Story Time!
So I really thought that today I was going to send the email that started off something that the people I live with or have lived with (especially Abby) are pretty familiar with. It usually happens twice a year around exam time, and it is the time where I start making really irrational statements like "Education is over-rated" etc. etc. and it goes on from there. I see this irrational time as a result of stress, and it was totally going to start today with "Foreign Language is over-rated". But alas, I have apparently come out of my funk for the time being, and so this irrational time is being held off for at least another day. Yay! Now you want to know what almost started this and what ended it? I think you do. So here it goes.
Once upon a time in a land far away, there lived a girl named Sierra. She had always been interested in speaking other languages, and so she decided to learn one. Unfortunately, she thought that by going to a new Land, she would learn this new language better and faster. So she left all her family and friends for sometime and went to classes where only the new language was spoken. The first few weeks went very well, and she thought that she was really getting it. Then suddenly, nothing made sense! She went to class everyday, but everyday the teacher seemed to be using more and more words she didn't know. And because there was someone in her class who didn't like her, she didn't feel like she could always ask what the teacher meant for fear that the mean boy would be even meaner. So she stayed silent many times, and although she made grand plans to learn one-hundred words every week, she still felt very behind. She started to wonder if she really wanted to speak more than one language in the first place. One day she got a letter that said that the program she had applied for to get a job in the new Land for a few months had decided that she was good enough to go onto the next level. Sierra was very excited but a little worried too, because apparently, in order to continue in the competition she would have to speak to the head of the program in her new language as well as her mother language. Sierra tried not to get to anxious, and when the time came to talk to the Lady, she did very well. The lady said that Sierra had understood the new language very well, and that she had done a good job answering the questions. The Lady had had no problem understanding her. Sierra rejoiced! Maybe learning this new language was going better than she thought! On her way home from talking with the Lady, Sierra had to get something for her sore throat, and she had to speak the new language again. This time Sierra had no problem talking in her new language, and when she got home, she felt like maybe it wasted a waste after all. The End.
So how did you guys like the story? I wasn't really planning on telling it that way, but I thought it was a nice touch. Hope you enjoyed it! Now lets clear up some things about the story, that you may have questions about. Yes, there is a guy in my class who I am convinced doesn't like me, and it does make me nervous to ask what words mean, especially because he seems to always know what the word means. Yes, I did indeed apply for an internship program that would get me a job in Germany over the summer of 2007. Yes, I did get an email (not letter, I had to change the wording to make it more fairy-tale like) that said they had selected me to go on to phone interviews. Yes, I had the phone interview today, and I think it went well. Luckily the interviewer, who was a woman, asked easy questions in Germany, and I understood everything. Yes, I do have a sore throat and had to get some cough drops at the pharmacist on my way home. And finally...Yes it was the conversations with the Pharmacist and the interviewer which were completely in Germany, that made me feel like it might actually be worth it do continue with my study of German.
So now onto the notes I took about things I wanted to include in my next email. First of all welcome to the new people. I very much enjoy adding new people to my list, so if any of you know anyone else that wants to join this little following of mine, go ahead and send me their email addresses.
I hear that there has been talk about my emails going on in both my church and my extended family. So who's winning? Family or Church? That I don't know. Want to duke it out? I'd like to know the winner. Just please spare each other's lives. I don't want any bloodshed.
I left out comments on one important amenity in my last email: The Laundry! Yeah that one is insane. It costs 3 euro or $3.75 to put one load of laundry in the washing machine. I cringe every time I have to by the wash token. Luckily, the dryer is free, so that's not as bad. My roommate tries to wash all her clothes by hand and then only use the dryer, but I don't want to do that. I hate laundry enough as it is. Of course now I have to wash my clothes about every five days because I don't have enough clothes here. It's a little annoying. I only get about one day to rejoice over new clothes before I have to thinking about washing them again.
And my last note for now is...I'm considering buying a German dictionary. You know one that's completely in German, liked I'd buy for English. I mean if I don't buy it now, when will I buy it? And I think it might be a handy thing to have. I'm getting to the point where some of the words I look up in my German-English dictionary aren't there, because they're not used that much. But if I had an all German dictionary, they probably would be. And I can only buy that when I'm actually in Germany. The problem is that it's 30 euro, and while that really is about the price I should expect, I don't really know if I want to spend that much money. I feel like I'm spending too much money as it is. So yeah, I don't know. I think I'm going to have to think on that one a bit more.
