For what amounts to almost the whole time I've spent living in Germany, I have been taking German language lessons. What this amounts to is a lot of headaches/time/money/'Hausaufgabe'(homework).
When I started out, I was in a beginners class at the local VHS(Volkshochschule), which can best be described as career center...kind of. I entered my first German class and although was behind for a bit, I started to excell and soon pushed my way to the 'most awesome person in the class' status (status given to me, by me). Naturally, I enrolled in another class. Then another. Then another.
I soon found out that the participants in the local VHS weren't really up to the academicness/snootiness/socially-awareness/logical-ness/themes that I felt were necessary. Therefore, I switched to a school/business/money-grubbing-staff/foreign students' playground that was more situated towards my likings. It wasn't bad at first, but I soon realized that my teacher liked to give out homework like the Catholic Church likes to give out Hail Mary’s. Doing this homework not gave me an understanding for how much I actually suck at learning German, but it also gave me a lot of headaches/tantrums/fights with my boyfriends/nights of feeling helplessly suck in a country where this impossible language was possible.
And now, almost two years later, here I am in the situation. Doing my homework, which totals to what seems like one-million pages, I have learned, yet again how utterly incapable at writing in German I am. When this is realized, you can smell the breaking apart of my frontal lobe as it is yet again being lobotomized by my homework.
And this is all because I want/need to/must learn German. So here I am in a situation where I need to learn German to make, what I think is, a life/incomprehensible the comprehendible/home, but it turns out I'm doing the complete opposite: making a impossible/tantrum-filled/complicated/mind-splitting/homesick feeling.
Whoever said learning is fun has never learnt German. And if they HAVE...then they're just queer.
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