Today I narrowly 'avoided' my first F in Germany. The German teacher handed back my essay with red pen wherever I made a mistake. My essay was hardly visible underneath the deep red blob of 'Rechtschreibung'. But he's a nice guy and, instead of giving me the obvious grade I deserved, he said on the back: "I know it's hard to write in a foreign language. Good job in trying your best."
In Biology I had a boring experience. Our teacher is probably the worst teacher I've ever had, so we weren't looking forward to class. As we wrote the title of the chapter, "Bacteria and Insulin", a classmate of mine piped up: "What's insulin?" The teachers reply was a 20 minute discussion on how insulin is so great and can cure diseases and diabetes and there's 2 types of diabetes and one's inherited and the other can happen when you get overweight so don't eat too many potato chips, kids and I feel like I'm writing a pretty good description of how the teacher went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and am I repeating myself?
By the time she ended her sentence class was over.
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don't sweat it. writing in german is really, really hard. i never even got close. it also is much different from writing in english. most written english sounds a lot like how you would speak... but nobody speaks german like it is written. it is kind of like how william faulkner or james joyce wrote in english...
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Man... I don't understand a word of this gibberish they write.
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