Today went by pretty fast. To be honest. I think the last
three days have gone by fast. I don’t know if it is just because it is the last
week and now we have a lot due and so are being kept much busier or if there
are actually less hours in the day, I’m thinking the latter.
We began the day with a game, but I didn’t mind this one.
Both the upper and lower groups played a sort of tag that actually took some
thought, especially when the instructions are all in German. I’m not sure I can
even explain it.
There is a chaser and the chased. If the Chaser tags the
Chased before the Chased can reach one of the randomly placed groups of people
(groups are made up of only two people each) then the Chased becomes the
Chaser. When the Chased is able to reach one of the randomly placed groups of
people then the person in the group farthest from the Chased becomes the Chaser
and the previous chaser is the Chased.
After we had about 40 minutes of this, we went back to class
and worked on some verb/preposition combos. I feel like it is a little late for
this sort of work now though. We should have been doing this in the first week.
And then doing it over and over again rather than wasting so much time on games
and some of the random stuff we did in class.
We then had a break. I went to Herr Weigel’s with Jennifer
and got coffee. He gave me free cake. It had pudding in the middle with streusel
on top. I am really going to miss that when I leave… When we came back from
break we had a discussion about national symbols. I’m not sure why. We were
comparing German and American ones. It ended up in an argument between most of
the guys as to which is the most American symbol… I think I’m not the only one
starting to get tired, cranky, and in need of a long nap.
After lunch we spent the remaining hour and a half working
on our projects. I feel like mine and Jennifer’s is finally pulled together. We
need to finish up the interview section but other than that… I am most worried about
having to get up and talk. I have a hard enough time doing class presentations
in English, having to think in another language and have stage fright are
probably not going to end up well.
New Words
Weggehen = to
move away
Konkurrenz (no
plural) = Competition
Peinlich (adj) = embarrassing
Stolz (m, kein pl)=
pride
Vorstellen = to
imagine
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