Deutsch schule

Greetings from the Mediothek in my German school, the Goethe Institut!  Today was a typical first day of school.  I filled out some random paper work and took a placement test, which I knew a whopping maybe like 2% of, and had my first interview in German.  Tomorrow I come for actual classes where they'll put me with a group at about the same level of Deutsch as I am.

I was kind of  expecting the teachers to talk to me in English or at least get the hint that my German isn't so good, but no.  They persevered and kept on communicating to me in German, which ended up not being that hard to understand.  I kept thinking to myself, "People!  I came here to LEARN German!  I'm not an expert yet!"  But I guess at German school, you start learning literally the second you walk in the door.

I love the area my classes are in though.  It's called Hackesher Markt, and it has tons of shopping and restaurants and stuff and Talya's work isn't but like a 5 minute walk away.  There's also a park where we go to pretty often.  I have a feeling I'll be taking advantage of this library that I'm in right now and the park and the cafes and stuff in the area for when I need to study or just chill and kill time before I have to get the kids in the afternoon.

In the interview today, the lady asked me what I'm gonna do after these classes.  I know the words for "I don't know" in Spanish is "no se" but I'm not exactly in Spanish class so that won't be very helpful.  But I got to thinking.  Oh my gosh.  What AM I gonna do after the classes are over?  I wanna find something to do other than read all day and eat döner kebabs.  Well, I have 2 months of German classes ahead of me, and in the meantime, I'll just have to trust God to provide productive, healthy things to do with my time once October 27 passes.

Well, I think I'm off to go get a coffee and a little something to eat at one of the cafes in the area and read more of "The Magician's Nephew."  And speaking of books, I just finished "The Help" and absolutely loved it but after comparing it to the movie, I hated the movie.  The movie's good but it doesn't have nearly the same emotional themes as the book does.  There are some pretty gut wrenching scenes in the book, but hardly any of them, let alone the emotions being conveyed through them, made it to the screen.  That's the best thing about Netflix not being available in Germany yet.  I'm forced to actually pick up a book and read, something that I've discovered I LOVE doing.  Every now and then, I scan Talya's book shelf in the living room and see what I want to read next.  I get really excited when I see a book that looks interesting.  It turns out I'm more like Lydia and Josiah than I thought ;)

Alright, now I'm really gonna go.  Auf wiedersehen! :)