Finishing up the week

This week has been fairly easy and uneventful. Thank goodness. Most days that I work I start at 11:45 and either wait for Carlotta to come home or go and pick up Cecilia. After that I help with lunch and do the dishes afterwards. Next comes play time with the kids which usually consists of playing Uno. This card game is by far the children's favorite. I suggest has other things that I think kids might like and all I get it Nein! Uno spielen! I have given up trying to offer other games. I have also given up trying to win at all. I have that the best strategy is to never play any of my trick cards. If I do play this cards the 3 year tells me that I can't do that and then she gets upset. If I have one card left and am about to win the 3 year somehow has a magic invisible card that allows her to play all of the rest of her cards even if they don't fit without giving me a turn. I think that this is really funny, she is a typical little kid in this sense. It seems like all little kids I know cheat at Uno.
On Tuesday night I had my first language course. I was put into the beginners because it was the only one that started now. If I wanted to be in another class then I would have to wait until January or later. The class was easy. We learned how to say where we were from and how we are called. Most of the other people in the class seem to speak a little German. The instructor thinks that the class should more quickly. After going to both of the classes this week I think that it may be too easy for me, but it gives me a good practice speaking and practicing my pronunciation. I don't have to worry so much about what the words mean or how they are said. It is also nice because the teacher can tell that I speak more German than the others so I am always picked to read out loud and I am the first to lead an exercise.
On Tuesday after my class I decided to meet Jessica another American Au Pair out in the Alt Stadt. I was planning on going out anyway to watch the Liverpool Atletico Madrid game. I've decided that I like Liverpool, not for any reason in particular just because everytime I wear red or my Beatles shirt ( they are from liverpool) Liverpool seems to be playing. So far they have done well while I have been cheering for them. Jess came and met me at Maclaughlin's and we left to go find a place for good wine. Apparently there are very very few places for wine in the Alt Stadt. I am glad that I prefer beer anyway. We gound a place that had decent wine and stayed there for awhile.
We decided that we would head back home at about 12:15. When we got to our platform we saw that all of our trains had already left. We had to take a night bus. I was not sure about the night buses so Jess told me that I could go with her and stay the night at her host parent's house. I was ok with this because I did not feel like riding a scary bus all alone at night.
The bad part about staying the night at Jess' was that I had to work at 7:30 in the morning. I would have to leave her place at about 6 in the morning if I wanted to make it home in time. Needless to say I was a little tired on Wednesday.