German Language Tour

Tag Sechszehn (Day Sixteen) by

Zoe Doodewaard

Hallo!

Today started off a little bit earlier, unlike the other days. After yesterday’s incident, with some trains not working and the trip to school feeling like a maze, we had to wake up a little bit earlier to be extra safe to not be late Anyway, the day started at 6:30 am Struggling to get out of bed, we all made our way down to breakfast. And like you have read many other times… breakfast consisted of cold meat, bread… I’m joking, you don’t have to read that again. After breakfast, like always, we head out the door Because of the train delays, we had to walk an extra 5 minutes to a different train station, Ostkreuz Then, stay on that line all the way to Zoologischer Garten We then had the option of catching another tram to our destination, Wittenberg Platz, but we decided to walk as it was only the next station over, some good exercise anyway.

Because we were half an hour early, we all wanted to visit the supermarket We bought snacks, drinks and fruit for class and lunch. Personally, I got an iced coffee as I was very tired and luckily it was the last day of language school.

At 9:30 am school commenced, for the first session of the day (9:30 to 11) we revised the questions for our upcoming test, which had questions like ‘What is the tram route from your hostel to language school?’ And ‘what is your favourite thing about Berlin?’ We of course had to answer them in German For our break, like usual, a couple of us hung out outside on the balcony, for the fresh air and the beautiful overlook of Berlin. The next session got underway, which included the 3 question test. We had to write 5 sentences for each question and use the things we learnt throughout language school. After the test finished, our fabulous teacher informed us of the next activity that we will be doing, which we will do in the afternoon session

After the quick brief on what was happening next, it was finally 12:45 pm. My favourite time, as we got to go down to the little shops, on the corner of Inlingua, and get Currywurst Like every other currywurst we have had, it was sehr lecker After our lunch break, which ended at 2 o’clock, we got straight into our activity. The task was to go into the KaDeWe aka Kaufhaus des Westerns (a department store). Go to the level you were assigned to. Find the coolest-looking thing, and work out what products our floor sold and so on And also do the same for the 6th floor Elsa and I had level 3, which was a women’s floor There were lots of designer brands and expensive things Did I mention it was a very expensiv ore, with top designer brands and lots of e

Once we had got the information we needed we headed back to school. Our next mission was to create and presentation about our floor We presented in front of the class and the 4 fantastic teachers, Frau Wyatt, Frau Synnot, Frau Walter and Frau Beck Elsa and I made a quick speech, in German of course, and made little props for the products that were on our level. We also had photos presented on the board to show our favourite items. After everyone completed and presented their presentation Our teacher, Frau Ideko, gave us all a certificate and a Kartoffel snack And with a quick photo with all of us, Inlingua school had officially finished Although it was very sad to leave, we are incredibly grateful for all that the two great teachers taught us. I think all of us have improved rapidly. After saying our goodbyes, we made our way back to la Pegasus. Before heading into the supermarket across the street, to grab a few snacks for the train ride tomorrow

For dinner, la Pegasus provided us with chicken, sausage, chips (of course ) and salad. But also, the teachers provided us with something. As we were doing our little mission in KaDeWe. Mrs Synnot and Mrs Wyatt had followed us and spied on us the whole time (I guess the spy museum did actually teach them something) After dinner, Mrs Wyatt and Mrs Synnot did a presentation like ours, they had taken photos of ridiculously expensive clothes presented them on their computer and talked about the clothes in German. Although their pronunciation could do with some work, I still think it was a pretty decent presentation It definitely made us all cackle

After packing our bags, we had showers and got ready for bed. We are all extremely tired and it’s an early start for the train ride tomorrow to Munich Although Munich is supposed to be beautiful and I am very excited about it, it is also the last destination of our trip Which means our tour is coming to an end. I have had the best time I could possibly have and, I would like to thank Mrs Wyatt and Frau Beck and all the people that put all their hard work into this trip and making it happen.

P S I do have one piece of advice though: do not wear cheap pants while lunging, it will not end well