The new classes began on the 3rd of September. That also happened to be my birthday. What a lovely way to celebrate!
There are much less people on the course this year, and almost everyone will be continuing to study in Aachen or another german city for a semester or longer (as part of ERASMUS etc). There are a lot of French here! There were none last month.
The course seemed to have given up using the language grading system for classes (for example, I was in M2 which is basically middle level). Instead we have groups - gruppe 1, gruppe 2 and so on up to gruppe 5. I was placed into gruppe 4 even though the course directer said she would put me into Oberstufe, but today I switched from Gruppe 4 into Gruppe 5, which is much more of my level and similar to university now (reading texts, listening exercises etc).
There are a few more people that have stayed from the first month into this one than I had originally thought! It helps a lot to already know some people, so I don't have to completely have a new circle of friends/acquaintances.
So far the course is going well, there are no problems. I am going on one of the excursions offered for this month, as the other two are the same as in last month. On Friday morning I will be leaving (with a surprisingly small group of students) to travel to Berlin by bus. I think the journey is about 10 hours, so it seems further from Aachen than Paris! I do not yet know what the course is planned to offer in terms of tours or activities for Berlin, but we will be there a few days so it should be a good time. I am looking forward to it, I've not been in Berlin before!
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