Keeping Busy

So I’ve been wanting to blog for ages but have been doing too many things, which irritatingly I keep wanting to blog about. It keeps building up and the more stuff I do the more things I want to talk about in my blog and now it’s at the point where I won’t be able to talk about anything in detail and just give an overall view type thing. Hopefully I’ll be able to do more specific posts at a later date. Anyway, now I finally have some time to actually write something I shall give an update into how things are going.

I think I can say I’ve managed to gain a social life comparable to the one I had in Durham which is great. In other words I’m doing something almost every evening and it’s hard to fit everything in. Monday is Sneak Preview night at the local cinema, Tuesday is board games at Mytholon (gaming shop), Wednesday is RPG night (also at Mytholon), Thursday I discovered yesterday is sometimes Horspielabend (radio play evening) at Mytholon and then every other Friday is Vampire Live (a Vampire LARP that I have only played once so far but thought was pretty cool). Finally weekends are often spent visiting different cities or relaxing and most of Sunday can be taken up by the English Speaking Church. So I’m definitely keeping busy!

The days (or at the very least mornings, 12 hours work a week really isn’t a lot) are filled with school, where I’m also getting on well. I have a few commentaries in front of me that I’ll look over and correct bits of this weekend and I’m going to be playing a part in the 11th Grade’s production of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ that will be performed for the 5th Grade at ‘Fairytale Night’. I also got to wander round a museum this morning because the other school has ‘Project Week’ this week.

There have been many other great things over the past few weeks though: having Hannah to stay and seeing a very obscure but very entertaining film that was in Bavarian or Austrian German, then going to see Ollie in Ellwangen and seeing another film in Bavarian which was rather like a German version of ‘Calendar Girls’ and also discovering that small town life is pretty cool and the comedian Kaya Yanar is hilarious. I do seem to watch a lot of films but then it is my favourite hobby. I even went to the cinema with teachers from the Sportmittelschule and they also took me to a restaurant which was really nice. Then there have been the times I met with people I’ve met at Mytholon, one of whom is studying English so we met for coffee for mutual language practice. There was also a Karaoke night which turned out to be great fun because I wasn’t terrible (according to the song programme we were using) even though I did sing Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up', so effectively Rick Roll’d the party. It was definitely not my choice of song though! (I chose Monty Python’s ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’).

As far as updates go I think this has been fairly inclusive of general things. Hopefully I’ll write again before I go home for Christmas but just in case I don’t, Merry Christmas!

Oh and p.s. for all the British people reading this who care: the weather here is awful at the moment, it’s been windy and raining quite hard all day, I finally have the chance to wear my new boots but my umberella keeps turning inside out. Sigh.