Good Bye Deutsch Course

Yep, I've quit the Deutsch course. Not that now I'm already good enough in the language but it's the choice I made to give priority to some other things in terms of financial and time. No, the fee isn't expensive. Since January, Lukas only asked me to pay 100 Euro a month despite the full amount of 230 Euro. But with the travelling and miscellaneous costs, it is quite a substantial amount. And if we want to go for vacation, there would be no extra money for that purpose.

Anyhow, after 4 months in the course, at least now I can speak little Deutsch, understand and read better. Before coming to Germany, I didn't even know one single word in Deutsch, not even the simple 'Danke' or 'Bitte'. I didn't even bother to know because I thought I can survive in English!

But now when I go shopping, I can at least communicate with the sales girl or the cashier. The other day, I was paying the groceries at this Asia Shop and I had noticed the cashier had keyed in the wrong price for one of the items. Thank God I managed to tell her that she was wrong and she understood perfectly. At the butcher shop, now I can tell the butchery how many kilos meat/chicken I want to buy and how I want my meat to be cut. It is all the simple sentences but play important roles in my daily life.

The other day, I was waiting for the train to go home, a lady greeted me and we started having a conversation in Deutsch. Though I struggled to form the sentences, the lady said for someone who had just learnt Deutsch in 4 months time, I'm quite good. Hehehe...the comment really made me happy.

For that I thank Lukas for his great teaching skills. He's really a good teacher not only in his teaching skills but for his concern and kindness. I don't know if I go to another language institute, I would get the same discount I got here. I don't know if I can see again a teacher who would make a mug of hot tea for his sick student, or keep a box of paracetamol and offer them to the students who in needs. Or make sure that the pantry is always loaded with drinks and snacks (we only pay 1 Euro a month for Kaffee Geld but I doubt it covers all the various kind of tea, coffee, biscuits, bla...bla...).

I think I'm going to miss this course (except for those who annoy me!). I already made friend with several people in the class and I enjoyed being in their company. Especially with Zainab, a Jordanian lady who gave me a lot of cooking tips and recently gave me several hand-down children books. She even said since she's going back to Jordan next month, she would buy some iqra' books for my twins ( as I told her I'm planning to teach my kids to read Quran soon).

Well, hopefully I'm not going to forget what I have learnt in this course.

Me with Zainab, Nezahet and Leyla