First Day: Survived

Just came in from my first day at school and I think it went quite alright. I had five 'groups' today of which only one turned out to be a group of two whereas the other students came on their own. Two of them really impressed me with their command of the German language while the others seemed to be either shy or not as good in German as the other two ;). One of the students is Deputy Head Boy which is another thing not made up by J.K. Rowling, by the way ;). I've realised that I don't have any idea as to how the English school system works. At least, I found out that there are four periods of 70 minutes which are split into lessons of 35 minutes and that I can go home at 3.30ish at the latest.
Lorna also gave me my timetable and I suppose that Thursday and Friday are my favourite days of the week already, since Friday is my day off (long weekend every week, yay!) and I don't have to come in until 12 o'clock on Thursdays. The timetable might magically fill up in the course of the month, though.
I spend the lunch break in the staff room and was quite amazed what the staff talked about...something about a TV programme that praised the female body. In the programme, polygamous women apparently were running about naked and eventually moving into a German 'free love for everyone' commune. I was warned that this was a normal lunchtime chat. Not that I'd mind, I just didn't expect that.
My PIN number for my debit card was in the post as well as a fancy PINsentry machine that I'll need to do online banking. Since I still don't have my card (or money on the account, for that matter), it just doesn't do me any good at the moment ;)

Viki, have you noticed that Harry P. was born in 1980 and his parents were only 20 when they had him?