First Week of Language Class: Recap

The first week of language class is over and it is finally weekend!
Time for a quick recap! Language class is good but of course really intensive. Think twice before taking it, because you won't have a lot of free time during the week. I dreaded to receive more homework than the other days of the week today but fortunately it is the same as always.
Language class is four hours every day and you have to come to class prepared every time. You have to talk a lot so the teachers will notice when you are lazy...During class time you practice grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and listening and speaking in general. Homework includes a written essay every day (which is a pain because it takes quite long...). All in all it takes me around two hours and thirty minutes to do all the homework tasks each day. The worst thing is that we have to learn all the dialogues which are in the book by heart. In the morning a few people are picked and have to stand in front of the class and recite the texts. I kind of disagree with this teaching method and would rather spend my time differently...So every evening I desperately try to cram the dialogue into my mind...Since I don't want to do it, it is really difficult for me to memorize anything!
I also have to go to graduate school classes twice a week which makes my schedule really busy!
But everything would be ok if I didn't have to get up so early every morning. I'm not a morning person so I'm quite grumpy in the morning :P poor classmates...I hope they learn soon not to talk to me before I had my first coffee ;)
I'm quite friendly with some people in my class now. I changed my seat and am now sitting with some nice guys. Next to me is one Chinese girl who doesn't speak English so we have to communicate in Korean which is quite funny! She is also always tired and hungry so we feel connected :) today she gave me a chocopie when I said I didn't have breakfast...you know, giving me food is the best way to make friends with me :)
There is also a funny Chinese guy sitting close to me and we joke around a lot. I guess we are the class-clowns :) His name is Wei-Wei but I call him why-why because it took him more than two days to memorize my name ;)

Today, like every Friday from now on, I met my old "Sprachzwilling" from Bayreuth and we started language tutoring again. We will always have one German hour and one Korean hour. It's really exhausting to speak only Korean for one whole hour but I hope it will become less tiring soon.

I have lots of plans for the next couple of days (including a meet-up with a Korean friend from 4 years ago, visiting the English-language debating club and going for membership training next weekend with the global student union), so I hope I will have more interesting blog material than just my language class.