Today I started my next level but to be honest after days of sun and heat I got cold and only today I went out of bed to participate in my first class. I have new really nice teacher whose name is the same as mine – Katja and class full of Italians and Egyptians. Everybody seems to be really focus on hard studying from the first minute. Today after we presented ourself and our colleagues we started with grammar. And again I felt a bit lost but everyday I can feel it that I can say more and more even if it’s in broken German so it’s such a wonderful feeling to be able to step by step feelin new language. I wish that all of you great new classes and a lot of persistence.

Today I had with my friends amazing breakfast in Prenzlauer Berg where you can find many nice small cafes and restaurants which serve typical breakfast plates. I chose cheese plate which include variety of delicious cheeses, some nicely cut fruits, salad and different kind of fresh bread. Every table in the cafe was occupied. We tried to sit outside but finally we moved inside. The old buildings keep cool inside and today it was really needed. I strongly recommend all of you weekend walk in Prenzlauer Berg and having Berlin style breakfast!

Here you are picture of the sky before the storm.

I was in the middle of preparing my homework when I realised that today… it’s last day of classes! But for many of us, including myself, we are back to next level already from Monday! So no summer break, no vacation till we learn enough ☺ I have so many new words to learn, verbs to be used in the correct way and many many things to be discovered like German words which have the same mining in my language – Polish, like: ‘’Dach’’ (siling), ‘’Pech” (bad luck) ora many many more. I wish you learned as much as me and everyday you will improve your German communications skills.
Viel Glück für alles! Und viel danke Nadine :)

Finally today in our afternoon class some Sun rays made us smiling but in fact we faced too much grammar as you can see on faces of my classmates. We already know how to say that something is happening, something has happened or was happening. We can order things but still we are confused about numbers which they mix up when our teacher tell us which page to turn! I can deeply feel that I learn so many new words and grammar structures that I get a bit lost. One day German seems easy but another I discover new rules and new complicated exceptions!

In my group we are nine students. Everybody comes from different country and has different background. There is girls from England, Italy, France, Thailand and a bit older woman from Mexico. There are three colleagues from Ireland, Hungary and older man from China. Some of the students came to learn language and some of them already work and live here and still do not know enough German to feel comfortable in Berlin. But all of us, as much as we learn as much complicated and challenging we find German. Now finishing the third week of classes we feel like real friends during three hours which pass too fast…

So this rainy Friday I decided to study on my own. Well, after two weeks of curse I have so much to learn again and check if I understood and learnt enough. Finally I know how to say that I have
a headache (yes this famous ‘’Kopfschmerzen”) or what I would do if I win 100 thousand Euro (‘’Wenn ich gewinne hundert tausend Euro gehe ich auf eine Reise um die Welt’’). Thanks to my great classmates I learnt not only German but many useful natural headache or flue (‘’Gripe’’) treatments used in house holds in Mexico, Thailand, China or France. And of course everyone had
a great dream about winning money like buying small islands, houses or horses!

Today it was the last day of this week’s classes and the half of the course already passed. I have this feeling that is was much faster than I supposed. Finally my group is getting better and better. We interchange some very interesting information about places where we come from. We speak in our broken German about our experiences in Berlin. Tomorrow I will miss my everyday class so I guess I will have to study on my own. Finally I started speaking this week! I started believing that even I can do it. Of course who want to talk to me needs a lot of time – I am a very slowly speaking person when I talk in German. Ich wünsche Ihnen ein schönes Wochenende!

Besides participating in German course and discovering new words or grammar rules, I keep discovering Berlin… especially Berlin for free. In this city, especially now there a lot of cultural events happening in open air. My latest addiction are free concerts in Philharmonic Orchestra hall. You can participate in it tomorrow or next Tuesday. The concert starts at 1 pm and are very popular among Berliners and tourists. This concerts are called Lunchtime Concerts and present talented young students of Music Academy from Berlin. Please, find more information at berliner-philharmoniker.de. Who is going tomorrow with me?

Hallo, my name’s Kasia and I’m 100% Polish although I tried to live abroad few times. I just arrived for good to Berlin to start my new life here. Because my hometown – Warsaw is only around 550 km away from Berlin, I used to come here a lot, really a lot. Berlin is the best spot to go for Poles to relax, have fun and forget about everyday life.

Coming back to me, before I decided to move here I already had some friends. But unfortunately none of them are Germans so my knowledge of language is very poor. I’m very optimistic looking forward to start my new life here in Berlin living nearby the school at Wittenbergplatz. Please, have a look at an amazing view from my new room.