I wrote a short blog with pictures, now its time to get down to the news from the first week back to school from fall vacation. This week we got back a couple of tests that we took before the vacation; history, politics, and chemistry. The only one which I actually recieved a grade on was chemistry, and I got a 4. The grading system is 1 through 6, 1 being the best (A+) then 2 is B and so on. The test was difficult, even for a lot of the other people in the class, so I was pretty proud of myself for getting 11.5 points out of 24.
The history test is a whole 'nother thing. Chemistry involves alot of numbers and diagrams, and the elements have similar names (well, some do, Sodium is Natrium, Hydrogen is Wasserstoff). With numbers and pictures, language doesn't really matter, even though learning it is still a problem, but history is words, and only words. On top of that, it was German history, which I don't know much about. The point is, I did bad on the history test. Most people wrote full pages of information for each question, I only hd a couple words scribbled down. For one answer, I simply wrote "Demokratie" (democracy). The funny thing is that the teacher wrote next to it, "Genauer! Was sonst noch?" (More preceise, what else?) Even though he didn't even bother giving me a grade, but he complained about my innaccurate answer.
Maybe now is a good time to mention that German tests are nothing like American tests. Multiple choice questions are only ever seen in math tests, and even then they are few and far between. So far, it seems that for alot of tests you get a couple pieces of paper and a question sheet. This makes things pretty difficult for a non-German speaker to do much of anything on tests, but I do my best.
The politics test was a report we had to write about an internship. About a month ago we went to a job fair type thing and we had to interview somebody at the company where we would like to have an internship. I did my report on Airbus. I managed to scrap together 2 pages of information, and I surprised the teacher when I handed it in. Unfortunatly, she did not grade it, and my homework for next week is to correct the crazy amount of mistakes I had (there were actually 3 whole lines that DIDN'T have mistakes).
Today we took a test in a class, I think I did OK actually, we will see next week when we get it back.
Until next time,
-Kevin
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Kev- Who cares about grades, they don't matter in the in real world! I am sooo proud of you and what you are doing! I think I would have failed all of those tests! I admire you so muchhhhhh for doing this! anddd I love reading your blogs :) keep it upp buddy!
love your cousin lauren
kevo--I'm glad to hear that you're putting yourself out there, language wise. Grades be damned! Three whole lines without mistakes? So maybe next time, it will be 3 1/2 lines without mistakes. Such is the nature of progress.
Glad to see you posting again. Now for some pictures...
Mom (Wow upside down)
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