This morning I woke up bright and early, totally excited to have my first German class!

I turned on my hair straightener to heat up in the bathroom, then went to get dressed.  When I came back into the bathroom, here is what I saw:

Yes, that’s Mendy.  With her entire body shoved into a teeny little drawer in the bathroom.  This cat is totally hilarious.  She loves trying to fit herself into the tiniest spaces she can find.

S got up with me, and we went out for a healthy breakfast at McDonalds.

I love the “Wakey Wakey” on the hash brown!  That’s what my daddy always used to say to me when ie came to wake me up in the morning for school.

Wakey wakey!!!!

Ah, the memories.

So anyways, we finish breakfast and drive to my class.  I go into the office and pay all the enrollment and class fees (YES, it was EXPENSIVE) for my Adult Beginner German class, and then S dropped me off at the classroom and left.  I walked in and started introducing myself and talking to the teacher and the other students in my class.  They already all knew each other, which I thought was a bit strange.  It all became clear a few minutes later, when I found out that they had already completed a semester of the class.  It turns out they started in September, and they were already halfway through the book and the German Beginner class!  So, as a total beginner with virtually no German knowledge, I was coming in to the class halfway through the year!  I looked at the work that they were doing and talked to the teacher, and it was clear that there was no way I would be able to catch up and keep up with the class.  I was just too far behind.  I (and the teacher) have NO IDEA why they didn’t tell me that when I signed up for the course.  Especially because I intentionally and clearly stated to them that I had no German experience or knowledge and I was a total beginner.

So I had to go back to the office, get my check back that I had just given them, and explain why I couldn’t take the class.  Then I had to call S and have him come back to pick me up.  I was (and still am) so sad that I can’t take the class.  I was so excited for it!  I tried looking for other classes in the area but was unable to find any.  There were a few at local colleges, but they also start in the fall and won’t allow me to come in and start at the beginning in the spring semester.  So I either need to work on my own or wait until the fall to start a beginners course

I’m thinking about getting Rosetta Stone or some other sort of language learning software.  I definitely need one with audio that I can listen to, because it is too hard to learn it properly just by reading.  I need to understand the different sounds.

Has anybody used Rosetta Stone?  Do you know whether it is good or not?  It is pretty expensive and I am trying to figure out if it would be worth the investment.  Or do you have any other language learning method you are familiar with or would recommend?

After my disappointing morning, we went home for lunch.  I had  a turkey salad with some flax seed crackers crumbled on top.  I made those crackers in my Excalibur dehydrator!

These crackers are amazing! I got the recipe on Choosing Raw.  I just soaked flax seeds in water with some garlic salt and a few other italian seasonings sprinkled in.  I soaked them for an hour and a half.  Then I just spread the mixture on my Excalibur sheets lined with parchment paper.  Dried 3 1/2 hours at 115 degrees, flipped them over, and dried another 3 hours.  Then, I had:

So incredibly easy.  And so good, even S liked them!

Mid-afternoon S went to the DMV to practice for his motorbike license test.  I stayed home and did a little cleaning.  I had a snack of a yogurt.

I also snacked on these:

I know, rice cakes are so completely empty and void of any nutritional value.  But when I saw this new Vanilla Creme Brulee flavor at the grocery store, on sale(!!!!) I had to try them.  I’m a sucker for anything creme brulee flavored.  And they are tasty.

Between this snack and my dinner/dessert, I ate the whole bag today!

Here’s how I finished off the crumbs:

On top of cottage cheese cheesecake pudding!  NOM NOM NOM.

The rest of my random dinner included celery with peanut butter, pita and baby carrots with hummus, and an apple.  Apparently my camera was as hungry as I was because it somehow ate my pictures.

Now I’m going to read in bed and nosh on candy.

I’m going old school with Nerds to start with.

Then we’ll see where my sweet tooth takes me… I have a feeling it will be in the direction of the swiss chocolate…