Today was the official first day of the International Student Introduction Courses (Start Kurs I). I enjoyed the class very much. I can't believe that I have already been here a full week. My German has improved drastically in just 7 days, I can hardly believe it.
We only had a short class in the afternoon today, but I learned so much. It was really just a review of the first two semesters of German, but I was amazed at how much information I had forgotten over the summer. Fances Kate and I are in the first Start Kurs class. When we walked in the room all the seats were labeled by country (so no one could sit with someone they knew well) and there were 4 different countries at each table. I sat with Katerina from Russia, Francesco from Italy and Juan from Columbia. Then we did a mingle/name game thing where we each had 4 squares of paper of the same color and we had to move around the room and get to know people from the other countries. Each time we spoke to someone we would trade paper squares until we had 4 different colored squares. It was fun and I really enjoyed practicing my German.
After the class, Julia and I went grocery shopping and cooked a great dinner. Polish sausage with sautaed red peppers, onions, butter and soy sauce all mixed with white rice. It was great! Now I'm just relaxing and catching up and studying. I have to say that my first week was off to a rocky start, but all in all it was a success. I want to say thanks to everyone for their prayers and encouragement. It means the world to me.
Kendra
P.S. I found website where I can watch American TV (TVshack.com) soooo earlier "crisis" averted :).
We only had a short class in the afternoon today, but I learned so much. It was really just a review of the first two semesters of German, but I was amazed at how much information I had forgotten over the summer. Fances Kate and I are in the first Start Kurs class. When we walked in the room all the seats were labeled by country (so no one could sit with someone they knew well) and there were 4 different countries at each table. I sat with Katerina from Russia, Francesco from Italy and Juan from Columbia. Then we did a mingle/name game thing where we each had 4 squares of paper of the same color and we had to move around the room and get to know people from the other countries. Each time we spoke to someone we would trade paper squares until we had 4 different colored squares. It was fun and I really enjoyed practicing my German.
After the class, Julia and I went grocery shopping and cooked a great dinner. Polish sausage with sautaed red peppers, onions, butter and soy sauce all mixed with white rice. It was great! Now I'm just relaxing and catching up and studying. I have to say that my first week was off to a rocky start, but all in all it was a success. I want to say thanks to everyone for their prayers and encouragement. It means the world to me.
Kendra
P.S. I found website where I can watch American TV (TVshack.com) soooo earlier "crisis" averted :).
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