After a relaxed weekend in Thuringia came back home last night to an over flowing kitchen drainage pipe. What a huge mess to clean up and freaking out over further overflows. Trying to talk to neighbors to not use the kitchen sink in the little German I know was a challenge. I used the google translated sentences but seems like they couldn’t understand much :/

Did the homework in a rush this morning and of course made a lot of mistakes! We converted the homework sentences in the present tense to perfect form on the fly and boy talk about a hodgepodge in the brain. For the first 30 min in the class felt like I forgot everything but our teacher was nice enough to slow down a bit and go over some of the very basic rules all over again. Hey repetition helps alright! That’s the only way stuff goes from short term memory to long term memory. I have keep remembering that for perfect forms haben is always with direct object and sein is with verbs of motion, verbs describing change of state and then there are a few special cases to remember. Practice, practice practice!!!

Sudeep