Well, it's the fifteenth day...cool. More about my trip, well, anything I do here in Germany is inevitably part of my trip, so anything I write, even about reading, will be about my trip. I got €50 out of ein Geldautomat(ATM) today, because I had just about run out of cash. Please put more in my account Mom. I did a lot today, I hung out with Nina and her boyfriend, he wants to learn English and I want to learn German so he speaks German to me and I speak to him in English.
I have made many arrangements for doing social things. On saturday I'm going to a birthday partry, on sunday I'm going to theaters with Teddy, Christian, Corbi, and Lorenz. (this is a maybe, will probably happen but may not). Then on wednesday, in a week, I'm going to a shooting range with Christina's boyfriend. I think that'll be fun, he's a nice guy.
I did a bunch of German work today, looking things up in my dictionary, and working on the coursebook I was given. I also watched THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS in german. Not nearly as good, oh yeah, I also watched cartoons in German. Well, until I have more time differences will be in a simple list.
TODAY'S: The Germans have many cobblestone streets in their towns.
Well, POST, YOU FOOLISH MORTALS!!!(please?)
Brendan
2 comments:
Cool, Brendan. Did you get your packages yet? Also, I think you ought not speak English at all. And what about your host family? What have you been doing with them? Make the effort to interact with them. I put $50 more in your account this past weekend, so you shouldn't be running short. I'm not renewing your phone card for some time (more about that in private email), so parcel out your phone conversations. I'm at school after the Poetry Out Loud competition, and am distressed to report that no one from our school won, or placed. Tanya, Sara and Augie did extraordinarily well, and I fear the judges were substandard. The first place winner was the only one whom I thought provided any substantial competition for our students. The thrid place winner was so horrible I could hardly contain myself. He SANG a Lewis Carroll poem, and then did another, "Jabberwocky" in a COCKNEY accent. I was utterly appalled. Imagine, Lewis Carroll, an Oxford Don, having something he wrote done in the lowest class accent possible. He would have DIED (if he weren't already dead). Climatology is going well; it's fun to teach a science block, and an entirely different experience than teaching humanities blocks. What's the weather been like by you? Also, since you've written so much about what you're reading, I'll do the same. I've started reading another series by Orson Scott Card, the one that starts with the Memory of Earth. It's extremely good, and I fear I get a bit obsessive about it (reading until 11:30, then starting to prep for main lesson, for instance). Also reading Pride & Prejudice, which is so much fun. The 9th grade is enjoying it too, I'm happy to say. And we're reading Hunger in 11th grade, which is the opposite of fun, but definitely thought-provoking. Anyway, keep good humored, and be a good guest. I'm writing to Herr Schlerf tomorrow.
Love,
Mom
From Mairead:
Hi Brendan. I'm wondering, if you're hanging out with Nina's boyfriend, and not Nina as much,. why don't you just use his name? Is it that you've forgotten it? Or don't you know how ot spell it? or don't you know how to say it? And who is Nina anyway? Please actually read this, even though it's late.
The end.
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