So this was a hectic weekend.

On Friday I was contemplating joining mom and dad at the German American Club, for dinner. They were going to pick up three musicians who would be staying at our house for the weekend. It makes it easier on the club then finding hotel rooms for the entire german band. However, Amy called and asked me to watch her kids and since watching her kids meant having access to her laptop, I agreed. (That is not the only reason I agreed. It was a big factor though. Come on..I'm going through laptop withdrawl.) It also gave me a head start on the stuff I needed to get done for Rally Day.

Amy and I are co-leaders for the women's group and as such had to come up with a table full of information for Rally Day at church. Most of it was not a problem, but I had decided that I wanted to make a brochure, with all of the information that people could take with them when they left. Not a big deal for me...until you factor in that my computer is gone...along with all of my programs. And my parents computer my be newer, but it does not have the same programs.
So Friday night was a pretty productive night. By the time I had gotten home, the German visitors were already asleep so I didn't meet them until the breakfast the next morning.

On Saturday I was watching my parents friends dog, Schnitzel. (When the doggy frustrates me I tend to call her chicken cutlet.) When I woke up Schnitzel was in the house already and the two younger german girls were playing non-stop with her. We had three girls with us. A 26 year old teacher and two younger girls, 13 and 14. After a quick "german" breakfast (wurst, kase and brot) I had to disappear to Amy's to finish up working on our Rally Day table.

I almost finished the brochure before I left and we printed out everything Amy would need to be creative with on our display board. ( She is a wiz at scrapbooking. She does with real materials, what I do on the computer)

By the time I got home it was after noon and I had once again missed spending time with the German girls. But that was OK as I still had work to do. Including making a sign up sheet for the choir table as well as two informational sheets about choir, finishing the brochure for women's group making a sign up sheet for our first activity, getting the brochures printed and figuring out what to do with my sunday school class when I couldn't hold class ...in a classroom.

So, I have to get to staples by 8:30 in order for them to have time to print my copies, but as I use my parents computer at 7:30 to finish the brochure I discover that they don't have the right programs. Their computer wont open my files. So after a frantic 20 minutes of trying to find a compatable program, I run down to Amy's finish it there, print it out, and, as it was too late to go to staples, decided to run them off in black and white at church the next morning.

It was a stressfull day, but Sunday went smoothly. I set up at 9, from 9:30 to 11 I convinced people to sign up for Women's group, I registered my students for my class and when Scott, the choir director, harassed me, I went for a quick choir rehersal. After church we had a picnic. I had two sno cones and some cotton candy. I was planning on going to the Oktoberfest right from church, but my students decided to show their appreciation for having me as a teacher by giving me a group hug...after they had gone down the giant slip and slide that ending in a muddy pit. So, I had to go home and shower first to get rid of the grass stains.

The Oktoberfest was wonderful, as usual. And Katrina had a tent for her German class set up. That night, Mom and I sat up with our visitors and talked for a few hours. They left early on Monday to catch a bus to Niagra Falls and then it was on to Toronto for their next "gig".

I had the rest of my classes this week. So far so good. On Monday night after my class I ran to church for a Parent meeting for youth group. I'm a chaparone for the camping trip this weekend, as well as a sunday school teacher for some of them, and a discussion group leader for the junior youth group and assigned to help out with whatever else Katrina needs me for. I'm not quite sure when I started to become so active. Do we think it's left over from chemo? It's kind of creepy being this social and nice.
Anyway...I don't think I have anything more right now. So I'll post this and hope it tides you over for a few days. - Elizabeth