Eventful Day

So today was the longest day I have had a school yet. I started the day with a 9th grade social studies class, with the focus being on business...great; then I went to an 8th grade English class and had about a 2 hour break then ended the day with a 5th grade English class. In the 5th grade class today they were listening to another dialogue from the book and it was an email exchange between someone in England and someone in New York. When the email from the dude in New York was being read, it took all that I had in me to not bust out laughing becuase it was a TERRIBLE American accent. It was clearly a British dude trying to sound like an American and it was comical, no one else seemed to notice though, which I guess is understandable. I actually don't have class tomorrow until 2:25 which is nice, because I am supposed to have 8th English from 8-935, but they are just taking a test so the teacher told me I didn't have to come. I'll take it.

After class today, I just came back and hung out in the dorm for a little while before Emilie, Kyle, and I went to the Cathedral. It has been pretty cloudy here recently but today was actually really nice so we decided to get our workout in by going to the very top of the Cathedral, where we could see all of Cologne. It was 509 steps...my legs were already sore from Yoga last night and I had run out of water early today...needless to say, I was dying. It was definitely a workout getting to the top but the view was awesome so it was worth it. The walk down wasn't nearly as bad, except that is is one lone spiral staircase so we were pretty dizzy when we got to the bottom. The first thing I did was buy a liter still water and chug it...never was as refreshing as it was today.

We had a couple hours just to do whatever when we got back, before we went to the Opera. The school had gotten tickets to "Aida" tonight so we went. I did not understand a majority of what happened...the opera was in Italian but it had German subtitles...neither of which helped me to understand what was going on. It was interesting though and I got the main jist of it.

I think tomorrow night I am going to see Black Swan, so that should be interesting. And I REALLY need to go to the grocery...maybe that will happen too.