Busy Week!

The past week has been really busy!  I won't bore you with every detail, but I'll highlight the biggies!

Apartment: After looking at a couple more apartments, I couldn't get the apartment in Amberg that I loved out of my head.  So at the beginning of the week I went back out there, talked to the Landlord again and decided to take it!  The housing office on base is a little difficult to navigate but after jumping through a few hoops, I get to move in on the 25th!  I get excused from work that day to go out with an inspector from base, sign the lease and wait for loaner furniture from post to be delivered! Hopefully all of my stuff will be here around the 20th of september!

Driver's License: I can legally drive in Germany!  Getting a license is a little bit of a process but after spending all day on Thursday, I have one!  The road signs and right-of-way laws were a little tricky to learn, they are pretty different than ours, so I'm glad the test is behind me!  A lot of people are in-processing  on base right now, so unfortunately I can't pick up a rental car until Monday because they are all rented out right now.  I'm just grateful I'll have one before I move into the apartment on Thursday!

School: I've gone in a little bit this week to re-acquaint myself with the building.  It's going to be a busy school year!  I'll start with 19 kids on my case-load with 3 more that will start the testing process at the beginning of the year!  And that's only 3rd and 4th grade!  The Sped dept is huge at VES.  We have 3 learning center teachers,  in addition to one for severe kiddos, one for emotional kiddos, one for vision impaired, and one for hearing impaired (from what I can remember, I might be forgetting someone!)  The school is way over crowded right now, I think our numbers are getting close to 650, so I will actually be sharing a classroom with Mel, another learning center teacher.

Star Spangled Banner:  Thursday night I decided I wanted to go see a movie at the theater on base.  I was tired of hanging out in the hotel room in the evenings and they were showing Harry Potter that night, so it seemed like a good idea.  I completely forgot instead of previews or adds before the movie everyone stands up and they play the Star Spangled Banner with an armed forces montage playing in the background!  Definitely hard to forget you're on an Army base with that happening!