So hello there!!! I’m back due to popular demand (really just my teacher saying my writing was good) and thought I’d share some thoughts every now and then of how the next course (A1-2) is going.

So, the first thing I have noticed now is how much I think in German alongside English. It’s actually been hard to write this blog and now before I go to sleep, I’m often muttering bits of grammar which I must say must pain my husband with all the mistakes I make but today impressed the In-Laws!!!Woohoo!!! I was even able to have a good conversation with them for 11 minutes without help!!! (Check out my German accuracy???)

Over the weekend, my husband and I attended a wedding at my church and was delighted with (what is fast becoming) the “Typically European” wedding games. One of the games was where the couple had to throw darts at balloons to win the money in them. Testing Teamwork I think?!?! There, I had the opportunity to practice all the German I knew and although I got decidedly tired earlier than normal, everyone was very impressed with how much German I knew in such a short time (THANKYOU DeutschAkademie!!!). Apparently, they all understood me  too and even said I didn’t have an accent – I took this as a compliment though not sure where I was supposed to get one from.

I started asking what people did for jobs/professions too and found that this was just in line with what we started with this week. Today, I ran around Munich to see if I could spot people in action; see if you can guess what people are doing or who would work here.

Now, we have 6 more students in our class from Poland, Greece, Mexico and Romania. They are all lovely and we have a few more guys now too. Today, we found out that they haven’t taken the A1-1 course at the DeutschAkademie and so the last few days our teacher has been going over the Dativ/Akkusativ Grammar again. I am very pleased about this as I’ve actually really struggled to get back into the learning process. I think knowing that I had finished one course must have flipped a switch in my brain or something and it’s taken a good couple of days to get back into it. As the oldest in the class now, I take that as my excuse as the others, despite not knowing a few things are actually doing really well. I hope tomorrow’s test proves otherwise and that Age, really is nothing but a number.