I thought that there were only rumors about famous rabbits which lived by the wall and now are all around the city but near my home I can see them almost every day enjoying the sun and eating juicy grass. Some time ago at night I crossed the street and when I got to the sidewalk I saw there – for a first time in my life – real hedgehog! On Friday I had chance to see real city foxes. Some of my friends told me about falcons living in Berlin too but so far I haven’t seen them. I can’t wait to discover more wild animals in the city. Berlin surprises me everyday.

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?

Tomorrow we will start second week of classes. At the end of this week, all the students were invited to party nearby the Wittenbergplatz devision. None of my classmates managed to come but we had a good time sharing our experiences, thoughts and ideas concerning learning German and new life in Berlin.

These three days when I don’t have classes I try even harder to learn German on my own
by repeating new words or grammar structures. But the most difficult part is – the right pronunciation. So I try to keep my ears wide open on hearing people talking on the street or in a supermarket.
Of course at my level (A1.2) I barely understand some words but I can feel it that a little progress
has been made after my first week at Akademie.

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.