Okay I think this ends today's episode of "What's going on in Sierra's life/mind?"
Once upon a time in a land far away, there lived a girl named Sierra. She had always been interested in speaking other languages, and so she decided to learn one. Unfortunately, she thought that by going to a new Land, she would learn this new language better and faster. So she left all her family and friends for sometime and went to classes where only the new language was spoken. The first few weeks went very well, and she thought that she was really getting it. Then suddenly, nothing made sense! She went to class everyday, but everyday the teacher seemed to be using more and more words she didn't know. And because there was someone in her class who didn't like her, she didn't feel like she could always ask what the teacher meant for fear that the mean boy would be even meaner. So she stayed silent many times, and although she made grand plans to learn one-hundred words every week, she still felt very behind. She started to wonder if she really wanted to speak more than one language in the first place. One day she got a letter that said that the program she had applied for to get a job in the new Land for a few months had decided that she was good enough to go onto the next level. Sierra was very excited but a little worried too, because apparently, in order to continue in the competition she would have to speak to the head of the program in her new language as well as her mother language. Sierra tried not to get to anxious, and when the time came to talk to the Lady, she did very well. The lady said that Sierra had understood the new language very well, and that she had done a good job answering the questions. The Lady had had no problem understanding her. Sierra rejoiced! Maybe learning this new language was going better than she thought! On her way home from talking with the Lady, Sierra had to get something for her sore throat, and she had to speak the new language again. This time Sierra had no problem talking in her new language, and when she got home, she felt like maybe it wasted a waste after all. The End.
So how did you guys like the story? I wasn't really planning on telling it that way, but I thought it was a nice touch. Hope you enjoyed it! Now lets clear up some things about the story, that you may have questions about. Yes, there is a guy in my class who I am convinced doesn't like me, and it does make me nervous to ask what words mean, especially because he seems to always know what the word means. Yes, I did indeed apply for an internship program that would get me a job in Germany over the summer of 2007. Yes, I did get an email (not letter, I had to change the wording to make it more fairy-tale like) that said they had selected me to go on to phone interviews. Yes, I had the phone interview today, and I think it went well. Luckily the interviewer, who was a woman, asked easy questions in Germany, and I understood everything. Yes, I do have a sore throat and had to get some cough drops at the pharmacist on my way home. And finally...Yes it was the conversations with the Pharmacist and the interviewer which were completely in Germany, that made me feel like it might actually be worth it do continue with my study of German.
So now onto the notes I took about things I wanted to include in my next email. First of all welcome to the new people. I very much enjoy adding new people to my list, so if any of you know anyone else that wants to join this little following of mine, go ahead and send me their email addresses.
I hear that there has been talk about my emails going on in both my church and my extended family. So who's winning? Family or Church? That I don't know. Want to duke it out? I'd like to know the winner. Just please spare each other's lives. I don't want any bloodshed.
I left out comments on one important amenity in my last email: The Laundry! Yeah that one is insane. It costs 3 euro or $3.75 to put one load of laundry in the washing machine. I cringe every time I have to by the wash token. Luckily, the dryer is free, so that's not as bad. My roommate tries to wash all her clothes by hand and then only use the dryer, but I don't want to do that. I hate laundry enough as it is. Of course now I have to wash my clothes about every five days because I don't have enough clothes here. It's a little annoying. I only get about one day to rejoice over new clothes before I have to thinking about washing them again.
And my last note for now is...I'm considering buying a German dictionary. You know one that's completely in German, liked I'd buy for English. I mean if I don't buy it now, when will I buy it? And I think it might be a handy thing to have. I'm getting to the point where some of the words I look up in my German-English dictionary aren't there, because they're not used that much. But if I had an all German dictionary, they probably would be. And I can only buy that when I'm actually in Germany. The problem is that it's 30 euro, and while that really is about the price I should expect, I don't really know if I want to spend that much money. I feel like I'm spending too much money as it is. So yeah, I don't know. I think I'm going to have to think on that one a bit more.
Okay I think this ends today's episode of "What's going on in Sierra's life/mind?"