American Sarcasm...untranslatable. Just wonderful!

So...it has been a while since i've posted, it's becoming more difficult to do so since the internet i use is in school. I moved into my new apartment last week, and have already found myself getting into trouble. You know...i just cant seem to find a place to live either in the US or Germany that doesnt have an overbearing family around, strict oldschool landlords, or crazy nozy obnoxious neighbors (or the drug/alcohol addict kind). sigh. just once i would like to live somewhere where i had my own space and was free to do whatever i wanted without feeling like i was disturbing someone or breaking some invisible rule...really. that would be fantastic. My second night there Patrice, Martin, Robert, Sebi, and Jonas came by with some beverages and playing cards and we sat in a circle talking, playing games, and listening to music quietly on my computer in my big bedroom/livingroom. We're we loud? no, course not. did we smoke inside? no... we're we trashed...not even close (nicht mal annehend). but lo and behold here comes dashing into my room without knocking for which i am paying my renter in his bedclothes freaking out in german saying we knew what we were doing and that we were being bad and that we were smoking in the house and that we would have to discuss this in the morning cough cough TIM!....firstly...im 23 years old, im not your son, and im renting for you and we werent loud. oh yea and my friends went quietly downstairs outside to smoke. dont come barging into MY apartment and yell at me and embarass me infront of my friends, who are really nice and respectful btw and who now feel uncomfortable coming by. ugh. what to do. turns out that he is having the neighbors watch over me and the house and what i do and who comes by while they are gone this week on vacation. they have keys....hahahahaah oh goodness. silly silly man. oh yea, and he was waiting for my orientations teacher as she walked to her car (a neighbor told him when and where she usually parks) to talk to her while i was gone about our bad first start. and how horrible and how bad it looked to have all those young people around their cozy street and in their cozy little german home. im more than slightly irritated if you cant tell. ps. before that night we were shopping for food and beer in the supermarket and some customer told the cashier that we had stole something and some guy and a few others stood in front of us as we checked out, asked us to open our pockets and bags and then took us to the back in their office to inspect our things and investigate us...meanwhile what happened was is that i wanted to buy everone a small thing of kleiner feigling, but wasnt sure, and asked if they sold single ones at the counter, which they did, my friend showed me how big it was, i told him it was too much and he put it back, they thought he put it in his pocket or something. hah. i guess we are just outright hooligans! already causing trouble in germany! pps. did i mention the party full of neonazis? ill check back later, and if i didnt, ill write about it tomorrow. Aside from that, school is fine, i was observed the other day, the superintentent was really pleased with me, was really happy i was here, and said i had a lot of potential as a teacher. said that i really make the students have fun and feel comfortable and am very clear and easy to follow. woohoo for me. students handed me their characterization-photo essays the other day and they were all really well done! ich freue mich.
namaste leute,
Shim

ppps. please look up and sign the petitions for the Burmese monks, wear maroon, spread the word.