Wednesday, August 13, 2008

German gatherings

Heute gab es ein schoenes Wetter; waerme Sonne und kuehle Wind (There was a beautiful weather today; warm sun and cool wind). Today there was supposed to be a praktikant meetup whereby all the IA students in Bosch will meet up at Biergarten in Stuttgart near the main station. Then when I arrived there, I realised something - I didn't know any other students doing IA so I couldn't even recognise any tables there had a hint that they were actually from Bosch and were there to meet up! Sigh, the place I work at is kinda detached from the main compound so I guess I will never know any other praktikants. Luckily during the day, a masters student in my department came to me and invited me to this masters students gathering and its like they've all done Masters at Bosch and are currently working for the company. It was totally a german thing, no other races nor people from other countries. Everyone of them was like speaking damn fast, I totally couldn't catch anything at all. They must like phrase it damn simply for me, so paiseh to keep asking them what they wanted to say. Though uh ok.. I could catch 10 - 20% of what they are saying but... zz... cant say anything ya noe. I wasn't taught to communicate during a social function where all of them arn't students anymore. Yes all NUS german lesson teaches is mainly talking with other students. They were like talking about cars, what they work as, job scopes, talking cok; YES... how to talk cok in german... that's the thing I want to learn! LOL. Then again, it was a great experience, even though I didn't know what they were saying most of the time but at least I get to train my ears to listening to german.
Once again I must say, they have great places to chillax n talk cok over glasses of beers, HA.

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