Now officially under contract

Well, I made it. Two entire days at school are now under my belt, as it were (ha!)...and when I say 'entire days', I mean '12 hours yesterday and 8 hours today.' Needless to say, this post will be rather short, since my brain is done for the moment. So, in summary:

• Tuesday: Arrived in the afternoon, went over to school, gave parents the grand tour, went over to the family's house where I will be staying until I find a place, returned to hotel.
• Wednesday: Got dropped off by parents, rearranged and cleaned up classroom*, had 2 hours of blood-borne pathogen and medication training, continued arrangement and cleaning of classroom, ran home to change, met parents and kids at open house, discussed curriculum/general stuff with co-teacher and school director, finally got back at 10.
• Today: training, discussion of rules and regulations, generally discussing everything to death...all in German.

* Apparently some parents had come in to paint the room. It looks much nicer now, prison gray having been replaced by standard institutional white, but they moved all the furniture to the center of the room and neglected to put a tarp over it or the carpet. So I had to vacuum, scrub at the carpet to get out all the remnants of paint dust, and then vacuum the paint dust. And dust the furniture and all the stuff. Good times.

On a non-school-related note, send Heather some happy thoughts! She will be returning to the US on Sunday (?) after having spent over a year in Germany. Welcome back, Heidi!