This last week I had two separate visitors, which was all very lovely :) and involved many a trip to the Christmas markets in the snow. However, in these 7 days I also ... made 4 trips to Cologne airport ... caught 24 trains ... around 10 buses ... and got stranded at Koeln Hbf for 2 hours because of a snow storm.
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| Schneesturm |
Said snow doesn't seem keen to go away. In the last week there have been more days with fresh snowfall, than those without, and consequently we now have about a foot of the stuff. Pretty? Yes. Practical? No.
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| Unecessary amounts of snow |
This morning my first two lessons were cancelled yet again, only this time it wasn't just my class. For some (still unknown to me) reason, Klasse 5 & 6 were given the first 2 lessons off, only some of them didn't even know that (namely the class meant to be going swimming) and nor did half the staff. Cue many annoyed people. I was also caught out again later when asked to give a spontaneous talk to Klasse 5 about Christmas in England... not too difficult at face value, until after saying only about 2 sentences and being greeted with the blankest of blank faces, I realised there was no way in hell that these kids were going to understand me if I carried on in English. Time to whip out some dodgy German and attempt to explain mince pies / Christmas pudding / crackers etc.
Anyway, my suitcase sadly won't pack itself so I'd better go give it some help. As for tomorrow - Daumen drücken / fingers crossed!
* one more sleep
(Dienstag 21. Dezember 2010)
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