Work and a Dinner With Friends

Today, my tasks in the office included the Tandem program and updating information for a classroom handout. Alas, it was a much less exciting day than my Wasen experience last night!

I paired and sent out the email to four pairs Tandem partners - I am excited to provide this connection between students and hope that everything goes well with the pairings.

My task that took about an hour of my afternoon was updating a handout that Herr Veit created for one of his classes. It was a handout about the auto industry in Germany and its importance within the country. I had to use the bibliography of the original handout to check each source and see if there were new figures to update the information that the handout contains. It was like a scavenger hunt to try to piece together the source with the information, but in the end, I think I figured everything out. I also included in my email of up-to-date information some of the charts that I found interesting that showed the information. I find I am a visual learner and know that charts would help me to understand.

Tonight was a relaxing night. I ate dinner with Amy, Eric, and Ben. We made burgers, sliced potatoes, and fried zucchini - what a feast! At least by college student standards. Chris ended up joining us later with his own food.

It seemed like everyone was trying to avoid doing homework last night - Julia and Joe joined us after we were done eating. We ended the night with some tea, so very British, and that was that!