Our German classes are four days a week, Monday to Thursday. Today being Thursday means its the end of the school week for us...woo hoo!
A few times a week there are markets just outside our school at Wittenberg Platz. These are a nice way to start the day, strolling through the mostly food items on the way to class.
At the Brauhaus Südstern we went in and there were lots of people from the DeutschAkademie. But none from our class! Liars!.
There were two students from Tom and Danika's class so we spent the night talking with them at our own table (the other tables were too jammed for us to fit in). They were pretty cool. We tried several pitchers of the Brauhaus's beers which were pretty good.
We were joined at our table for a bit by 'Pascal' the founder/owner of the DeutschAkademie - seemed like a nice guy.
The night seem to disappear very quickly and we were then informed (perhaps falsely) by our new mate Paolo that the trains would stop running in 20 minutes. We were almost finished our beers anyway and didn't want to risk getting stranded so high tailed it out of there.
Three U-Bahn lines again.
A few times a week there are markets just outside our school at Wittenberg Platz. These are a nice way to start the day, strolling through the mostly food items on the way to class.
The week of classes has been challenging but we are really enjoying them. It is really forcing us to start applying ourselves to learn the language rather than hoping to obtain it by osmosis from the streets. This week we have been pretty heavy on the grammar (the German cases). While we are starting to grasp the rules, we are from knowing them intuitively. Three more weeks to go!
Tonight the DeutschAkademie was also hosting a get together at Brauhaus Südstern in Kreuzberg. We planned to go, others in our class said they were going and Tom and Danika were coming too.
Tom and Danika came to our apartment after their class finished and we picked up some (very good) kebabs from our local guy and some (very cheap) beers from the supermarket.
Later on we went to the Brauhaus Südstern which needed three U-Bahn lines to get there.
At the Brauhaus Südstern we went in and there were lots of people from the DeutschAkademie. But none from our class! Liars!.
There were two students from Tom and Danika's class so we spent the night talking with them at our own table (the other tables were too jammed for us to fit in). They were pretty cool. We tried several pitchers of the Brauhaus's beers which were pretty good.
We were joined at our table for a bit by 'Pascal' the founder/owner of the DeutschAkademie - seemed like a nice guy.
The night seem to disappear very quickly and we were then informed (perhaps falsely) by our new mate Paolo that the trains would stop running in 20 minutes. We were almost finished our beers anyway and didn't want to risk getting stranded so high tailed it out of there.
Three U-Bahn lines again.
And a tram, one stop for us, and stacks more for Tom and Danika up to Prenzlauer Berg.
According to Pascal, the DeutschAkademie run two of these things per course so hopefully we'll get another chance to spend some out of class time with out classmates.
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