Schulball 2008 Photos Are Up!!!

Okay, it's certainly not the photo dump I've been promising, but the photos from my school's annual dance (called the Schulball) are up on Facebook. If you can get on there and see them, check 'em out. If not, I'll post some of my favorites here. And, after I get 'net access on my laptop, I have some more funny backstage photos from this event.

First, a little about the Schulball:

Every fall the Wilhelm-Gymnasium has a school dance/prom thing - the Schulball. This year, the theme was "Unterwegs" which is like "Under way". It was all about travel and going places. The teachers performed a bunch of skits and musical numbers from each country that we had an exchange program or a school trip with: America, France, Poland, and Greece. I danced with a bunch of other women teachers in the American skit. So, thousands of miles from Oklahoma, I find myself dancing like a cowgirl to "Cotton Eye Joe" with a bunch of Germans while my students laugh and cheer. It was fantastic.

There was also a group of the biggest, manliest man teachers we had. They danced the can-can as pretty ladies from the Moulin Rouge, of course. There was also a Polish song that the Polish exchange teachers and some German teachers danced to (my mentor being one of them). And at the end there was a big dance number where we all got in a line and danced to this traditional Greek music. It was the kind of dance where you all do the same leg movements over and over, but the line of you moves and whips around so that the ones on the end are really running around. Do you wanna take a guess as to who was on the end? Yessir, it was me! I did that on purpose! I had a hoot, running around onstage and laughing and getting worn out from dancing.

The dancing went on late into the night, but I was pretty beat. I rode home in my cowgirl clothes. Yee-haw!

For more photos, check out the Facebook album here.