Der kleine Herr Friedemann
Apart from this, tonight has been: german pilates class, german "Kick Box Karate" class, and riding to and fro in heavy rain.
In Creative Writing this morning we wrote kleine Geschichten about Halloween. It is amazingly difficult to come up with associations with Halloween that aren't blazingly obvious... in German, I mean. Mine were relatively subpar, but Sean's associations (we each had a number of words that we gave to everyone else in the seminar, and then we all had to write stories that included the words. Mine didn't really follow that because I sort of found a plot and then went with it, but you can only go so far until you realize all the grammatical mistakes and then you have to go back and by then its time to read it out loud... yeah.) made having to get out of bed today when it was still dark worth it. I think he gave me "sharp teeth," but the two that had me laughing harder than I have in Jahrhunderts were "plug" (Jacky looks at me like, 'what?') and something like "people who turn their lights off because they don't want to give out candy." Granted, not that funny reading it like it is now, but hearing it in German was so delightful. I don't think anyone else would have understood why I was laughing so hard, but it was great nonetheless.
I don't think I've mentioned that my bike is seemingly stuck in a gear that makes it difficult to go up hills. And speaking of hills, have I mentioned that my brakes don't work that well?
And now to finish up my comprehension of the first round of Thomas Mann. Then I am committing myself to being under warm covers until I absolutely have to be up in order to get to tomorrows 8:30am lecture. Yeesh. Tomorrow is going to be another academic marathon.
In Creative Writing this morning we wrote kleine Geschichten about Halloween. It is amazingly difficult to come up with associations with Halloween that aren't blazingly obvious... in German, I mean. Mine were relatively subpar, but Sean's associations (we each had a number of words that we gave to everyone else in the seminar, and then we all had to write stories that included the words. Mine didn't really follow that because I sort of found a plot and then went with it, but you can only go so far until you realize all the grammatical mistakes and then you have to go back and by then its time to read it out loud... yeah.) made having to get out of bed today when it was still dark worth it. I think he gave me "sharp teeth," but the two that had me laughing harder than I have in Jahrhunderts were "plug" (Jacky looks at me like, 'what?') and something like "people who turn their lights off because they don't want to give out candy." Granted, not that funny reading it like it is now, but hearing it in German was so delightful. I don't think anyone else would have understood why I was laughing so hard, but it was great nonetheless.
I don't think I've mentioned that my bike is seemingly stuck in a gear that makes it difficult to go up hills. And speaking of hills, have I mentioned that my brakes don't work that well?
And now to finish up my comprehension of the first round of Thomas Mann. Then I am committing myself to being under warm covers until I absolutely have to be up in order to get to tomorrows 8:30am lecture. Yeesh. Tomorrow is going to be another academic marathon.
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