Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Sleepless

It is the start of term so everything is incredibly busy. I guess I won't have anytime for deliberate German learning over the next two weeks but I do have to write maths questions for first year students this semester and am back going to German classes. I thought I was supposed to write the questions in German this time but today it was agreed that if it takes up too much of my time/stresses me out too much, K will translate them. Last night I hardly slept (I slept sometime between 6.30 and 7.49) because I was so worried about it. It turns out the one M hadn't proof read was almost totally correct (Germanwise, obviously (?) also mathswise). I was so close to tears in the meeting with my boss today, I really didn't want her to read it. The reason I find it so stressful is that everything has to be so correct and alot of the time, I just have no idea if I've phrased it right or not. Anywho, I'll continue to try to write the questions in German but if there is a particularly troublesome question, I'll send it to K in English and not spend a whole night worrying about it.    

I sent an email in German to the Hiwi's (students teaching the exercise clases) today. It was somehow terrorfying, even tho' it was only two sentences. I have no idea if it was correct. Perhaps someone will tell me, perhaps it doesn't matter.

Tonight, I think, as a treat I'll listen to English radio :). I think subjecting myself to German TV/Radio now would be a bad idea.

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