Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Expectations

    So, I've never made or even read a blog before, meaning I have only a rough outline of how they are to be made, and whether or not they are supposed to be formal, or informal. For sake of simplicity, I'll stick with just saying what's in my mind.
   From what I've seen, heard, and read, Germany is an amazing place in many regards. The cities are beautiful, and in the case of Berlin, bustling with people. I've hardly been a state away from Arkansas, much less over seas. I foresee there to be a huge difference in what I've come to know as my common-place life and that of Berlin, Germany. The food, I know will be amazing. Although stereotypical, I hope for most of the meat, bread, and potatoes for which most places link to Germans. And besides food, there's an abundance of things to see and do.
   The schools will of course be different. The year round thing will be a bit odd to experience, though a nice counter of shorter school days will be refreshing, regardless of the fact I'll only have to deal with it for a few days. I won't lie, I am a bit afraid of actually going to school with the host students. For one big reason: experience in the language. Just as the German students spoke English in America, it only makes since to focus on speaking German in Germany. With that said, my German, in my opinion, is basic at best. 3 years of learning the language won't compare to the 16-18 years they have been learning their own language. I get confused fairly often when speaking to Frau Brazle, who I assume tries to use more simplistic language to enable the understanding of the sentence. Speaking with someone(probably multiple people) who've been learning the language from birth will confuse me far more often. Anyway, I digress. The smaller schools will be a nice change to the nothing but large schools I've attended throughout my life.
   I'm not quite sure if there is any required length to this, and I'm terrible at outros in any case, so I'll end it here. Perhaps edit it later on if it turns out that I did something wrong. If that's a thing. Editing that is.

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