First day of class and new shoes

[feuervogel]

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...

Comments

[tsubasa.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad you made it over safely. Pet the German kitties for me.

This may be a dumb American question, but when you go to see Iron Man 2 - will it be in English with German subtitles, or will they have dubbed it in German already???? Just curious!

[feuervogel]

It depends, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be in English. It used to be that Europe got films much later because they had to dub them, but now they start around the same time, in English. It doesn't say anywhere in the cinema's website, though. (I bought tickets for a show tomorrow night, so I hope it's in English. Though I'd understand it in German, too. Though if it isn't and I want to see it in English, I can get tickets at a different cinema another time. I'll be here all month, after all.)