Saturday, August 30, 2008

Ich Bin Betrunken



One of our new teachers this year is from Germany. She's been over here a good 20 years, but she still has a German accent.

Her name is Gesine, pronounced ga-zeen-a. She told us we could call her "Sine", pronounced zeen-a. So now we all call her Xena: Princess Warrior. I don't think she minds. Kinda too late if she does.

She gave me one of the hand-outs she gives the kids to teach them some everyday German. There's no English translations on the hand-out and she asked me if I wanted her to give me the translations. I said no, I think I'll struggle with it for a while.

Yesterday, after we did a library search (a connector was missing from one of our SMART Boards), Xena gave me some chocolate from Germany.

It had rum in it.

4 comments:

Dhyana said...

seriously now, you end that story right before the most entertaining part. Go on mom, tell them all how you got tipsy off a piece of chocolate

Jennifer said...

So I'm a lightweight, a cheap date, can't hold my liquor (in my chocolate). And I spent Friday evening sleeping off the chocolate on the couch.

Skinny said...

Thanks for coming in on your mom - that is the best part of the story.

Dhyana said...

I thought so :)