"Listen lady, in my county I was a schoolteacher.", "Oh Yeah? and in this country you wash my bras!" - Karen to Rosario on Will & Grace

Today is the start of a new day.  Language Course 2.0.  I'm rebooting everything and this time around I will study and make sure and take it more seriously.  I will be going to the Goethe Institut this afternoon to talk to an administrator, take a tour of their facility just to make sure Im not getting myself into a situation by surprise.  My last day of class at the current school was yesterday and it was sorta fun.  A lot of my classmates are heading back to their countries.  4 of them are going to continue on with the school.  One of them is the Palestinian, and I dont think we will be lifelong friends.  Before I begin this next story, I wanted to first give a caveat:  I am not racist, but when I think somebody is saying something very offensive I will dish right back at them and be a total hag (like you all know that I can be).  Yesterday, my Thai classmate Nicha brought her husband to class, before class started, to introduce him to us.  He's a little older, German and nice.  Nicha then excused herself to walk him back outside.  Francisco, my classmate from Mexico asked in a general sort of way, if he "bought" her.  That pissed me off because a) it's an Asian stereotype to have a mail order bride and b) as an Asian, I hate it when people think we only clean your hotel rooms or get married to a white man...but I digress.  I looked at Francisco and said to him:

I dont know, did you swim here?

What do you mean?  I dont understand...

Did you swim to Germany and enter the country illegally?  Isnt that what a lot of Mexicans do to enter a country?

Well he looked at me and I knew he wanted to punch me in the face, and to tell you the truth, I was in the mood for a fight but a little scared (hes a big guy).  He then said, that she looks like the kind of person who you would see on the internet.  At that point I told him to just shut up because we dont know their story is and it just wasnt a nice thing to say.  To say there was tension was an understatement.  I think I got a little brave because it was my last day of school and I knew I wouldnt be seeing him again.  I certainly couldnt be a diplomat.  I would start a war asap.  Otherwise, class ended early yesterday, we all took pictures and I said my goodbyes to the people I've spent the past month with. It's been a lot of fun.  I will be keeping in touch with my classmates Nicha, Manisha and Maria Laura as they will be in the country for a while and hope to get together one of these nights.