So good news. The Lybian guy returned today. It was also his birthday and he brought us chocolate. They were “lecker”. I like him.

We also learned how to sing “Happy birthday!” in German and it was quite fun…”Zum Geburstag viel Glueck!”Even birthday boy sung it too (I guess he needs to know how to say it in the future). He’s the fourth one from the left in the photo below.

Today, we focused on numbers. A week or so ago, my husband and I watched these hardcore Bud Spencer & Terrance Hill films from 1970s. They are really quite funny if you don’t take them too seriously. One of them was about how they stopped an evil guy causing an explosion that would make everyone forget numbers. Today, I think we all felt like that had actually happened. Our teacher certainly did.

We did a lot of speaking practice again today, which even though I had learnt them a while ago, I still really valued learning how to say “…-zig” properly. 1999 was the most fun – “neunzehn hundert, neunundneunzig” Phew. Really, life would be very tricky without knowing this. For the moment, let’s just say none of us have Mobile numbers because when a German reverses the last 2 digits when they say it,  it really throws you. Guess what I’ll be doing tonight?????

I must go now but just a final thought. Me thinks the Lybian guy might return tomorrow – I think the fact that our teacher taught him how to say the different positions on a football field really helped – especially with tonight’s game and possible birthday celebrations in hand.

Ciao for now….

oohhh…. Random question!!!! Does anyone know if they have the talking clock here?