June 28 2012

Today was incredibly nerve wrecking. We began the day with some games in the hof, then we discussed in class cultural differences, stereotypes, and prejudices. Then we watched “Türkisch für Anfänger” which is a Gemran television show about a German mom and her two children, and she moves I with a Turkish German who has two children. There are a lot of cultural issues and differences that happen and the show seems to be about how they try to deal with these and assimilate together in Germany.

For our first break Jennifer and I went to Herr Weigel and I got free cake. I like free cake…

After break we each had to get up and do some practice for our presentations. This is what made me nervous; I was feeling rather good about it until we practiced. Simonne got up to do hers and Frau Shimmelpfennig corrected everything she did. She kept telling her that she wasn’t doing it the German way. Problem is until today we had never discussed how to do a presentation the German way.

For lunch Jennifer and I went to Herr Weigel’s again and again there was free cake, but even better I got a picture with him and that made me very happy. He has been so nice to me.

After Lunch we all gathered in our room and we got through a lot of the presentations. In the end Jennifer and I didn’t do ours. So I was terribly nervous all day for nothing… Oddly, now that today is over and tomorrow is inevitable I feel better about our presentation being tomorrow.

Tonight we also had the Abschiedabend. I think it was a nice way to wrap up the program, everyone together, food, music... :

                                                               Everyone Singing...

Peitschen = to whip

Beschämend = to be ashamed

Das Sieg = victory

Tagesschau = today show/daily show/news show

Bedeutend (adj) = important