So today its the last day I’m going to be talking to you.
I just wanted to say thank you for letting me share all my experiences and interesting facts I found here in Munich! To be here in Munich is an amazing experience and I hope my blogs helped you to find out new things about Munich, also I really hope that you can come to DeutschAkademie because it’s a great school with wonderful teachers, really nice staff and tons of people from around the world, all of them impatient to know you. German it’s a really complicated language but the reward you are going to get from knowing it, it’s beyond your expectations. It has all sorts of uses such for your daily life, to get to know more people, educational uses, for your career and more to learn a new language. It’s an incredible experience that will bring you a lot of satisfaction and good experiences.
Goodbye and thank you,

Valeria

Today I want to tell you a little bit more about myself. As you know I come from Mexico and I am 19 years old, but you don´t know that I am the oldest one of three daughters. I was raised and born in Mexico and so my whole family, my mom is the youngest one of two daughters and my dad is the youngest of two sons, they got married when my mom was 26 and my dad 28. After 2 years they had me and some years after they had my little sisters that are 18 and 12 years old. So for me it has been really hard to be away of my sisters and my parents since this is the first time I’m away from home, but every day gets easier and I maintain myself busy with the school and my friends.

To be in a foreign country where everything and everyone is new for you can be hard but it’s positive, you just have to be conscious about your goals and have them really present in your daily life, for when you miss your family or friends. You remember you are doing it because of them and your personal realization.

Valeria

Today I would like to talk about a museum I visited the other day, it is the Münchener Stadt Museum.

one day I was walking around the center of Munich and me and my friend didn’t have anything more interesting to do so when we saw this building from the distance we decided we wanted to know what it was. When we went in they told us it was the State Museum of Munich so we decided that we wanted to go in, because we thought it was really interesting to know a little bit more about about Munich. Because we are living here it’s important to know what happens in the city and why it is and was important historically. The museum has a lot of expositions some of them are temporal meaning that they are exhibit just for a short period of time. The one exhibition that I found most interesting was one called “Ehem Jüdischer Besitz” that talks about all the properties such as jewelry, high end clothes, paintings, furniture or sculptures that belonged to Jude’s and taken away by the nazis. The museum dedicates this exposition to the recovery of this objects throughout the years that preceded the Second World War, the exposition it’s really well executed it explains everything. I recommend a lot to visit this museum but especially this exposition

Valeria

today i’m going to talk about the English gardens it’s the one of biggest parks in the city, it crosses a lot of main points into the city as well as the Isar river here you can find a lot of attractions there are a lot of places were you can eat and have a drink in the different Biergartens, also when is winter you can play is no game we have your own snowman made and four when it is summer you can swim in the river or practice surf, right now it’s one of my favorite places around the city because you can go with friends and have some drinks or just go by yourself and enjoy reading a book, for me it’s a great experience because you can have a genuine taste of German culture there are a lot of things to do, people are always playing sports such as baseball, volleyball or football, and you can always ask to join, there are also a lot of families and friends just throwing a picnic, a really good idea is to make one with your friends when it’s sunny, you can also take a walk an eat in the Chinese tower where you can find beer or traditional dishes from Germany, so take a walk in the English gardens as fast as you can,

Valeria

Today I will like to talk with you about the five tips that in my experience you have to have in mind whenever you are learning a language but specifically German so let’s start:

One of you have to be really constant understudy meaning dad you should be able to study at home for a one or two hours every day if you really want to acquire more vocabulary correct your grammar that should be enough .

You should never skip classes because some of the topics that you were going to see in class are really important and a basis for the topics that you will see in the future.

Always do the homework every time your teacher leaves you something to do at home is for you to improve your German so always do your homework !!

Try to hang out with German people or at least to speak with them because the only way to really improve your pronunciation is to speak German with people that can correct you and tell you if you are saying something wrong.

Read books or articles into a magazine or in the newspape also listen to music and watch tv or Netflix in German, to read and listen at German things will give you fluency when you read and speak, will expand your vocabulary as well as improve your grammar.

