Today
I have finally booked my one-way plane ticket to Hamburg Germany where I plan
to begin my next chapter. One of the things on my list of stuff to this summer and whilst I’m away was to start a
blog and hopefully keep it up to date with my “going ons”. For those of you who
are not aware of my plans, I have decided to spend the next 9-12months being an
au pair to 4 children becoming their very own Irish Maria Von Trapp. One of my
main duties whilst there is to improve their English; this is a task I am aware
will come at great amusement to most of you as my dialect is hard to understand
at the best of times. I’ve only just purchased a German dictionary and some
audio cds in the hope to learn some phrases to help me there (I’m sure some of
you will be saying I should be buying the new Oxford English Dictionary). For
the mean time I have less than 4 weeks to learn some basic German words such as
“stop doing that”, “don’t run with scissors” and “where can I get a good pint
of Guinness?” This blog will be of no real meaning in the sense of media or
political or even musical awareness but simply an easy way to keep those of you
who are interested updated with what I am doing in my year of learning German
and their culture and learning how to look after 4 pre-teen kids. I hope it
will be an interesting year and maybe provide some funny antidotes for your
reading pleasure, if not, ah well. In the word of a current meme YOLO!
