Attending Talk

Last Friday, my Deutschcourse's institute had arranged for us to attend a talk in Ruesselheim's Rathaus (similar to Pejabat Daerah in Malaysia). The talk was held to provide information to the foreigners who live in Ruesselsheim, on the benefits provided by the governmet for the foreigners, the rules, so and so...

Photograpy session before moving to Rathaus

I was allowed to bring my twins along and so did some other mothers. At first I wanted to leave them at the nursery because I didn't think they would sit quietly during the talk. But since there were two mothers taking their kids along, it would be difficult to reason with the twins why I was not taking them too.

The kids who joined the talk: Nabihah, Nabilah, Kimi and Naomi

My coursemates waiting for the talk to begin

Inside the conference room

It was good to get the opportunity to listen to this talk. Although it was difficult to grab all the info (as it was presented in Deutsch), but I could understand a little bit. Here in Germany, a foreigner who wish to stay in a long period of time or permanently, is encouraged to learn Deutsch and the Bundesamt (Federal Office) will pay half of the amount for the Deutsch course fee. Anyway, since I'm here just for two years, I'm not entitled for this benefit.

I didn't manage to stay until the talk finished. After 30 minutes in the talk, the twins started being restless. And I was warned that, once the kids made noise, I need to go out from the conference room. So I left.

Lukas had given an assignment prior to this talk. We should be able to do it after listening to the talk. Guess I could be given an excuse for this!