Highlights of the Work Week, 13-18 June 2010

Monday was actually by far the best day of the week. It didn't rain in the morning, but was cool as well. There's going to be construction in the depot in the museum in the next couple of weeks, so we had to rearrange things to make way for the workers. So I not only got to wear jeans and a tshirt to work, but I got to walk around, carry things and look at cool old stuff. I realized that I really miss moving around during the day, like at Sherwin Williams. Sitting at a desk all day kind of blows. But we actually rearranged everything in one day. I didn't do a lot of lifting, because most of what needed to be moved were gigantic wardrobes that were even difficult for several men. Though I did help move a seven foot tall artists' easel. During the vesper break, Frau Contenz mentioned how Frau Haas, the secretary liked to talk. She looked at me and said, "You probably know half her life story now." This is exactly how it is. Frau Contenz also said Frau Haas lives alone and gets lonely, so she talks to us. This is completely true, and to further prove my point, later that day Frau Haas asked me how my weekend was. I spoke three sentences in about a minute. The next twenty minutes were spent listening to Frau Haas tell me about her weekend, even though I didn't ask.
Monday had fairly rainy weather and I actually walked home in the cold rain. It was not so fun and I looked like a drowned raccoon when I finally got home. Mascara bleeds, you see. I then ate my first Berliner, drank some tea and somehow by the grace of God, won a game of Rummy. But this was real Rummy, were there were no pairs, only runs and you could opt for a card if it wasn't your turn and if a card wasn't picked up once it was discarded, then it was in the trash permanently. So, I won, but I think I like the rules I learned by better.
Tuesday, I received the text for the Plant tour Frau Auer wrote. She said I could translate it if I wanted to. So I looked up all the words I didn't know. Then I spent a while making a color-coded calendar of all the WM games left. I think I spent about two hours on it. But its very pretty and organized. In the afternoon, I, drawing on some inspiration from a friend, drew a giant castle in space next to a space waterfall. Its pretty cool. A little cuter than cool, really, but oh well. I then took several pictures.
Wednesday I took all of an hour and a half to write out the English text of the tour. Other than randomly amusing myself and going to the library, I don't' remember much else of what I did. But it did rain all day. Frau Reinl picked me up at the train station (more on that later) and we did a little grocery shopping before going home.
Thursday I went to Europa Park, so I didn't work at all.
Friday, today, I spent almost two hours designing a crossword puzzle for some kids using my tour vocabulary. I then decided it needed to be pretty, so I drew a dragon and then a unicorn on it. And took pictures. I doubt my computer at work would let me download a crossword puzzle maker, so I drew it all (boxes and whatnot) on graph paper with a pen and pencil. That was really the only work I did, aside from review my other tour worksheet for highschoolers. As of now, I have three tours (in English) booked. But the first one isn't until June 28, so I have a while. Frau Auer then told me at noon I could go home early.
This was especially cool since the first WM game (that's World Meisterschaft, by the way, otherwise known as the World Cup) started at 1 30 and Germany was playing. So, I dallied around for a bit, caught the 12 55pm train home, walked up a hill and let myself into an empty house. It then took me fifteen minutes before I could figure out how to turn on one of the four tv's here, but I succeeded and watched some soccer. However biased and awful it was.