Valeria

Today I want to tell you about what I did in class today was the end of my month course and what we did was a simulation of the b2.2 Prüfung which for who don’t know that’s the exam you have to do to pass from level in German and I am having mine at the end of this month so this simulation helped me to realize that I have to work harder and study a lot more because even if I think that I performed well I think there are a lot of topics I need to practice more because to learn German it’s an every day work you have to be constantly aware of your surroundings  and the really motivated,

Valeria

Today I would like to tell how has been my experience with Munich and the activities to spend on your free time. Munich is a great city it has a lot of attractions both inside and outside the city, you can have incredible experiences for a really low cost, as student you have a lot of discounts and promotions you can use in the museums, Munich is worldwide known because of its history, art and beauty, it has a lot of museums and galleries for you to visit every weekend, parks and pools for you to enjoy in hot days and a lot of places and parties where you can meet a lot of people from your own country and other parts in the world,

For example every first week in Deutsche Akademie there’s a reunion of all the students that are in courses with the school, there or you can meet a lot of new people and share your experiences here in Munich.

There are also a lot of thematic parties where you can enjoy food from your country, traditional dances or simply just being with people that understand your culture, I have been in several Latin parties and I have loved the experience because even if I am living an incredible experience here in Germany sometimes I miss Mexico and my family so being around people that understands that give me the chance to don’t  miss that much.

Valeria

Today I would like to tell you about the last new experience I lived with my family, my host parents both of them have German nationality but she is also Mexican, both of the have form part of the ‘Cowboys Club München’ which is a really interesting hobby first the club is located near the Isar pretty close to the zoo, it’s a really beautiful place, it is surrounded by a lot of trees and nature, inside everything is thematic and everyone dressed as if they were in the old west so it’s really interesting to see the hobby of other people the have an open doors event every  which helps them to earn funds for the club, they play games with the visitors,  prepare food and let people enjoy from the atmosphere, they also have a museum in which they have typical things from both Indians and cowboys, and did I mention they have horses ?, they have three horses and they are so beautiful and nice

Sincerely Valeria

Today in class we saw one movie called ‘Goodbye Lenin !’ I really really liked it because it talks about the fall of the Berlin Wall. This was a really important event in German history because it marks the beginning of Germany as we know it today. All of it started after the World War Two when Germany was defeated and the allies divided the territory between them. The USA, France and Great Britain unified their part of the country, that’s how the BRD was founded. While this was happening the Soviet Union was forming the DDR as a part of the country. Germany played a really important role in the conflict between capitalists and socialist blocks.

The movie is about a boy and it’s family, in which after the mother (a really good citizen dedicated to the socialist party) falls ill and in coma for 8 months. Meanwhile there are really important changes, not only in the politics and society, but also in the family. Her son has met the love of his life called Lara, so as his sister. There are new and more globalized brands etc. After eight months his mothers wakes up and in order to don’t cause her another heart attack he acts like if nothing has happened (if the DDR would still exist). He’s getting into an odyssey to find the same food and products they had in the DDR, he would try to protect his mother against the outside world but in the end he would notice that only truth can free him.

I highly recommend this movie to understand one really important part of German history but also it’s a really good movie with a captivating plot, plus you can watch it in German and practice listening skills.

Valeria

In this blog I would like to share with you what I did on my weekend. Right now I’m living with a host family, my host parents and their dog Simon. I’ve been living with them for the past three months they’re really good people, my host mom it’s Mexican like me that way I’ve been missing less my country and my family. My host father is German born here in Munich, thanks to that he have been able to show me a lot of traditions and have explained me something’s that only German people would know, such as magical locations. Last weekend they invited me to the lake of starnberg. It was amazing, the weather was really warm I enjoyed it a lot we took a bier in the local biergarten and talked until we went back home.

Starnberg is a really famous lake right in the south of Munich, in winter it’s really cold but now in summer it’s an incredible place to come with friends and enjoy activities such as swimming, kayaking or just relaxing.

Everyone that’s living in Munich should visit it at least once.

Until next time,

Valeria