German weather and German dialects
About a month ago in my region we had Winter Ferien, basically winter break. It’s a little strange because it seems that we just had Christmas vacation, but since school goes until July we have more breaks. The next one isn’t until Easter, and then we have two weeks off for that. Spring break consists of just one day, and it’s the last break before summer vacation in July.
a typical snowy winter
The weather here has been ridiculous, with pretty much constant snow since the week before Christmas. It is cloudy almost every day, so the sun hardly ever shines. It is quite an extreme compared to Oklahoma where the sun always shines. Awhile ago, some alarms started going off in my city and my first thought was TORNADO! I ran into my host sister’s room and was kind of freaking out because everyone was just sitting around. She said it was just a winter storm bell, evidently we were having a blizzard and the roads were not safe. Ha, not tornadoes in Germany…duh.
Beverley from the AYUSA San Francisco office came to visit me and my family. I hope she enjoyed her time here in Germany. It was a little strange for me to talk to an American and not have to worry about using slang or anything like that. It was actually a little difficult for me to speak without interjecting German words like und (and), aber (but)…stuff like that. I had to think a little bit more. I can’t even imagine what it will be like in July! Then we all went to Potsdam and met up with the other exchange kids in the Berlin area. I was good friends with one of them when I was in Berlin. It was good to see him again. He speaks Berlinerish…the dialect of Berlin. The other one that was there speaks very good German, but he has been here longer than us. Even though his German was good, he still had a strong accent, which I found amusing to hear. I must sound that way to my friends.
I can definitely identify different German accents and dialects now. I would say that is progress.
