Today was my first day of school! It wasn’t bad. The teacher was no Connie. Actually, her name is also Connie, but she’s not like my teacher in Munich, personality-wise. She seems to really stick to the text book, which is fine I guess when the class only lasts an hour and a half. It’s so short because we’re only six people—three au pairs and three house wives. I can’t remember anyone’s names yet, but the other au pairs are from Georgia (the country) and China. Two of the housewives are from Brazil and one is from Sweden. The Swedish lady brought her dog to class. One of the Brazilian ladies, by way of introducing herself, told everyone that her favorite book was the bible. Everyone seems nice, even if I don’t foresee myself becoming close friends with any of them. 
 
And since the Neubiberg VHS is right next to the S-Bahn, I can easily go into the city for a few hours before I have to come home and start getting myself ready to go pick up Julia. So I pretty much know what my life will look like for the next two weeks until Ader gets here. I keep thinking about all the things we can do with four whole days and (I’m still hoping) nice weather. I’ve still got things on my list of touristy things to do in Munich, plus we could get a Bayern-ticket and take a trip, maybe to Salzburg.

I know I’m probably worrying for nothing, but I haven’t heard anything about my visa yet. On April 12, I’m going to have to have my visa or leave the EU for thirty days. I really hope that doesn’t have to happen, because if I go home for a month in April, I don’t know if there will be much of a point/enough money in my bank account to come back for the first half of summer.

But okay, I’m probably worrying about nothing. My visa came just in time once before, and that was when I was trying to navigate everything myself. So anyway, if things go as planned, Easter weekend will be nice. Either I’ll be joining Beata and Gregor and Julia on their trip to Belgium and meet Ader in Brussels or Paris Amsterdam, or I’ll have a super-peaceful three-day weekend here in Munich. And then in May we may take a long weekend and go to London. In June maybe we’ll go somewhere with a beach, and in July I come back to New Jersey.

For the moment it looks like I’m going to accept my fate of being in debt and go to Miami, unless Rutgers has some good news they want to send my way very soon.