Hi again!

First day at my language school in Berlin. I bet all of you have sweet memories of that… for me, this time it was a bit nostalgic – when I finished the University, I thought I’d never sit and listen for hours like that again – and I still didn’t, ‚cause this is something completely different. We have a great group with 9 other people from different countries and cultures (Bolivia, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Denmark, Canada, France, Sweden) with the age from 18 to 51 years, and each of them is interesting in a way – that’s how our first task, to get to know eachother with asking basic german starting questions lasted a bit longer than our teacher expected.. It was also a surprise for me that I could still talk in german (it was a few years back that I last used the language, as a surf instructor), and it was really exciting. We spoke a lot, which was great, and I’m not as bad at it as I expected. Anne, our teacher is very helpful, and understands if we have issues with grammar, although she always corrects the spoken mistakes as well, which is a great way of improving.

Before the first day at the Academy we spent the weekend looking around in Berlin, and found a great lake (although it didn’t happen by chance, since I saw it from the plane when we were landing), which is called Müggelsee. Before that I couldn’t imagine a city to have an entire lake with sailboats, sandy beach, pine forests on the shore – it’s just amazing! I took some pictures (including this one in the entry, which was taken while I stood in the ice cold water), if you are interested, visit my Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/liebergabor/BerlinMuggelsee#

That’s for today, see you next time!
Gabor