So today I started my first private lesson and a new babysitter. We seem to be going through them pretty quickly. The problem was that I didn’t have anyone available M-W afternoons. I guess it comes with the territory when employing students. It’s ok, Riki found one through another au pair. Her name is Kati, and she is from Peru. She is really nice, although I felt kind of bad because I just zoomed through what needed to be done and then left. BTW, she doesn’t speak English very well, only German and Spanish.

I had a hard time finding the teacher’s place though. First I went out the wrong exit and got kind of lost. It took awhile to find someone who knew where her street was. At least I left early enough to accomodate these kind of mistakes. And then I thought she told me that her apartment was on the 1st floor, but it turned out it was on the 4th. All is good though. We had a good lesson! It took me a little while to get back into the swing of things. It’s amazing how rusty your brain gets when you don’t exercise it a few days. I have a bunch of homework to do tonight! Speaking 1 on 1 is so hard, I can’t just get away with sitting back and tuning out when I don’t understand. I have to actively listen and understand everything.

Needless to say, I was extremely tired after coming back. I only had to watch the boys a little while longer until Michael came home. I always feel like I’m being “rescued” when he comes home. Isn’t that sad?

Michael’s boss told him that he can hook up the laptop to our TV to watch our iTunes stuff so we bought a connector but had a heck of a time getting it to work. I gave up after about 30 minutes, and then Michael fooled around with it and got it to semi-work. The colors are just barely there and the sound was muffled since it was coming from the headphone jack. So, we just played the sound through the laptop and displayed the picture on the TV. It was ok, we had a hard time deciding if that was better than if we just watched it on the laptop. I think I prefer the laptop since we can take that anywhere and it’s in color.

We’re still sick, I’ve been getting a little worse, but we’re managing…