I’ve been taking this German class at 4PM everyday. Yesterday we started the class with a module on telling time. I’m not sure why, but I found it pretty amusing when 3 people came in 15 minutes late. Late to time! Hahahahaha! Moving on. Telling time is basically the same in German. You can say […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
How to Get Ready for the Gym
We’re going to get signed up for a local gym, but before that we need to prepare ourselves…
Shopping Adventure
Today we went out and did a little shopping. The primary goal was to get a toaster oven, which after some trouble, we managed to do: We decided to do more wandering, which is becoming a theme, and found something pretty neat: The first words out of my mouth were “Boy, that’s for a baby […]
Möhren Eko
Today’s cheese is the Möhren Eko. It’s a hard cheese that, unlike most cheeses here, has a slight orange/yellow color to it. This is also the first cheese we’ve encountered where the outer layer is actually not edible. I discovered that quite… accidentally. On to the cheese itself! The outer edges are slightly hard and […]
Park
Over the past several days, we’ve started exploring along the river. The first instance was the walk over to the fair. Today we looked over a different area. We didn’t do much exploring really, but we did find a nice park with a fountain. We sat on a bench for a bit. I took a […]
Count Up
Hey, guess what. Today marks us being here for 1 month. I’m using the “moved in to the room” metric as “being here”. This puts us about 1/9 of the way through our time here. It seems like we’ve been here longer than that, but the time has gone really fast. It’s rather odd. For […]
Hallways
We’ve got neat hallways here in Austria. Check it out:
Voorhees
Today, we stopped by the human resources department of the school to drop off confirmation that I attended the training last week. On the certificate, they spelled my name “Vorhees.” I asked the man if it was a problem that it was spelled wrong. He said not to worry; no one will notice because no […]
Fair!
This evening after my German class, we went over to a fair that Mary Jo learned about from her new students. We actually walked along the river a ways first, stopping at a couple of parks (oh man – we need to go back for pictures! *tease), and a small outdoor amphitheater. The fair itself […]
Meeting the First Class
Just got back from the first class. It went well; the students were friendly and not unwilling to speak. My presentation went over pretty well. One interesting thing is that because this is a teacher-training college, the English courses focus not just on improving the English of the teachers in training but also on teaching […]