Hallo alle!
The last couple of weeks have been absolutely wonderful. I am now in my new house with my new host family in a small village near Göttingen and I cannot believe how lucky I am to be here. I will write about them and my new home in the next blog though.
So, last entry I ended with the trip to Berlin. That feels like ages ago. The AIB (Akademie für Internationle Bildung) students and I visited the mountain of Drachenfels. There are many legends
about this place and there was a castle that was used for teaching socialism pre-WWII, but it was completely bombed. Luckily it was rebuilt and we were able to take a tour inside. There are ruins of an older castle at the top which we climbed up to. We had to do a mini scavenger hunt while we were there. It was a lot of fun.
The next big excursion was a boat ride on the Rhine river. We started in this old medieval town called Bacharach then rode two hours down
to Marksburg, which is now a historical museum. There are so many old castles and so many legends about the Rhine. The tour was awesome. We got to see the old armor, the bed chambers, the torture chamber, the herb gardens, and so many other cool things. There was a wedding going on while we were there, so of course we took a picture with the couple and their sweet car.
Next was the visit to the United Nations Campus in Bonn. We listened to a long lecture about it, but I found it really interesting so it wasn´t that boring for me. I am now seriously considering working for the UN. It seems like they would have a perfect job for me with my interest in the environment and foreign languages.
SILENT FILM FEST in Bonn! A few others and I went to a free outdoor showing of some American silent films. There was a live pianist and so many interesting people there. The films were so simple, but they were so funny and it made me so happy to see and hear the emotions from the audience.
I am going to skip a lot of important things only because there is no room and no time to write about them! Friday was our last day in Bonn. We ate breakfast together as a class, then worked on our performance pieces for the farewell party that evening. A group of 5 other students and I sang the song 'In the Jungle' acapella and it got rave reviews from the audience that night, so I guess we did pretty well. I had to sing a verse by myself! I was so nervous, but once we started singing I was completely relaxed. Another group did a rap in German that they wrote themselves, and another group did a dance while someone played the bagpipes. The other students and I were like a big family at the end of the 2 months. It was a very sad but very nice evening. I will be seeing them all again in Berlin for an orientation in November.
My german continues to improve everyday. I can have daily conversations without a problem. Deep discussions are still difficult. I'll get there though. I'm not worried. I think my german is way better now than my spanish was at the two month point. Tomorrow I start in the real school. I am really excited and I will let you all know about in my next post. My new address is:
Elena Krajeski
Südekumweg 6c.
37120 Bovenden
Germany
Please write me! I love snail-mail.
ps. Sorry there are no pictures right now---I will add some later!
pps. There are so many english words used in German. The funniest one I have heard has to be ´dissen`which means ´to diss` or insult someone or something. For example: Ich habe dich gedisst = I just dissed you on that one.
The last couple of weeks have been absolutely wonderful. I am now in my new house with my new host family in a small village near Göttingen and I cannot believe how lucky I am to be here. I will write about them and my new home in the next blog though.
So, last entry I ended with the trip to Berlin. That feels like ages ago. The AIB (Akademie für Internationle Bildung) students and I visited the mountain of Drachenfels. There are many legends
about this place and there was a castle that was used for teaching socialism pre-WWII, but it was completely bombed. Luckily it was rebuilt and we were able to take a tour inside. There are ruins of an older castle at the top which we climbed up to. We had to do a mini scavenger hunt while we were there. It was a lot of fun.The next big excursion was a boat ride on the Rhine river. We started in this old medieval town called Bacharach then rode two hours down
to Marksburg, which is now a historical museum. There are so many old castles and so many legends about the Rhine. The tour was awesome. We got to see the old armor, the bed chambers, the torture chamber, the herb gardens, and so many other cool things. There was a wedding going on while we were there, so of course we took a picture with the couple and their sweet car.Next was the visit to the United Nations Campus in Bonn. We listened to a long lecture about it, but I found it really interesting so it wasn´t that boring for me. I am now seriously considering working for the UN. It seems like they would have a perfect job for me with my interest in the environment and foreign languages.
SILENT FILM FEST in Bonn! A few others and I went to a free outdoor showing of some American silent films. There was a live pianist and so many interesting people there. The films were so simple, but they were so funny and it made me so happy to see and hear the emotions from the audience.
I am going to skip a lot of important things only because there is no room and no time to write about them! Friday was our last day in Bonn. We ate breakfast together as a class, then worked on our performance pieces for the farewell party that evening. A group of 5 other students and I sang the song 'In the Jungle' acapella and it got rave reviews from the audience that night, so I guess we did pretty well. I had to sing a verse by myself! I was so nervous, but once we started singing I was completely relaxed. Another group did a rap in German that they wrote themselves, and another group did a dance while someone played the bagpipes. The other students and I were like a big family at the end of the 2 months. It was a very sad but very nice evening. I will be seeing them all again in Berlin for an orientation in November.
My german continues to improve everyday. I can have daily conversations without a problem. Deep discussions are still difficult. I'll get there though. I'm not worried. I think my german is way better now than my spanish was at the two month point. Tomorrow I start in the real school. I am really excited and I will let you all know about in my next post. My new address is:
Elena Krajeski
Südekumweg 6c.
37120 Bovenden
Germany
Please write me! I love snail-mail.
ps. Sorry there are no pictures right now---I will add some later!
pps. There are so many english words used in German. The funniest one I have heard has to be ´dissen`which means ´to diss` or insult someone or something. For example: Ich habe dich gedisst = I just dissed you on that one.
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