Off to Deuschtland!

[Ser Clegane]

,,Goebelmasse''

Never heard that one (but as we are talking about "slangwords" here that does of course not mean that it doesn't exist or isn't used)

I like it

[GoreBag]

That reminds me. In what province are you staying, Kenshin?

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Sachsen-Anhalt, I am probably 5 minutes from the border with Niedersachsen and in the Northern region. I am not very close to Mecklenburg or Brandenburg though. I am sort of in the bulge righ before Sachsen-Anhalt starts to peter out into Mecklenburg.

I did just look at a map, but if I messed anything up I am really very sorry, the map didn't actually show my town and though I would say my Germany Geography is fairly good I do have the occasional stupid Amerikaner moment due in part to a lack of knowledge and in part to so much being different and new.

And to end this on a more interesting note I think my host dad may be a little nostalgic for the good old days of the DDR in some ways...He's one of two people in my town to read Neues Deutschland (sp on Neues?), a socialist paper, and he makes jokes about people being capitalists and comments about the DDR all the time.
But he's pretty cool, and it is kind of cool that both he and the guy who lives on the second floor both still have their coats from when they were in the DDR army, though I think the other guy definately keeps it not because of nostalgia but because it is a fairly good coat.

[GoreBag]

Ah, not fishheads, then. Phew.

Yeah, you've spelled 'neues' correctly.

How do you like the schedule at German school thus far?

[Uesugi Kenshin]

At the moment I'd have to say I dislike it. Different classes every day and very short classes (50 minutes compared to 1.5 hours where I'm from) really messes me up, and I don't like how I have to take my classes for the whole year. Also I am required to be in a German class with the class that I have joined, so I pass notes for that period because it is way beyond me. Having to be in Latin also blows, because I don't know Latin, it's in German, and they've been taking it for 3 years or so, so I pass notes and study German. I don't really hate it though, it is something I can live with even if I prefer the way that it is done in my school back home, though that is a bit weird compared to many US schools....

[GoreBag]

I remember being interested in attending school in Germany because there was simply less time spent at the school.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Hmmm, I think the school day is a little bit shorter on average, a six lesson day runs from 7:10 or so until about 12:50, at my school in the US you are in class for between 7 and 7.5 hours a day, here you have 3 days of 5 hours of classes, and two of almost 7. So yeah I guess that is true, but the girl that lives on the second floor of my house (not a member of my host family, I live in a condo like arrangement) has one day with 10 classes, so she probably goes to school for about as long as people at my school in the US.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I remember being interested in attending school in Germany because there was simply less time spent at the school.

There is considerably less summer holiday then in Canada, however, if I recall correctly.