Almost one week

Well, today I met a new class of students: 7th grade English. The kids were great and the teacher was really nice, but today the class was so boring; they were literally just going through a textbook and workbook, and I didn't even have one to follow along with so I was just bored, and tired. I don't have to go to that class tomorrow though because they are just having a test so the teacher told me not to come. These kids asked me a fair amount of questions and I would catch them just turning around during class and staring at me. During their break I had three girls come up and say: "isn't Lee a Chinese name?" I thought really?...I always get the Asain thing! I just said it was spelled differently.

Nothing really interesting has happened though since yesterday. It gets kind of boring and lonely during the week just because there isn't a whole lot to do, without spending money. I'm sure once I am more active in the classroom I will have more to do, but right now I am just observing so there isn't really much to do for that. I wrote a paper last night for my student teaching class back at UK, so that was productive, other than that I caught up on a bunch of shows online last night. I also went shopping, but I think I already talked about that. I was done at class at 935 yesterday so even when I got back from shopping it was only like 2 in the afternoon. I watched: Brothers and Sisters, Modern Family, Jersey Shore, and 3 episodes from Dexter season 4. Quite a boring night, although I was really excited to Skype Elizabeth before the first student teaching seminar last night and got to see a lot of my school friends. That was super exciting, made my night for sure!

Today I didn't have class until 1145, so it was nice to be able to sleep in a little later. In an effort to not just sit in my dorm alone all night, once I got back from school I grabbed my book and went to Starbucks. I just now got back, I was there for about 3 hours just reading in my book. I finished the book and it was very good! It is called The Pact, by Jodi Picoult...I would definitely reccomend this book. I brought two other books with me, but at this rate I think I am going to need a lot more to keep me busy!

Supposedly, tonight at 7 there is supposed to be a pizza party thing on the fifth floor, so that is something to do later tonight which is nice. So I just have a little time to kill now before that happens. I haven't met anyone on the floor, so hopefully I will be able to make some new friends there tonight.

Kyle and I were talking last night about it being kind of boring during the week, so I think we are going to start doing more ike tourism things once we are done with classes next week so we have something to do. I think I remember Evelin or Emilie saying that Thursdays were free museum days for either students or teachers, either category works in our favor so that is something we are going to take advantage of because there are a lot of great museums here, and I think we are going to take some tours...so that will be good. I really enjoyed going to Starbucks today though and reading, I really like reading and haven't been able to just sit down and get lost in a book for awhile so I like that I will be able to do that more often while I am here.

Anyway, that is about all I have to say for now. I'll keep you posted! O and the weather has definitely turned into typical Cologne January weather....dropped a noticeable amount since I have arrived...but no snow!