15 Juni - So much for modesty

The weekend didn't seem quite long enough to recover from sore limbs this time, but oh-well. Went to the office and carved out a good bit of my project.  Diana stopped by and we went over some of the details for Amsterdam.  There are many aspects that still need to be resolved, but I guess I just have to hope for the best that it will all work out in the end.  She finally gave me the schedule for the Strategic Information Management Systems classes and it looks pretty intensive. I need to do quite a but of preparation and studying so I don't get lost in the assignments.  Not sure yet if I will be doing a presentation there.  I also need to prepare a 20 minute presentation on the Accessibility to Biomedical Information for the Masters class and possibly present on my program.  The trip seems to be here all of a sudden (leave next Wednesday) and so much still has to be done.  Trying to decide if I want to stay and extra day or two with Skylar to do some sight seeing.  NIN is playing the following weekend there :(

Since my bank card won't work, I needed to go in and talk to the teller to either get a new card or have the pin reset.  I went to the same bank where I set up the account and talked to the same girl who set up my appointment who suddenly forgot how to speak English.  I'm sure it had nothing to do with the 20 minutes that I had been waiting and  the half dozen people waiting behind me.  I know I can't get mad for them not speaking English, but I can get frustrated when they pretend they don't for their convenience, right? I just said fine and left. Nora said she will help me get it straightened out. Don't know what I'd do without her.

This afternoon we took our sore limbs to Stuttgart for some Capoeira play time.  My legs felt like jello not even half way through.  The studio is pretty new.. barely open 2 months so they are still setting up space and stuff.  Right now the dressing room is a curtained area in one corner of the room.  I am the only girl aside from one of the instructors, so I announce when I am going to change.  On Mondays the juijitsu group (also all guys) meets right after Capeiora. I'm sure you can see where this is going... one of the guys opened the curtain and stood there gaping long enough for the rest of the guys to turn and wonder why I was yelling "close the curtain" until another guy repeated it in German.  I finished changing and still blushing like mad sat out there to put my shoes on while he apologized and Predo promised to get the other changing room set up asap.  Nothing they haven't seen before, I guess.

Note to self: don't put a hot pizza sideways in a bike basket.  We are always starving after class and have time between trains to eat, but haven't quite figured out the best way to do it. The food at the station is ok, but I am getting sick of falafel and cabbage.  Thought we'd get a pizza to go and eat it while we waited for the train, but that meant getting it from the pizza place to the train station on a bike. A new plan is needed :)