So I haven’t updated in a fair while and really although I’m not the best person at remembering to update this blog it’s not all entirely my fault. I blame my sever lack of internet in my room, the laptop dying on me on more than one occasion before finally giving up the ghost last week and having a ridiculous amount of essays to write within a matter of weeks. But that does ultimately mean a lovely shiny new laptop when I return home :D
So let’s start with what has been missed over the past month since I last updated.
Firstly I’ve managed to have 2 visitors this year, the first being my boyfriend and the second a rather spur of the moment visit from my best friend. Both of the visits were lovely we visited Frankfurt and wandered round the old streets of Marburg. I really didn’t want either of them to go, but it did mean that I was home sooner and that I guess was the best thing to know.
So let’s think of the events that have been on in the past month
Firstly the very small town I live in had a sort of 3 day musical event where they celebrated Marburg and everything Marburgish (that’s a word I’m sure). 3Tage Marburg basically meant beer and Apfelweine stalls and Rost Bratwurst and Crêpe vendors throughout the city. We went to the opening night and sat around listening to the music whilst having a very Hessisch Licher Beer, it really was a lovely evening and such a good way to welcome my
friend to Marburg.
On the 9th July we headed up to Frankfurt to watch the Women’s World cup quarter final games that were being shown on 4 big screens by the river in Frankfurt. They really went all out for the World cup over here, and I got the feeling that if it was in the UK there really would have been such a big fuss about it. We turned up early to get a good spot and as we were there so early we were able to get lots of free football based things, including a picnic blanket!
So in between all these lovely visits and days out I had 1 10-15 page essay and one 20-25 page essay (I gave up on the 2 in German), a presentation and an exam to prepare. Now those essays were hard! Firstly I have never written an essay based on the pages, at home it’s always a word count and that still makes far more sense to me than pages and I have never written an essay over 5 pages, so 10 was a struggle let alone 20! But I managed to write them both in about a week and a half and even managed to get a passing grade on them both. That = a very happy me :)
The presentation I also had to prepare was pretty easy, being in a group with 2 other Germans especially one who knew exactly how they wanted the presentation to go made my job far easier. The exam however, not so easy. Having to learn things for lectures that I really didn’t understand was hard, so in the end I just read a text book that I had brought from home and hoped that would help. I guess it did, I mean I managed to pass so that’s what matters right?
So that’s it I’m done with university here in Germany forever, I have enjoyed it but some of the work they expect you to do even when they know you’re a non native speaker can be pretty harsh and the I’m ERASMUS be nice to me card really doesn’t work with some lecturers who just can’t grasp that there is a significant difference between you and the other German students in the class.
But I have really enjoyed my time here and I know I will miss it, especially when I’m back at uni at home and the pressure of graduating with a good degree is piling up.
