happy monday!

So, I've realized that I'm almost completely unqualified for my job here. Aside from the fact that I've spoken english for the majority of my life, I still cannot tell a german why the hell you need to break a paragraph-long sentence into separate ones, other than the fact that it "sounds terrible." I almost feel bad for these kids, having to try to understand why it is they need to do the things I tell them, with little to no explanation. whoops! I've realized this after having a slight life-crisis at the convenient time of 3 am today, when I was supposed to be sleeping. It started off as a realization that my German still isn't anywhere near as good as I want it to be, followed by me wondering if I'd rather spend a second year here, improving my german, or actually get started on my real life, and possibly start thinking about what I want to do with it. I'm basically right in the time where I need to decide what I want to do with my life, and how I need to go about doing it. granted, my German is pretty damn good, especially considering I'm not a native speaker, but... what exactly is it going to do for me later in life? ugh!! so, I'm juggling a few options in my mind: 1) stay here a second year, perfect my german, and then move back to the states to do...... (?) 2) Apply to culinary schools here in europe, (germany or france) complete that here, then come back to the states, get a job in a restaurant/bakery, start to pay off my $60K in student loans (thanks BC!) 3) come back to the states, go to culinary school, prolly CIA either in NY or CA, while working to pay off said student loans, before finally getting a job. 4) come back to the states, attempt to find a "real" job which will help pay off student loans, while going to culinary school at night/in spare time. so yeah, those are kinda my options at the moment. any suggestions from anyone? comments always appreciated...
in other news, Karen and I finally got her TV hooked up to her DVD player, and watched a movie this afternoon... that was my accomplishment for the day. school today was relatively normal; I got to dissect Obama's inaugural address with my 13th graders, which was a lot of fun, seeing how much of the subtext they understood (not much of it) other than that, not really much new going on.. had a nice relaxing weekend, read alot, and hung out. Tomorrow we're gonna show "supersize me" to the kids, instead of having Stammtisch, and we'll talk about how the fast food culture of america has really spread out, and actually been blown WAY out of proportion (most of my kids would assume that its the norm for americans to eat that much mcdonalds :x)
ok, now I'm rambling... have a great week, everyone!

-seany