The redhead has the FREAKING HICCUPS!

      And it is making me so (*hic*) angry I could freaking (*hic*) bite a hippo's (*hic*) face off and/or (*hic*) kick an innocent man in the (*hic*)... oh you get my point.
  (*HIC*)
   Let's talk about a few other (*hic*) annoying things.
   But first let me (*hic*) drink some freaking water or (*hic*) else I'm going to (*hic*) hurt myself (*hic*hic*hic*)
   (*Quickly empties the half of Nalgene Water bottle and waits patiently....*)
   Ahhh.... thank goodness.
   Now. Annoying things.
   The most recently annoying thing that happened has to do with my school here. It was not sooo bad but at the time all I could think coherently was "this would NEVER happen at my school".
   So in Germany, the schools are different. I have probably explained it before.... but the brief overview is we have a different set of subjects everyday and sometimes, depending on the amount of subjects, we can get out at noon and go home and sometimes we get out at 5 in the afternoon. The other important thing to remember is that substitute teachers DO NOT EXIST HERE. If a teacher has off one day or is sick or has a flat tire or just plain can't make it, we don't have that particular class. Yesterday the last two periods before lunch "fell out" because our geography teacher wasn't there. Now this can be alright normally, but it wasn't yesterday, the Tuesday, the 15th of March, because on Tuesdays we have afternoon school, something no one likes with good reason and to top it off it was THE most gorgeous day any one had seen so far, it was like summer. The sun was bright, the sky was sweet light denim and you could hear the day light hours falling through our hands.
    Sometimes it happens that a teacher can move their period so that it is earlier, in the time that we would normally have whatever "fell out". Our class representative went and tried to see if we could move our biology class that would normally take place after lunch break to the period where Geography should be. It didn't end up working out because though the teacher was there for the two periods half the class had already left for McDonald's.
    GROAN. The students rushing back were too late and teacher told us it would happen later like normal and everyone became angry at him for wanting his period when it was usually. More than half the class decided that they would just skip bio and leave while ten of us stubbornly remained behind.
    Now, I understand both feelings of students. I wanted to leave too, it's not as though I wanted to stay at school for another six periods and only be learning for two out of six, that's fruitless Zeitverschwindung (time wasting). But I wasn't going to just skip a class and punish a teacher because another teacher didn't want to or physically couldn't come to school that day, that is injust. It is good for the students sometimes to have more power to express problems with a teacher and be heard, to leave the school ground for lunch, etc. These are great and important priviledges that make me love the German school system, but I also love the American system in all it's capitalism because it is simple: You go to school, you stay in the school at all times, you attend all your classes. There are no aversions of schedule and the teacher is in control of all happenings within their classroom from the moment you enter the door. When the students have more power, they abuse it, just like every other human being would on a nice sunny day, causing rebellion where it was not entirely appropriate, and forcing a teacher preach to a classroom population that you can count on your fingers.
    Oh the capitalism of American public education, where art thou?
    The most positive outcome of the day however was introducing some friends to hackysac and in return being educated about German Hiphop and Reggae by the ones who know it best: my friends.