My poem is completed and ironically enough, I'm not happy with my last line. I hope we get to mine in class today so I can get feedback on other endings. Maybe I'll post here sometime.

I also have my first German test today and for some reason I am having a hard time preparing for this one. The teacher's style is slightly different from any I have been accustomed to before. She speaks almost entirely in German and this is Introductory German. No one in the class has ever had German before. I at least have had two years in high school but that has been 30+ years ago!!

I can remember phrases and words but it is the sentences that are giving me the most problems. She speaks so fast and when we tell her to slow down, she says she is speaking slow for us:) I still enjoy the class. We are all able to laugh at ourselves. Our southern accent speaking those German words are just too funny.

I got so antsy trying to get it in my brain, I finally put it down and went out to the beach. Now we're talking. I just stared at that ocean for an hour and breathed in that salt water and cleared out my fuzzy brain and I was good to go!

Then I came home and put on my pjs looked at my German book and told myself, 'i'll study in the morning.'

Was studierst du? Ich studiere Deutsch. Guten Tag!

At least all the teachers give plenty of extra credit that I will plan on taking advantage of.