Hallo Alle!
Wow. I'm leaving on Friday. It seems so surreal, my mind can't accept that I'm actually leaving Germany.
My time here since being in Croatia has been pretty quiet. Just alot of practicing and getting ready for all of my 2 finals... hahaha. Seriously it's so funny, for my German Music History class, our teacher said last week, "Well I guess next week is the last class, so we'll watch a video. Don't forget to bring some delicious wine!" HAHAHA!! That is my final. Best EVER. Besides that I just have to get ready for my piano techniques exam (which is pretty easy) and the one I'm most nervous for: Harmony 4. I don't think it'll be too bad because my teacher is awesome and really relaxed, but I'm still nervous because we covered so much material. Hopefully it goes well!
Other than written exams, I just have to get ready and practice for the Abschlusskonzert, the final concert. But I'm not playing anything super duper tricky, so that'll be pretty chill as well.
Pretty chill basically describes this whole semester for me. That's one thing that I was hoping for in coming here, and that hope was definitely fulfilled. It was so nice to have so much free time just to relax, practice, think about life, grow closer to God, get to know people, explore and try new things, rather than really stressing about school. I really don't feel like I've been in school these past 4 months, just a couple classes. Even my classes were more of a cultural experience; obviously all of my teachers speak German as their first language, so I got to try to speak German with them sometimes, and sometimes they'd teach us phrases or words in German. We also got exposed to the German method of notation; they don't use sharps and flats like we do, like they won't say "B Flat". In Germany, B Flat is actually "Be" and B Natural is "Ha". I think. Something like that. But basically they just have different names for every semi-tone, much like what we do in chromatic solfege. Just something interesting ;).
I'm definitely getting pretty sad about leaving. I absolutely LOVE Germany. Always have. And now I've met so many awesome people, and got to really experience what living here is like. The food is AMAZING, as I've said many times, and I'm definitely really going to miss it. There's a European import store in Harvard Square, so I'll probably be there like every day getting cheese. Although one thing I definitely WON'T miss about living here is sharing a kitchen... it'll be so nice to be in my own kitchen and room again. I will miss the BEER AND WINE... especially this one particular micro-brewery that I've come to absolutely love. Going to miss that beer a lot. I will definitely also miss Fußball. Watching the EM (Europameisterschaft, aka. The Euros 2012) has been soooooo much fun. I've really got a chance to see some real German patriotism, which is a really rare thing and something to be cherished. Actually seeing people fly German flags is such a rarity, so seeing so many people with German flags on their cars and people painting the colours on their faces and buying Germany necklaces and Vuvuzelas is just so special. And seeing how they all get so excited about all the games is so awesome and exciting; if there's one thing you've all got to experience at least once, it's European Football. Even if you don't go to Germany, Football in Europe is SOO much fun.
Well that's about it for now. Look out for ONE LAST BLOG, coming to you live from Boston, MA. :)
Herzliche Grüße, die letzten von Deutschland!
<3 hannah ;)
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