British As.

I don't even know where to begin! Last Saturday probably makes the most sense. I spent most of the morning/afternoon running errands and sorting a few things out before I joined the group of assistants and headed over to Chris and Maria's. There we played a few games before going out for Chinese. A few of my students also came. It was kind of strange seeing them outside of school! I missed the last bus home so ended up staying over. I saw the bus drive past on my way to the stop. It was at least 5 minutes early. Dreadful. I then got up pretty early to get the first bus, go home and get ready to go to church. I was really rather drowsy throughout the service. It was followed by a community meal though. That was quite nice and gave me the opportunity to speak to more people. Aside from the lady who kept trying to talk to me in appalling English. She only knows a few words but won't talk to me in German. The cleaner in the internat is the same. I don't understand it at all!
Classes have all gone quite well this week. I've had some right corkers out of the students. On top of this, I've managed to either quote or make reference to 'Finding Nemo' on 3 separate occasions. I was asked to talk to the 8th class (17/18) about the legal system. So I had to find a way to extend from the 10 minutes I'd done last time. Somehow I managed it and successfully at that, although I gave up on the question 'What is civil law then?' because I haven't the foggiest. They asked quite a lot of questions in this class and at the end of it gave me a round of applause announcing that I should be an actress.
A younger class asked me to do the whole class in a Scottish accent. I declined.
I received a parcel this week. A lovely little care packing consisting of chocolate, teabags and biscuits. WOO!! If I'd had some milk I would have immediately made myself a brew.
On Wednesday, I was out running some errands when I ran into some the assistants. I joined them for a while, finished my errands before rejoining them to spend the afternoon by the Bodensee soaking up the sunshine. Quite a pleasant afternoon/evening. Plus the sunset looked beautiful

Sunset over the lake

.  We stopped for a takeaway dinner and sat in a bar for a little while. No staying too late what with 8am starts and all that jazz.
I also discovered a piano. So on Thursday I went to a music shop and invested in some music and happily whiled away a few hours playing. A student randomly walked in at one point and swiftly left. He must have heard me playing so he can't have wandered in by accident.
That night everyone went for dinner in Dornbirn. I say that, I'd already eaten though I had every intention of ordering pudding. I never quite got round to it and enjoyed some wine instead. Very relaxed. On the train home I was lucky not to get a fine. My ticket out not to be valid that day (oops) but the guy let me off with just buying another ticket. To be honest, I was struggling to understand his accent so he may have tried to give me a fine before giving up. We'll never know!
The weather has been beautiful all weekend. My Friday habit of buying a newspaper and sitting by the lake to read it was thoroughly enjoyable. This week was the turn for French. Much easier. I spent hours there and as a result of rolling up my leggings I got some ridiculous burn lines across my shins. True Brit. They've gone down quite a lot since. Apparently some of the other assistants were also around there at a similar time but I didn't see them. That night we went for drinks in Feldkirch. There was a couple that we were talking to. The girl was Norwegian and was saying just how British I am. I'm just a bundle of walking, talking stereotypes really! I got the last train home and despite having yawned my head of the whole trip proceeded to stay up late chatting to people on Facebook.
I decided to enjoy the glorious sunshine yesterday too, taking a book down to the lake. This time I was armed with sun cream. I also covered up my shins with a shirt. I passed at least 4 hours that way, catching the sun on my back. I'm a shade browner rather than just pale. Score.

View from Gebhardsberg

After oversleeping by a stupid amount of time, I spent today on a bit of a hike/wander. There's some hills/mountains right behind where I live so I set about exploring.  I had a lovely walk. It was so nice to appreciate how beautiful nature really is. It meant I had some quality Jesus time, despite not making it to church. Although, it may not have been on this week, I heard murmurings along those lines.
It started to cloud over so I made my way home. I had a lovely skype with my mother, after all it is mother's day today. I've just spent a while chatting to Maral and girl who has just moved in next door. She seems nice but I've forgotten her name already. Oh dear.