Guten Tag! Ich heisse Frank. Wie geht es Ihnen?
That's the gist of what we learnt last night in our first German class. Fortunately the teacher (Uli) is great fun; she had us up and down all night, walking around the room practising phrases on each other. A clever ruse to get us all talking and remembering (oh, so hard) all our names. It also helps overcome lethargy in what is actually a very long evening (6pm-9pm). The group is nicely varied, some learning "for love" (you'll learn the quickest said Uli), some for travel, for work, and one just because the other class he tried was full (he's doing Russian and Czech as well).
DA, DR and I grabbed some food and drink to take in before class and managed to scoff it during break. Then I walked DR to Spring St where I jumped on a train and he went home (all these city-dwellers).
The other excitement for the day was the printers' striking for 48 hours -- the end result being that today's paper was minuscule, and tomorrow's looks to be little better. And, because the union has decided that to be fair any workers rostered off Thursday and Friday must strike on Saturday and Sunday, the effects will roll on to Sunday and Monday's papers. At least we had no edition changes to process this morning, as there was only one edition.
On to St Dorothy's day celebrations this afternoon -- Tat is picking me up at 4 and whisking me away to the wilds of Glenhuntly (Glen Huntly). What fun we all will have!
Auf Wiedershen!
That's the gist of what we learnt last night in our first German class. Fortunately the teacher (Uli) is great fun; she had us up and down all night, walking around the room practising phrases on each other. A clever ruse to get us all talking and remembering (oh, so hard) all our names. It also helps overcome lethargy in what is actually a very long evening (6pm-9pm). The group is nicely varied, some learning "for love" (you'll learn the quickest said Uli), some for travel, for work, and one just because the other class he tried was full (he's doing Russian and Czech as well).
DA, DR and I grabbed some food and drink to take in before class and managed to scoff it during break. Then I walked DR to Spring St where I jumped on a train and he went home (all these city-dwellers).
The other excitement for the day was the printers' striking for 48 hours -- the end result being that today's paper was minuscule, and tomorrow's looks to be little better. And, because the union has decided that to be fair any workers rostered off Thursday and Friday must strike on Saturday and Sunday, the effects will roll on to Sunday and Monday's papers. At least we had no edition changes to process this morning, as there was only one edition.
On to St Dorothy's day celebrations this afternoon -- Tat is picking me up at 4 and whisking me away to the wilds of Glenhuntly (Glen Huntly). What fun we all will have!
Auf Wiedershen!
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