Back to Berlin...and BEYOND

Once again, it is time for Observations from the Kita and Ian is home being lazy. This time it is because the school is giving him time of...

A little light on news from the Kita this week cuz Ian took 2 1/2 days off. Hmph. Partially this is due to the doc system in Germany where i...

Ian has so many funny stories from the Kita, I thought it might be a nice recurring post. I started recording what he says about the class ...

Ian recently returned to school...not for himself, but to teach (lord help those kids). Everyday, he comes home with hilarious stories from ...

Saturday was Herr Mann's birthday ! I always stress about doing something he likes and making it as fun, unexpected, and untethered fr...

Ian had a photo shoot at the kita a while back to have him put into the list of educators at his school. Thinking this was low-key, he sho...

If you were to walk around Berlin, you would have no idea it's Fasching (Carnival, or Mardi Gras in American speak). However, all across...

Our relationship with Thomas is complicated. He is my parent's foreign exchange student from Köln Germany (known in English as Cologne)...

Thursday is the day Ian takes the kids to the gym, or turnhalle . Hilarity ensues. "There is a game where one little kid gets a tail....

There is a toddler in Ian's early morning class. He sees him every day. His name is Alec. At least one English parent, Alec's Engli...

Well boys and girls, it was my first day back to school, and it was damn near a snow day!  I awoke this morning to nice dusting of snow and ...

Spending time in Venlo has been awesome- even as Tymen defiantly climbs over his mum to grab computer cords. Check out some serious cuteness...

This guy makes the magic happen with his camera & some ladders. "By photographing from above and using the ground as a two-dim...

So after more than six months of teaching English to German "Kinder" around Berlin, the time has finally come for me to put up my...

There are times when I love my job, and then there are times when I utterly despise it... namely when I have a class with a little bastard n...

Hate to break it all of you who were, like me, born & raised in the USA, but kids RULE in Europe. You know that awesome jungle gym you ...