Gosh, I doubt there’s a teacher whose first name I didn’t know (I mean, how do you keep such a thing a secret anyway? :P)
Yeah, I like that too.
I wonder why English doesn’t have yesternight and yestermorn(ing). 
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I have no idea - I like the sound of both of those
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I seem to think we used to have words like that a long time ago, and they died out. I remember seeing an article about similar words and thinking, I wish we still used those! It was probably Merriam-Webster on Twitter or something 
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Funny, because I thought that Italians were the ones always talking about food.
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In any case they have an entry on it, calling it archaic but also with a first known attestation from before the 11th century.
I’ll submit a correction to Memrise: Italianen praten dolgraag te pas en te onpas over eten.
(Italians adore talking about food whether appropriate or not.)
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Gisternacht? 
I’d use “vannacht” or “gisteren nacht”.
Then again, I’d also use “piste” instead of “plaste” 
And the past tense also sounds weird. We’d say:
“Ik heb vannacht in mijn bed gepist.”
Anyway all for the sake of the example given, my bladder control is fine! 
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Same here. 
I also wondered why there is no word for “the day after tomorrow”. In Germany we have “übermorgen” (= “overtomorrow”).
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And “vorgestern”, for “the day before yesterday”.
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Yes, Belgians use gisterennacht; in the Netherlands gisternacht is more common.
Pissen is cruder than plassen. The sensitive English even shortered piss to p.
Overmorrow (overmorgen) is the same word in Dutch.
Eergister(en). Works in English too: ereyester(day). The German foreyester(day) works in English as well, of course.
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Oh cool, turns out my memory is more reliable than I thought it was!
I like the idea of words for the day after tomorrow and the day before yesterday. I guess any further than that and it’d get complicated 
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In Germany you can say “überübermorgen” for the day after the day after tomorrow. But we don’t have a “überüberübermorgen”.
/edit: And we have “vorvorgestern” for the day before the day before yesterday.
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We do use “over-overmorgen” too in spoken language, or eer-eergisteren. But it is rather when you start saying the word and realise you’re off by a day, so you just add one more.
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If it’s like Dutch then like @Sushi you can but in writing or more careful speech you’d probably say something like in three days/three days ago instead.
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Really? I did not know that… but it makes sense.
Also, they’d rather say “I wet my bed last night” , as if the source of said wetness could equally have been leaving the window open during a rain or something.
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Indeed 
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You can use “überübermorgen” in writings but that’s not common. But it’s a “normal” word and in the Duden.
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We Germans say something similar …
Talking about euphemisms and peeing, we also say “washing my hands” while we mean “going to the toilet (to pee)”.
If you have a rich imagination… that’s not how you’re supposed to wash your hands! 
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Wow. 
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Incidentally, I hadn’t heard that one before I moved to Belgium.
At our elementary school there were these signs in and/or around the toilets (bathroom/restroom…) that said “handen wassen na het plassen.” Of course that was turned around at first sight.
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