2024 September #16: Deutsch

By the way we've been spending 4 hours a day, 4 days a week in German language class. It's in the brown building in the center of the cover photo; right around the corner, a 5 minute walk from home.

It's been good: a little structure to the day, my language is more or less back to where it was in Frankfurt & hers is greatly improved, and best of all we've made some friends.

Here's a group from her class at the corner cafe (instructor Torsten, Scottish Joan, silent and nameless Vietnamese kid…missing 1/2 dozen others including David, whom you will meet later…) and my class in the classroom (teacher Mira the DDR native, more on that later, people from Azerbaijan, Afganistan, Korea, Vietnam, Mexico, Japan, Georgia):

And here we are hard at work in the classroom. Yes that's a chalk board:

Class is 9-10:30 & 11-12:30 so there’s a 30 min break in the middle. Here’s the cafe Carlos and I always go to during break: