Last Monday we started school. We started off with a week-long crash course in German. Since I already speak a little, I was put into a class of four other Americans (who also had some experience) and we went a little beyond counting and naming fruit.
It was amazing how much German I learned in one week, and it also made me realize how much German I had forgotten. I finished my German Minor two years ago, and haven't been in a German class since. We spent the week describing pictures, playing games, and watching a German film. I wish all my German classes had been like that. Our teacher, Herr Spangenberger, showed a lot of patience with us as we stumbled through our sentences all week. On Friday, after we took our end of the week German test, we hopped abroad a train to Stuttgart.
There were about fifteen of us in the group and we spent Friday night on the town. Checking out the local 'scene' if you will. Saturday we did some sight seeing. It was unbelievably gorgeous, about 70 degrees and sunny.
Looking down on Stuttgart
Today we started our Business courses. I start with Macro-Economics. How our classes are scheduled is that we take one at a time, and it runs all day for about a week and half, culminating in a substantially large test on the last day. Although this is going to be a little intense, the bright side is that almost all my tests are on Friday mornings, which leaves me with a school-free weekends.
Tonight we went and played basketball with some of the students from our school. Three guys from the US Army base in Mosbach also played. All three were about half my height, but still showed me a thing or two about how to shoot hoops. And it might come as a shock to you, but all three were also baffled that I had not played organized basketball since the fourth grade.
Hi.
ReplyDeleteI'm Geoff.
I play mini golf.