Goethe Institut! Travel!
21 Aug 2009 05:10 pmAssuming we're not all dead of teh swine floo, I'm planning to do the Goethe Institut in Berlin, 4/6-5/1/10. I'm already thinking about the cool things I can do, like go to the opera (Tristan and Isolde!) or see a concert (Mozart!), and go to the Stasi museum since it was closed last time, and go to the former Nordbahnhof site and see if I can figure out which station still had the bunker for the border guards last time, and hopefully see ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sabeth, and take a trip to Dresden, and find Hohenzollern stuff. (Oh yeah, and spend about 5 hours a day (re)learning German.)
I had an idea today that I could see about a flat share for a month, though I'm not sure anyone would be up for someone being there from like 4/2-5/2. I found a Wohngemeinschaft listing site via google, and they run about 300 Euro, plus deposits (300-400), so maybe I should just stick with the Institut's homestay wossname, since that's 500 Euro.
The Institut is in the central section of town, between Hackescher Markt and Alexanderplatz, and IIRC there were a ton of restaurants on Oranienburgerstr.
I think starting early next year, I'll dig out and dust off my Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik (bright fucking yellow!) and 501 German Verbs, and pick up those books from Klaus' German literature courses again, and spend at least an hour a day reading shit in German - spiegel.de, bundesliga.de, de.wikipedia, books, whatever. Und danach sollte ich mehr auf Deutsch schreiben. To grease the wheels.
And since I'll already be in Europe, andkirin and I had been planning to take a 10th anniversary trip to Europe, we thought he could meet me there. I laid out a couple options, and he picked the one I'd slightly preferred: the Habsburg tour of the Danube! That is to say, Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest. So he'll fly to Vienna, I'll get there somehow (train? plane? whatever's cheaper), and we'll go do shit. Twill be awesome.
Now I just need to get a whole bunch of shifts to pay for this crap... (Also, let's hoping this doesn't make me want to move to Berlin *even more.*)
sabeth, and take a trip to Dresden, and find Hohenzollern stuff. (Oh yeah, and spend about 5 hours a day (re)learning German.)I had an idea today that I could see about a flat share for a month, though I'm not sure anyone would be up for someone being there from like 4/2-5/2. I found a Wohngemeinschaft listing site via google, and they run about 300 Euro, plus deposits (300-400), so maybe I should just stick with the Institut's homestay wossname, since that's 500 Euro.
The Institut is in the central section of town, between Hackescher Markt and Alexanderplatz, and IIRC there were a ton of restaurants on Oranienburgerstr.
I think starting early next year, I'll dig out and dust off my Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik (bright fucking yellow!) and 501 German Verbs, and pick up those books from Klaus' German literature courses again, and spend at least an hour a day reading shit in German - spiegel.de, bundesliga.de, de.wikipedia, books, whatever. Und danach sollte ich mehr auf Deutsch schreiben. To grease the wheels.
And since I'll already be in Europe, and
kirin and I had been planning to take a 10th anniversary trip to Europe, we thought he could meet me there. I laid out a couple options, and he picked the one I'd slightly preferred: the Habsburg tour of the Danube! That is to say, Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest. So he'll fly to Vienna, I'll get there somehow (train? plane? whatever's cheaper), and we'll go do shit. Twill be awesome.Now I just need to get a whole bunch of shifts to pay for this crap... (Also, let's hoping this doesn't make me want to move to Berlin *even more.*)
