even remotely interesting in my life at the moment… I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!
-seany