Heute habe ich erst Klasse auf Deutsch III. Bin ich nervos? Naturlich! I am so rusty!
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Spiel Zwei! Krieg!
Like ein Dumkopf I signed up for Deutsch II at the last minute. First class was last week. I don’t know why I’m doing this. The game of it, maybe? Self abuse? Some stupid dream of traveling to Deutschophone countries and sweet-talking everyone I meet? I don’t get it. I took the first course last …
Endlich
Took my Deutsch I final this morning. I don’t believe I did well. Probably 50%. It was oral with another student over Zoom. We each were given separate facts about a fictitious person that we had to ask questions about, and we had to answer in full sentences im Deutsch. My vocabulary is bad, because …
Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Jig Saw
I think those two years in the Gifted and Talented program in junior high ruined me. I mean, sure, it taught me the value of lateral thinking and finding novel ways to approach problems and solve them. But they never told me that lateral thinking wasn’t always necessary…or welcomed. I found myself quite often doing …