Travelling by fruit
Heute ich fahre in die Schule mit dem Fahrrad fahren. Die Reisen machen mir sehr gut und frisch fuhlen. Wir kommen in die Schule nach eins uhr und funf minuten fahren. Besser als unsere erste Zeit.
My grammar is sketchy and my spelling pretty horrible, but my memory is beginning to regurgitate words and phrases I thought were long forgotten. I am a student again. At (almost) 24. It is a strange feeling, but nice, to be learning again. I am putting my hand up, answering the questions that I can, and proceeding to make a great fool of myself for the benefit of the rest of the class haha. For example, and forgive me before I begin, but today I was saying a sentence and got a word mixed up because it sounded similar to the one I meant to use.
I said “Ich reise nach Cornwall im Obst”, instead of “Ich resie nach Cornwall im Herbst”. The difference you ask? Basically instead of saying I was going in Autumn, I said I was going in fruit. Yes, my choice of carriage was a la Shrek in a pumpkin or apple. Perhaps I was to fly a banana. It got our class laughing anyway!
Well I can say I am not the most practiced in my knowledge of the words and endings, but my pronunciation continues to sound very German, as opposed to how some other accents are able to articulate a foreign language. I was asked for directions this morning by a Deutsch Frau, and I was able to understand her and direct her accordingly. It felt good.
On our ride home we veered off course to discover some new areas, on our current ride the first sight we have in the morning is the TV tower on the horizon as the sun is rising, then we ride down towards the river where we ride past one of the more famous sights – the East Side Gallery, a part of the old Berlin wall that has been decorated in monumental graffiti to signify the artist’s impressions of what tearing down the wall meant to them. Today we found – most importantly – a gelateria worked in by a girl our age from Hackney, London, that has free Wi-fi and does the nicest Eis for only 80cents a scoop. I had a grapefruit and a honey flavor gelato.
In the afternoon we all met at Alexanderplatz where Jeremy (British) and Lutz (German) the program co-ordinators took us through the main sights of inner-city tourist central Berlin. From the TV tower, past the statue of Karl Marx and Engels, the fountain with Trident, all the way through Museum Island and down to Brandenberg Tor (where President Kennedy said “Ich bin ein Berliner”) around the government house, through some of the Tiergarten and the Jewish war monument where space, time and feeling can be lost, down to Potsdammer Platz with the giant sony centre and big screen.
Just out of the way we went and sat at a bar which was on a decking overlooking a lake. It had groovy little seats and big tables, but Jay and I settled in the deck chairs that were strung for lying back. We just sat and rested our weary feet after such a walk, luckily no rain involved and even a bit of sun on my face (despite applying sunscreen this morning).
We had an old lady with white hair come and stand in our group while Lutz was giving his introduction, she obviously didn’t speak any English because Jeremy introduced her as Agnes and said she was coming with us today. We were all laughing and when Lutz continued to speak she just wondered off.
At the Brandenberg Tor there was an interesting band playing – the lead was on a clarinet and you could almost describe the music as a jazzy Egyptian sound. He was a natural redhead with long hair and a long shaggy beard, but he played that clarinet with all his might.
It was already 9 by the time I got home so I just made some pesto pasta with salami, pickles, cherry tomatoes, garlic and parmesan while we all watched the German version of You’ve Got Framed (GB) or Funniest Home Videos (Aus).
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