Well, the semester starts this Monday, the 19th of April. I've pretty much selected my classes. AI, Differential Geometry, Topology, Anth, and German culture.
Today I took my bike out in an effort to actually *find* the university. The university is kinda splatted out across town. I found most of my classrooms. Well kinda. Actually, I found 1. I found 4 of the buildings. Tomorrow I'll go out again.
Well, I was talking with a German today, and the German actually thought that I was a German. My accent didn't give me away. I probably just sounded a little stoned (maybe that's why he was asking me if I had anything that he could "kiffen" (ha ha, just kidding!!)).
I've taken up the practice of sitting down in front of the TV with my laptop, and every time I don't understand a word, I write it down. Then I translate the list of words, and use my amazing vocab-building software (which I wrote) to learn the words. This method seems to be effective, as my ability to understand standard conversation is rapidly approaching the 100% level. That makes me very happy.
Well, I'll post more once I have something more to post (which will be soon).
Archived comments:
crewchild2000:
what are you doing? sitting in front of the boob-toob (i know it's spelled tube but that isn't funny) all day? you should be out FIDNING MORE classrooms of your's. lazy bum.
Mom:
Cool! I look forward to hearing what your classes are like.
Congratulations on being taken for a German! I think that's cool too.
We were at the NC Zoo yesterday, and while we were watching the monkeys a German-speaking woman and three young children were standing next to us. I could only pick up a little of what the woman was saying, but I could understand almost all of what the chattiest child - about Sarah's age - was saying. So now whereas you can understand almost all of a normal adult German conversation, I can understand almost all of a five-year-old counting the monkeys and describing what they are doing.....:)
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