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Classes have officially begun just as the trees and bushes are blooming all over T\u00fcbingen! This semester I\u2019m taking 5 classes, two Advanced English Proseminare<\/em> and three Deutsch als Fremdsprache Kurse<\/em> at level B2. My DaF courses (Franz Kafka: Kurzprosa, Migrations-Literatur, und Grammatik und Konversation) have not yet begun, and I anticipate they\u2019ll have more busy work\/smaller projects. While this is one more course than I would typically take at Mount Holyoke, the courses only meet once a week, allowing for much more unstructured time to finish work or picnic outside with friends.<\/p>\n

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Upon entering \u201cHomosexuality and Homophobia in Gothic Fiction,\u201d the class appeared eerily similar to the every other English seminar I\u2019ve taken. Students greeted each other, pulled out their notebooks and chatted while we waited for the lecturer to arrive. Apart from the fact that I was introducing myself to my neighbor in German, it could have been an ordinary interaction on the first day of a course at Mount Holyoke. The structure of the first class was also familiar; we went over the syllabus and then did a quick group close reading, on a text that none of us had prepared beforehand. It definitely makes a difference that the course was a smaller sized seminar and ultimately in this situation it didn\u2019t matter that it was a large, coed research university versus my small historically women\u2019s liberal art\u2019s college.<\/p>\n

At over one month in, I\u2019m glad I\u2019m interacting with a few German students as well. Previously it was impressed on me that Germans general kept their class life and personal life separate, but I haven\u2019t found this to be the case so far. My presentation group and I formed quickly, despite the fact that I was an exchange student. Although I mostly speak English with my friends from STARTKurs, I\u2019ve really been trying to only speak German to others, at least when I first meet them.<\/p>\n

A number of small things about the education system have been surprising to me. To my horror, I discovered that my presentation partners had never heard of Google Docs!! This seems to belay a more intense focus on privacy in Germany, even among young people. I\u2019m used to this wariness from older people, but it was pretty strange to hear from my classmates!<\/p>\n

On a more general level, I feel like it\u2019s very difficult to tell what I have learned or become accustomed to in Germany, since my transition has been rather gradual. I\u2019m having a hard time separating myself from what I\u2019m experiencing in the moment, which has been helpful, but also lends itself less to reflection. It’s definitely true that things become routine quite quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Classes have officially begun just as the trees and bushes are blooming all over T\u00fcbingen! This semester I\u2019m taking 5 classes, two Advanced English Proseminare and three Deutsch als Fremdsprache Kurse at level B2. My DaF courses (Franz Kafka: Kurzprosa, Migrations-Literatur, und Grammatik und Konversation) have not yet begun, and I anticipate they\u2019ll have more … <\/p>\n

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