I had my first day of class at the Montreal Goethe-Institut today. It was a great walk down through Parc LaFontaine and rue Cherrier out to St. Denis. There were footprints in the snow over the pond in the parc, so I assume the ice is frozen. It'd be great if the lake were open for skating sometime this winter; it was liquid last week.
The class itself was great. The building itself is like the office of a dot-com with good VC backing -- indirect lighting and modern furniture and quiet carpeting. My lehrerin is a nice woman from Freiburg. We had about 8 people in the class, a good mix of men and women, young and old, Quebecois and eux autres.
We spent most of the class time practicing how to introduce ourselves, say hello and where we were from and where we lived and such and so. I haven't taken a class in so long, it was a little hard to get back in the swing of things. I didn't even have a notebook with me -- just my Moleskine notebook, which it seems a waste to fill up with irregular verbs. But we'll see.
I got home and sang the song we learned to Maj and Amita June, just so they knew how Deutsch I am now. Here's the song (to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"):
"Guten Abend! Ich heiße Knabe!" "Freut mich! Jonny Watanabe." "Kommen Sie aus Tokio?" "Nein! Ich komm' aus Buffalo!"
I also updated my Wikitravel German user page with my newly-learned personal information. We'll see how that progresses over the next few weeks.
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