T-8 Working Days

8 school days left before summer break. Statistics like that make Mondays a little easier. So do pictures like this:



I lived in Germany when the World Cup was in Japan, and I've lived in Japan while the cup has been going on in Germany. It's just not fair. I've been here working the whole time while my friends back in Europe have been drunk for a month. But as the above photo suggests, it starts all over again in 4 years time (und natürlich wird Deutschland Weltmeister). Who knows, by then I could have my teaching license, and more importantly, real summer vacations again (teachers have almost the same holidays as the students in Oregon, don't know about the rest of the country). Friends have told me that good drinking is to be had in South Africa (the location of the 2010 finals). A country and a continent I haven't been to yet. We'll see.