Sorry for lack of more daily updates on here. I have a lot more things to read and prepare and other school related things now. Yeah, and anything keyboard related is becoming a bit of a task, seeing as both the 'd' and 'e' keys are gone and 'h' is on its way out. Apparently when I'm gaming I run to the right too much and throw too many flashbang grenades.
So, whats been happening? 12 people in Neuerburg were killed in a shootout after the police broke a major drugs smuggling and human trafficking ring here. They were also believed to be part of some international suicide cult. Pretty crazy.
But whatever, as far as schools concerned, its actually getting a lot better. I'm doing proper assistanty things with english teachers, meaning I read English books and prepare material aimed at 11 year olds learning English, which is so much fucking easier than learning the rules of English grammar, translating them into German, and then trying to explain it. I'm gonna try and pass off this class onto an actual teacher.
Not because I don't like them, but I really don't think they're gonna learn a great deal with me. They need a teacher, who I can assist, as is suggested in my official title, foreign langauge assistant.
In a more superficial sense, freeing myself of those classes would mean I don't have to wake up at quarter past 7 four days a week. I don't even know how it got to that stage. I've realised in the last couple of days that I think its also affecting how accurately I can place my 'achievement level' for the day. I'll explain:
Speaking a foreign language for a whole day can get tiring sometimes, because your doing translating and processing words, sometimes really quickly, while still trying to look interested in what the other person is saying. It can get more difficult, as half the time I haven't a damn clue what they're talking about; I couldn't even give a general theme to some of my conversations. Which means that you then have to blag an answer that looks like you understood.
Theres kind of a point of no return, after which the "sorry, can you repeat that please? I am a retard and didn't understand anything" response is just inappropriate. If you manage to say it nice and early, no problem. After a 5 minute monologue? Nope. Right, so where was I?
Oh yeah - doing all this speaking and understanding can be knackering, but in the words of the wise and wonderful Sophie Walker: "If you go to bed at the end of a day feeling knackered, you know you've really worked hard and achieved something". I thought this was a nice sentiment, and stuck to it, trying to speak lots of German and going to bed knackered.
But, like I say, in the last 2 days my common sense has kicked in and said "Max, you go to bed feeling knackered because you're waking up every day earlier than you have for the best part of 10 years. It's not because you're speaking lots of amazing German. Dickhead."
My common sense is cruel, but probably correct.
You'll also all be happy to know that I seemed to have beat my chocomel addiction cold turkey and am now addicted to apple juice. At some, point, I will recycle the 32 cartons that I now have lying around.
Oh, and Autumn has arrived.
He's kicking ass and taking names.
So, whats been happening? 12 people in Neuerburg were killed in a shootout after the police broke a major drugs smuggling and human trafficking ring here. They were also believed to be part of some international suicide cult. Pretty crazy.
But whatever, as far as schools concerned, its actually getting a lot better. I'm doing proper assistanty things with english teachers, meaning I read English books and prepare material aimed at 11 year olds learning English, which is so much fucking easier than learning the rules of English grammar, translating them into German, and then trying to explain it. I'm gonna try and pass off this class onto an actual teacher.
Not because I don't like them, but I really don't think they're gonna learn a great deal with me. They need a teacher, who I can assist, as is suggested in my official title, foreign langauge assistant.
In a more superficial sense, freeing myself of those classes would mean I don't have to wake up at quarter past 7 four days a week. I don't even know how it got to that stage. I've realised in the last couple of days that I think its also affecting how accurately I can place my 'achievement level' for the day. I'll explain:
Speaking a foreign language for a whole day can get tiring sometimes, because your doing translating and processing words, sometimes really quickly, while still trying to look interested in what the other person is saying. It can get more difficult, as half the time I haven't a damn clue what they're talking about; I couldn't even give a general theme to some of my conversations. Which means that you then have to blag an answer that looks like you understood.
Theres kind of a point of no return, after which the "sorry, can you repeat that please? I am a retard and didn't understand anything" response is just inappropriate. If you manage to say it nice and early, no problem. After a 5 minute monologue? Nope. Right, so where was I?
Oh yeah - doing all this speaking and understanding can be knackering, but in the words of the wise and wonderful Sophie Walker: "If you go to bed at the end of a day feeling knackered, you know you've really worked hard and achieved something". I thought this was a nice sentiment, and stuck to it, trying to speak lots of German and going to bed knackered.
But, like I say, in the last 2 days my common sense has kicked in and said "Max, you go to bed feeling knackered because you're waking up every day earlier than you have for the best part of 10 years. It's not because you're speaking lots of amazing German. Dickhead."
My common sense is cruel, but probably correct.
You'll also all be happy to know that I seemed to have beat my chocomel addiction cold turkey and am now addicted to apple juice. At some, point, I will recycle the 32 cartons that I now have lying around.
Oh, and Autumn has arrived.
He's kicking ass and taking names.
