When I worked as a teacher in Germany there was always something funny going on. Some personal highlights:
- I told a colleague that I had a really cool landlord who brought round a fried egg for me. I meant mirror. The words are really similar
- I told my boss I had taken illegal drugs for my cold. I meant medication. Woops.
- One time I was waiting for a class to show up (turns out they didn't have a lesson and no one informed me - that happened way too often
) in an empty classroom and this teacher came into the room and told me to get out, I'd never seen him before and he obviously thought I was a student, but I just left the room without saying a word and went into the staff room, and about a minute later he came in too, he looked absolutely mortified
- Apparently everyone had their own designated seat in the staff room. I didn't know this. The number of times someone would come in and ask me to get out of their seat was ridiculous in the very beginning, so I took to spending break times in the staff toilet... LOL
God I don't even know, there were so many moments, I'll have to think about it later.