It means- gloomy November. It is gloomy. And dark. Sometimes, for a second, you get to see the little pieces of sky that are left up there... Most of the time you see white sky. Yes! it's white! not even gray- just one big foggy cloud. It rains most of the time, but we also had snow already on Saturday night. It melted after 2 hours, but since then precipitation was mainly rain mixed with hail mixed with snow that melted on the way down from the huge big cloud that we call "The sky".
That's it for the weather.
Now to more interesting things:
Yesterday I had my second Hebrew lesson- went really good. My boss (if I can call her that) said that I'm a real "Mashki'anit" which basically means in Hebrew- that I put a lot of effort into things. Well I just don't like to do half of a job. Or even 90% of a job. Especially when I'm the one standing in the spot light in the end- teaching the lesson- coz if I don't really invest in it before- I'm the one who's gonna be standing there and not knowing what to do.
While I was teaching the last group of the three, I noticed police cars outside, and noise. My boss opened the door and we saw a group of about 30 ppl, gathering in front of the place. Apparently
it was a group of German ppl who are Israel supporters and were there to mention the Kristallnacht. They played some Klezmer music, and had a small ceremony. They moved from one Jewish institute to another, the whole Sunday morning, even though it was close to freezing degrees outside and raining. They had speakers- and everyone around could hear them. It made me feel so good here. It was heart warming to see ppl in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, where the NPD (National Democratic Party in Germany, AKA the new Nazis) has most of their votes from, doing something like that.
And to a different subject: my mom and my sister booked a flight to come here!!! It's in ages from now (3 months) but I'm so excited!!! Yey!!! They're gonna be here for a whole week!
Other then that - my new class in German school is much better, my teachers are genuine and nice, and simply good teachers. Even though I must admit that there are times when I still feel like breaking something / someone just because I really have a hard time learning German... Especially when I have to write an essay. We're suppose to practice writing a short essay of about 120 words. Every teacher gives us a new topic every week- which means that we have to write 2 of them per week. Well... don't have to write- it's an option- but if we want to pass the final German exams- the ones that will determine if we get into uni in Germany- we should. Anyway, you're probably asking yourselves: what the hell is her problem? she's been writing and yapping here on this blog for so long now! what's her problem to write 120 words as an essay??? What's the problem you ask? The problem is that for a person like me, who most of the time has lots to say about just about almost anything, it's really hard to write when I don't have the vocabulary, or worse- the grammar to write in a foreign language. It feels like I have so much going on in my brain, and I always have so much to say about the topics they give us- but all these thoughts and ideas go through a very dense small holed net- and all my thoughts are being screened away. My head usually threatens to explode and at some point I bang on the desk, breathing in and out slowly to make the anger go away. I've been driving Rob crazy with questions like: "How do I say this?" or "What's better to say- this or that?" he can't do anything while I write my essays coz I totally suck him into my nutty little frustrated world.
*Sigh*
Hope it'll get better... At least I'm kinda enjoying my classes :-)
That's it for now, if I'll have anything to say- don't worry, you know me- I will!
4 comments:
I would suggest you to use automatic translation (such as translate.google.com), even though this way you may miss your original purpose. However, it might actually help you with vocabulary.
I think you should find a good online dictionary, the type that gives you examples of commonly used sentences for every word. There mast be something like that in German, right?
Congratulation for the visit of your family.
I wish you well with your language study,
- Woogy
I actually use a really good dictionary online, and some other websites too, it helps but the problem is that for every word I wanna say there are a 1000 options how to say them in German- and they are sorted by alphabetical order- not by most commonly used... I actually thought about using a translation program- but again- sometimes they lose all the meaning of what you were trying to say- and coz I don't know enough German to correct it- I'm still at the start point after using them...
Thanks for the congrats,
and for the wishes :-)
שמחה לראות שמצאת משהו לעשות.
וקר כאן. אין לי מושג איך אתן מסתדרות אבל שלג התחיל לרדת בפרנקפורט ואני רק רוצה להעלם מתחת לשמיכה ולשתות שוקו.
חייבת להגיד לך שהעצות שלך לגבי הבגדים שצריך ללבוש בגרמניה עבדו באופן פלאים כך שאומנם קר אבל הגוף שלי מחומם.
ראיתי שפרסמת בפורום לינק לאתר שלך אבל לא הצלחתי לפתוח אותו :( אנסה שוב בבית.
כיף שבאים לבקר אותך.
שמחה לדעת שאת לא קופאת,
והכי חשוב שאת מבלה בנעימים:-)
תהני מהלובן של השלג כל עוד הוא לא נמס-
זה מיד מייצר עוד כמה אנדורפינים במוח!
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