We have decided to sign the kids up for soccer ("football") beginning in the fall. We figure we might as well expose them while they are young and while we are surrounded by people who actually call it football.

The major bonus is that both of my kids will be in the same lesson. Kids are categorized by their year of birth over here and the youngest "team" is for kids born in 2006 and 2007 which happens to be when my kids were born. The other major bonus is that it's a weekday morning lesson. Since the kids are in afternoon school it really limits us. I don't want to be at activities until 7pm. My kids are too young for that. And I'm too old.

So as everything is over here, it's all just kind of vague. The website says the registration form is available to be printed. It's not. So I email the guy on the contact link and he nicely tells me to look harder and if I still can't find it he'll send me a pdf. I then emailed him right back with another question before I looked for the form again. And once I looked harder and still couldn't find the form (because it wasn't there) I had to contact him again to send the pdf.

This is an amount of communication that has already crossed the threshold into annoying. I am NOT that person. If I had my way I would remain completely anonymous, registering the kids online (what a novel idea! I think I am going to invent that over here!) and paying with a credit card.

But it continues. The form that he sends me has lesson/practice times that are different from the timetable and schedule on the website. So reluctantly I emailed him yet again to confirm there is this one lesson time that I want. He writes back and tells me that there is the lesson time that I want and I should just write it in on the form next to a certain spot. I felt like asking if I should stamp it with one of G's animal stamps to make it all official.

I wonder if he's annoyed. I am sure he thinks I am THAT lady. But I assure you, I am not that lady.

I paid for both kids with one check. I hope that's ok--I wasn't about to email him to ask. I addressed the envelope and it just doesn't look like enough information. Just a city. No state, no zip code... You have to put the floor number in any address... It just looks foreign. Because it is foreign. And the funniest part--I had to actually lick the stamp. I think I am going to invent sticker stamps for over here too.