Laugh riot in room 3306

(Setting: Morning Meeting)

Girl 1: (Looking at Girl 2) Ew. It's so gross to chew on your hair.

Girl 2: (Takes her hair out of her mouth.)

Miss R.: (Looks at Girl 1 with the intent to discuss kind ways to use words to help people, not hurt them and sees that Girl 1's finger is digging for nose gold.) Girl 1, that is really unattractive too.

Vogue.

Jason and I decided to take some pictures while I was home. Prom was a long time ago!

Isn't my brother a cutie? Oh, and hands off ladies, his girlfriend is a dream, so don't even consider the idea of being my sister-in-law. (Not that it matters, he's one loyal guy!)

At the Olympic stadium for the Hertha game. Notice the sunshine- treasure it.

Kathryn, Ben and I enjoy a pils at the footie game. Hertha lost, yet we smile. Why? Beer.
Andrea and Sara (and their three offspring) examine a diaper in my favorite baby shower game!

I also have Spidey skillz.

Rotes Kreuz

Fear not, people in emergency situations, I am again certified as a "first aider." I spent Friday and Saturday getting trained to perform lifesaving techniques... in German. Now, truly, my German is getting better, but I just can't trust it too accurately help someone with sonnenschtreike (sunstroke, albeit misspelled- well, who knows, I added each and every letter I thought might fit into the word). Everyone except for the trainer spoke English and two people did quite a bit of translating... but honestly... they gave me a certificate... Perhaps my favorite moment happened while demonstrating my ability to perform CPR for 10 minutes. (This may not sound as exhausting as it felt.) The trainer told us time was up, and yet still I continued CPR because I was so focused... oh, yes, and because I couldn't verstande ihnen! Another beautiful moment happened when we were given silicone faces to place on the dummies with instruction in Deutsch. I leaned over to the nearest translator and asked what made the masks magic (zauber). She cracked up and told me that the masks were clean (sauber). I still can't hear the difference.

Thank goodness this is like my 8th training in as many years.