Anyway, I thought i'd break the posts up a little bit, partly to make it easier to read but partly also so that i don't go on rambling about things nobody really wants to hear about!
So on the first night of the course our first task was to put our massive suitcases into the storage room, now this seems easy enough, but if you think it was easy i think i'm going to have to refer you to one of the previous posts where i said how massive my suitcase is. I'TS HUGE. But still, this in itself wouldn't have been an issue, had the storage room not been down a flight of stairs which just made the whole thing more like a game of "who can get a injure themselves first". Well, that suitcase got stored and the next morning my shoulders killed, but that could have also been due to all the odd sleeping and lugging stuff round all day... but anyway back to the first night.
i'm really sorry if this is confusing, but on the plus side in a way you're time travelling.. you can thank me later.
I can't actually remember what they told us in the meeting on the first night.. good sign i know! but i'm fairly sure it was just an introduction and "Welcome to Germany" thingy, anyway i do remember that they then let us know who we were going to be sharing rooms with. The way they split it was actually pretty good, they did it by putting us with the people we were going to be closest to when we finally got to where we were going to teach, and we were in rooms of 1s 2s or 3s - i'm not sure why they had single rooms, because surely there would have been people close to the person in the single room.. but then again maybe the numbers just didn't add up. I'm really going to have to stop typing the random thoughts that come into my head or we're never going to make it to the present day!!
My name was called out in the long list of room allocations and it was called out with another girl's name which was Poppy, have a good giggle now - Pip and Pop laavely! but yes, so we went to find our room and had a bit of a chat before dinner time and i also managed to fall asleep - again.
but Poppy woke me up when it was time to go to dinner and by this point i think everyone was pretty hungry, including myself. So when they brought the dishes round and i saw the rice i thought that was good, and then they brought the mushrooms round.. and personally mushrooms are NOT my best friends, i actually think they're pretty gross and sluggy but there was no escaping them with this dish, as one of the other people said it was effectively mushrooms in mushroom soup, mmmmmmmm! but i wasn't about to turn down food so i ate it, and as you can tell i'm still alive to tell the tale, and i haven't turned into a slug, you can tell this from the typing - slugs can't type.
and the rest of the 3 days went on in pretty much the same way, Poppy and i got on really well and i met quite a few new people who were also lavely and i didn't have to eat mushrooms ever againnnn! (unfortunately not true but you'll have to wait for another post for that one, i'm not letting you time travel too much)
We had several talks while we were there, about living in Germany, the school systems, who to talk to if something's wrong and also one about the health insurance we receive and what is and isn't covered. this is where the sentence from the title comes in! Among other things, pregnancy isn't covered by the insurance and as the guy in charge put it "it costs thousands of pounds to give birth, so try not to get too pregnant too quickly"
We also did a practice class where we were in a group of 4 and taught parts of the body, a class which also featured simon says which was surprisingly entertaining.
Now if all else fails, the other people who are teaching in Sachsen Anhalt definitely have a future in foreign student imitation, they were very good at knowing nothing, including asking if the "ear" was called "leg".
I almost broke a finger in a particularly violent game of Irish snap, we ate some goood food - the cake at coffee time was amazing, chatted and laughed a lot, slept more, looked round the grounds, and then had a very entertaining quiz on the last night where we came in joint first... at one point in the rounds...ha!
Before we knew it, it was time to lug our stuff out of the store room and back up the stairs of doom (more injuries followed) to get back on the coaches and go on to wherever we were each going to be teaching. But i'm going to leave that for the next post!
I'll leave you with some random pictures from the 3 days so feel free to close this tab now! it just looks so boring otherwise...
<-- the view from our window!
the weather was not wet at all.. -->
No comments:
Post a Comment