Today our Japanese sensei briefly narrated his holiday in Japan (we had a one week break from class last week and he returned to Japan briefly) and at the end of it all, presented the class with a box of 'o-miyage' - wafer sticks with green tea/ green tea choc filling from Kyoto. Aww... so sweet of him even though we barely know him. *melts*

And I spent most of my Sun night sitting through most of the NDR speech ... perhaps now as civil servant in stat board cum insider I now have vested interest...