A fortnight of journal entries
It's been a hot minute since I have given a so-long-fare-wellness check. Here is what I have been doing for two weeks since the last post! (I know that it has been more than two weeks but too bad, you'll only get a fornight of my records for now). Monday, September 19 Of all the things I imagined going wrong on my first official day as an English Teaching Assistant (nothing to do, getting lost, expected to work full time) I didn’t expect I’d show up at the wrong school entirely. As it turns out, my contract should’ve stated Kurt Tucholsky Oberschule (high school) not Grundschule (elementary school). I realized this when the office staff at the elementary school told me that the building and teacher I was looking for did not exist and they have never heard of Fulbright. At this point, I had no way to contact my teacher or any idea how to get to the school, so I prioritized purchasing a SIM card so I could message people with international data. (I had screenshotted places near...