my new accessory

Before you infer that I got some part-time work at Old Navy, I will jump right to telling you that this is my new nifty language learning accessory. A quick background: Jeff & I signed up for a beginners German class at the community college here last month — but it was cancelled last minute due to not having enough students…. Woah, wait a minute here. What???  A German class not having enough students in Howard County, MD?  I still can’t believe it.

Anyhow, we found a good second-best option (or maybe a better-yet option): we’re signed up online with Rosetta Stone — and we can go online at any time for 6 months to access any of their German lessons.  So far it’s been working out great - and they sent us this little microphone headset thing  so that the program can critique our pronunciation of our Ich and auf Wiedersehen’s.  So this is how my evenings are being spent as of late.

I suppose it may have been “fun” to be in Frau Kirsch’s community college class — but honestly I’m glad to be speaking into my little microphone for the time being.  There will be many years of real life critique ahead of us in Vienna, so I’ll avoid it till then….