Keeping busy!

I finally got the Matura Ball pictures from my colleagues! I'm not in many of them- so I don't know if I'll post any on my smugmug, but here are a couple:

Berndorf's Direktor and I after dancing

The 8th form students performing their opening dance.

Yesterday I had a meeting with the director of the Learning 4 Life language school here in Baden.  I wanted to see if I could possibly work for her on the side doing tutoring or teaching small classes.  She's incredibly nice, and I think I'm going to have fun working there (when she gets students for me); she even invited me to their christmas party in a few weeks!  It'll be good to get to know more people here in Baden.  Afterwards I walked around town a bit taking pictures of the christmas lights and the christmas market huts.  Most of the huts just sell snacks, drinks and sweets, there aren't many that sell ornaments or crafts, but it's still pretty!

This morning on the way to school I thought I saw snow in Sooß and Bad Vöslau, but when I was walking to the train station after class I realized that it was actually just the fog/mist that had fallen and frozen.  It must be just a bit warmer in Baden (not that you can feel it), I didn't notice the frozen fog here.  One of the teachers at school today invited me to go see Stomp with some of the upper-class men from Bad Vöslau-Gainfarn in January, it's a ways off, but it should be a lot of fun!  

I know tomorrow is Thanksgiving for all of you back home in the US, but here it's just another day of school.  Almost all my lessons last week, this week, and next week have been about Thanksgiving.  The TAs here in Niederösterreich actually do have a special event tomorrow though!  We've been invited to an afternoon reception in Sankt Pölten (the capital of Niederösterreich) by the Landespräsident (something like a governor).  It's a full afternoon program- complete with free tours and food!  It should be pretty interesting, and it will be good to see some of the other TAs again.

I'll be getting back from that late tomorrow evening, and then early Friday morning I have to get up and catch a train to Bopfingen, Germany.  I'm going up there for a Waldsee Thanksgiving get together, so don't worry, I'm still getting a Thanksgiving meal!  I don't know everyone who's coming, but we've all worked at Waldsee (German language summer camp) so I'm sure we'll have a good time!

So if you don't hear from me until Monday- that's why!  Happy Turkey day everyone!