The first week at Deutsch Akademie is finished. Not just anyhow, but with pantomime! This was one of the Friday exercises that made us all laugh.

I had to be a doctor and a hairdresser. For a second, the colleague next to me was really confused noticing I started touching his hair. Tomoko, my Japanese colleague was a dentist, Alexandra from Macedonia was a supermarket and Piotr from Poland was…the television tower from Alexanderplatz!

We’ve played more games and played tricks to each other, while leaning new words and repeating grammar in the same time.  During those games, I suddenly realized something funny – we are so different, but, somehow, so similar.

No matter where we come from (Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia, Romania, Korea, Japan) no matter some are engineers and some bartenders, some like modern dance, some football or chocolate croissants, life brought us all in Berlin and, at this point, for all of us learning German is a priority. We were all listening to the same Marlene Dietrich song, took the same notes from the blackboard and prepared the same homework. I left my thoughts behind and joined the game again, because my colleague was acting out something new.

This colorful mix of people around makes learning German so entertaining! Because yes, entertaining it’s exactly how the whole first week was. Looking forward for the second!