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feuervogel) wrote2010-05-04 11:15 pm
feuervogel) wrote2010-05-04 11:15 pm
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First day of class and new shoes
As expected, I was placed in the C1.1 course, which is the highest level they're offering in this session. It's probably a mixture of all the C-level people. There are 9 of us, and 10-15 people in the other sections, so probably like 40 or 50 people total? I'm terrible at that sort of thing.
In my class, there's me, another American, two Swiss guys, a kid (he's 17) from Mexico, a guy from Israel, a woman from Brazil, a woman from Sweden, a woman whose home country I didn't catch, and a couple I'm forgetting. Ah well. Our teacher decided not to give us a textbook (yay), so we're doing most of our work from newspaper articles and that sort of thing. Tonight's homework was to write a letter in response to a classmate's wish using conditional sentences. I got to write a letter to a guy who wants to be successful at university. (The point is to use a variety of conditional constructions, rather than just if you X, then Y.)
Afterward I went over to Alexa, this huge shopping mall on Alexanderplatz, to look for shoes, since I found some cute ones on sale at Galeria, but they weren't in my size :P I found a pair that fit! And was comfortable! And will be less likely to make me turn my ankle on the cobblestones and uneven pavement! (My wooden-soled shoes are really problematic on cobbles. They also hurt after a while. I was hoping it wouldn't be so damn cold all the time. It's also never going to stop raining.) They weren't the first pair I tried, which were also cute, but they were either too tight (in 38) or too long (in 39).
Anyway. I came home eventually, and I met the other gal who's staying here, an Italian named Lily. She's also taking classes at Goethe. We talked a bit, then she got a phone call to go out to a club right now. She invited me along, but I hadn't done my homework yet (heh), so I declined. Maybe next time. I gave her my number, so she can call or text.
Iron Man 2 opens tomorrow, and I'm totally going to catch a showing. You buy tickets for a reserved place, which is kinda weird. But I can swing by there and buy tickets in person, during the break maybe, since the ticket stand only opens 15 minutes before the first show, which is at 2:30. I can do it if I hurry.
Tomorrow I'm taking a boat trip on the Spree, and we meet at 10:00, so I'll leave from here around 9:15, which means I should get up at 7:30 or so.
So I just spent a good bit of time talking to Andrea about when to get up in the morning and how to share the bathroom and looking at old cat pictures. Now I really need to sleep...
In my class, there's me, another American, two Swiss guys, a kid (he's 17) from Mexico, a guy from Israel, a woman from Brazil, a woman from Sweden, a woman whose home country I didn't catch, and a couple I'm forgetting. Ah well. Our teacher decided not to give us a textbook (yay), so we're doing most of our work from newspaper articles and that sort of thing. Tonight's homework was to write a letter in response to a classmate's wish using conditional sentences. I got to write a letter to a guy who wants to be successful at university. (The point is to use a variety of conditional constructions, rather than just if you X, then Y.)
Afterward I went over to Alexa, this huge shopping mall on Alexanderplatz, to look for shoes, since I found some cute ones on sale at Galeria, but they weren't in my size :P I found a pair that fit! And was comfortable! And will be less likely to make me turn my ankle on the cobblestones and uneven pavement! (My wooden-soled shoes are really problematic on cobbles. They also hurt after a while. I was hoping it wouldn't be so damn cold all the time. It's also never going to stop raining.) They weren't the first pair I tried, which were also cute, but they were either too tight (in 38) or too long (in 39).
Anyway. I came home eventually, and I met the other gal who's staying here, an Italian named Lily. She's also taking classes at Goethe. We talked a bit, then she got a phone call to go out to a club right now. She invited me along, but I hadn't done my homework yet (heh), so I declined. Maybe next time. I gave her my number, so she can call or text.
Iron Man 2 opens tomorrow, and I'm totally going to catch a showing. You buy tickets for a reserved place, which is kinda weird. But I can swing by there and buy tickets in person, during the break maybe, since the ticket stand only opens 15 minutes before the first show, which is at 2:30. I can do it if I hurry.
Tomorrow I'm taking a boat trip on the Spree, and we meet at 10:00, so I'll leave from here around 9:15, which means I should get up at 7:30 or so.
So I just spent a good bit of time talking to Andrea about when to get up in the morning and how to share the bathroom and looking at old cat pictures. Now I really need to sleep...