First real class!
Oct. 5th, 2007 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishMy brain is in some kind of minor pain caused by high levels of concentration on German lecture.
So, today was my first lecture class at the University of Vienna, The Archeology of Catastrophe: Literature and Politics of the Weimar Republic . I had been speaking English all day, which was a bad idea, because I only really got into gear with German towards the middle of the lecture. However, I did understand a lot of what she was saying. The style, unfortunately, was really reading aloud an essay she'd written on the topic, which meant that it was more grammatically complex than normal speech, which meant that I was sometimes a bit a drift.
However: I can do this. I understood enough, I could get what she meant, I didn't have any problems with getting that, and much of what she's going to be talking about next time will be covered in the book that she's assigned for us to read.
Post lecture, I came home, ate a late dinner, and then went to Down Under (the Australian pub favored by the Erasmus program for reasons beyond my understanding. ) It was okay, and I limited myself to the amount of alcohol that could be purchased for only ten euros, so that I wouldn't spend too much. Sadly, E3.80 only goes into 10 twice with change, so my Strongbow addiction my keep me sober but tasteful.
So, today was my first lecture class at the University of Vienna, The Archeology of Catastrophe: Literature and Politics of the Weimar Republic . I had been speaking English all day, which was a bad idea, because I only really got into gear with German towards the middle of the lecture. However, I did understand a lot of what she was saying. The style, unfortunately, was really reading aloud an essay she'd written on the topic, which meant that it was more grammatically complex than normal speech, which meant that I was sometimes a bit a drift.
However: I can do this. I understood enough, I could get what she meant, I didn't have any problems with getting that, and much of what she's going to be talking about next time will be covered in the book that she's assigned for us to read.
Post lecture, I came home, ate a late dinner, and then went to Down Under (the Australian pub favored by the Erasmus program for reasons beyond my understanding. ) It was okay, and I limited myself to the amount of alcohol that could be purchased for only ten euros, so that I wouldn't spend too much. Sadly, E3.80 only goes into 10 twice with change, so my Strongbow addiction my keep me sober but tasteful.
