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...Really?  Sweet jeebus, I am sorry lauraw but if they pass this I am not visiting anytime soon.  

So I have no plans on continuing my B.A.Ed. program upon returning to Canada (Masters of Library and Information Studies instead), but I've learned quite a bit of useful things from the European school systems in my short time over here, and goddam, but is there a lot that we could implement to improve the system in Canada. For one thing; Masters ( Read more... )

My poor students keep having problems with the 'false friends,' the words which sound the same as a German word but have a different meaning in English. I can sympathize since I had the same problem when learning German. I've always found it interesting (and sometimes hilarious) how similar sounding words wind up with such different meanings ( Read more... )

I had just been thinking how lovely it was to be enjoying a temperate German winter with no snow on the ground since early January and temperatures consistantly above 0C for two weeks. And then the weather decides to spite me. Snooooooooow  :(  And here I was hoping I wouldn't have to see any until back in Canada next winter. Ah well. Maybe I'll ( Read more... )

It's like freakin halloween tonight; tomorrow the garbage collectors are doing one of their rare 'random shit' collections, when people are allowed to toss mattresses, etc out onto the curb to be picked up over night.  Some of the buildings have rather impresive piles out front.  Before the trucks come out early in the morning people are taking ( Read more... )

Party night with the Romanian nanny tonight. Drank sangria and invented cocktails, played pool and hung out at the Irish pub. I finally managed to figure out how to flirt in Germany and got the number of a German soldier who is a trained cook and bears a resemblance to Martin Freeman. Not too shabby if I may say so myself.

Neue Stundenplan. Ich arbeite Dienstag bis Freitag. Dienstag arbeite ich von der ersten bis achten stunde (7:40am-3:15pm). Die andere Tage arbeite ich zwei bis vier Stunden. 15 Stunden pro Woche für 800-Euro pro Monate.  Diese Monate will ich eine kurze Reise nach Göttingen oder der Nordsee machen, und im Hamam gehen. Außer das bleibe ich in ( Read more... )

OMG STOCKHOLM!

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Ignored the gym today in favour of planning my itinerary for Stockholm. Leaving Friday, returning Monday and trying to cram in as many museums and as much sightseeing as possible within that time. Very excited!

Uni is nearly over, but I plan on taking a C1 preparatory course in order to write the Goethe DAF exam in June. Yay! It is pretty intense; ( Read more... )

Ich bin satt.  Tonight was the international dinner at the Uni. I took pancakes and maple syrup as my contribution to the Amazing International Buffet and they went over quite well. It was a really big event too; at least 300 people, 70 of which were international students, the others mostly comprised of professors, fellow students and roommates.  ( Read more... )