Eric sent me a funny video that reminded me it’s time to start practicing German again. My German is better after a few beers, so maybe Saturday’s a good day
Archive for the ‘Sabbatical’ Category
18 Sep
The Brewery Trail
Stephanie, Max, and I have dedicated ourselves to hitting the ten most famous breweries in Bamberg. We picked up a local guide and are crossing them off our list. Lesson learned: With Max we really have to pace ourselves. Yesterday we hit three brauereis for lunch. Max now has a hat shaped like a chicken, [...]
10 Sep
Dreaming in German
I am well into week two of my classes. Every night I dream in German. This week the sentences in my dreams are finally starting to make sense. Stephanie says that this is a good sign that I am learning. I have two test coming up. The first is at school. On Friday I will [...]
3 Sep
Class Has Begun!
Classes began on Monday. I was too nervous to post on Sunday night and too busy to post the last few nights. My work book and lessons are all in German. Also all of the out of class activities are in German, although the professor asked me in English to promise not to sue when [...]
30 Aug
About the Strauch's
Winfried and Evelyn Strauch, from whom we are renting an apartment, have been wonderfully accommodating. The apartment is clean and orderly, all very German according to Stephanie. The only weirdness is that the bathroom is not exactly in the apartment, but rather in a hallway that connects the courtyard/parking area to the rest of the [...]
29 Aug
Day Three: Luggage Arrives
Jet lag is wearing off, so I am not as loopy as yesterday. Or drunk, hmmm, I’ll be right back…. So anyway, after three days we finally have all of our luggage. Thanks to Stephanie’s planning this was not as big a problem as you would expect. She made sure that our carry-on had a [...]
28 Aug
Mmmm… Bacon Beer
After 20+ hours of traveling, missed flights, lost luggage, it’s all worth it. I have found the perfect beer. It is a heavenly melding of BEER and BACON! The smell says bacon, the taste says beer. Actually this might take some getting use to. In the mean time there are 10 breweries in town and [...]
26 Aug
Secret Sabbatical
I didn’t really want to tell everyone until I had officially hit my 35th birthday, but well Channel 3 broke the story early. So…
24 Aug
Sabbatical Begins…. Wait.
My last two weeks have been crazy at work, but I feel I have left everyone with the right tools to cover me. Walking out on Friday was an unreal feeling. My sabbatical had officially begun, but we still had 3 days before our flight to Germany. Saturday we got the house ready, today we [...]
22 Aug
Sabbatical Countdown T-minus 1hr 45minutes….
Treff Punkt Institut Founded in 1995 as a private, independent language institute, today Treff Punkt is one of the leading German language schools specialized on “German as foreign language” in Germany.
