Winter Break IV (Berlin, etc.)

[Note: if you're one of the complainers who have been demanding more posts, notice that I just gave you 4 at once. Reading should begin with Winter Break I and move back up the page.]

So we headed back to Berlin from Budapest, planning to spend just Saturday night at Colin’s before going back to Zwonitz on Sunday. But we couldn’t find any Mitfahrgelegenheits (With-Ride-Opportunities, thank you to the German language for its literal and compound nature) from people driving from Berlin to Chemnitz or Aue on Sunday. So, since Bill’s schedule has changed from Monday through Thursday to Tuesday through Friday, we decided to go home Monday and give ourselves more time to nurse our hangovers from Saturday night (which was awesome, but I’m getting sick of writing).

So home we went, to find that it had been snowing the ENTIRE TIME WE WERE GONE. Like, the snow was deeper than I’d ever seen it. It was crazy. But it was a fairly sunny week, warming up a bit. I don’t know if it’ll last, but spring is creeping ever closer, so I’m hopeful.

This week I’m studying for another Sexuality exam, preparing for a group project and an individual term paper in the same class, and a term paper in my Gerontology class, as well as normal weekly assignments. So I’m busy. I’ve also been asked to teach another class next week, with the 5th graders. And I’m going to the 6th grade classroom as well on Tuesdays, and the teacher would like Bill and I to both teach lessons, and teach some together. And in English club we’re having our girls read “The Lottery,” that really creepy short story every American (it seems) read in middle school or high school. So that’s fun.

In a couple weeks we go back to Berlin for a weeklong Fulbright conference or convention or whatever. And then Bill’s mom, who will be at a publishing thing in Frankfurt the same week, will be meeting us in Zwonitz for a weekend. Should be very interesting, as I don’t know what of Zwonitz might interest an American visitor. None of it really interests me much at this point.

Oh, and before I sign off of this terribly long post (which I might break up into several, but it should be known that I wrote the whole thing as a five page single-spaced Word doc. I have not forgotten about my readers, much as a several week gap might indicate. In fact, I made some notes for the blog while I was in Budapest, so I wouldn’t forget any details. Oh, and one of the details I forgot to include, in fact, is that it seems to be every Hungarian and Slovakian girl’s dream to someday own a big fur coat, because the number of women wearing them was outrageous. But anyway.), I’d like to tell everyone that one of my best friends, Matthew Martin, has been fully inducted as a police officer, badge and all. And I’m very, very proud of him.

As Paris would say (on the show Bill and I love most, Paris’s New BFF), “Love you, bitchesssss!”