Inspirations

So I haven't posted anything in awhile, and that is because I haven't done too much.  But I am changing that, I think.
So first of all, I dished up the dough to purchase Rosetta Stone, which is a lot of dough.  It may bite me a bit later, when I need to buy textbooks and stuff, but I figured it was important enough for me to learn it.  I also figure that if I spend a substantial amount of money on it I will actually learn it, instead of putting it by the wayside.  I often forgot to or didn't feel like doing the lessons that I had been, but I do plan on doing them along with Rosetta Stone because Stone doesn't really teach grammars all that much, and that can be important.

Now, here at camp I won't really be able to do Rosetta Stone or anything else much, but I have found some inspirations to still think about it and practice what I do know.  I found out that a coworker lived in Germany this past year and also that my supervisor lived in Germany for a year awhile ago.  This makes me excited, partly because the guy that just got back from Germany knows quite a bit.  So I am going to try to talk some with him.  So hopefully I can get back on track with this Deutsch thing!

Difficulties

So, turns out it is really hard to learn another language on your own.  I'm all like, "This takes so much time!" And sure enough, it does.  And then when you finally sit down to work again and the website is down, I'm all like, "Dang it!" And sure enough, dang it.
But I mean, I knew it was going to be this hard, it would just be nicer if it wasn't.  It would also be nicer if I had a class, or something like that, but I don't.  This is what I have decided to do and so I need to do it.  But still, hopefully I can find another way of making myself sit down and work on it.  I just needeth more discipline.  So, I guess I will have to.  It would also be nice to have a quieter place to do it, where people aren't loud.  But I could remove myself from all these loud people.  Again, I needeth more discipline.   Yupyypuop.

Ich lerne deutsch aber es ist schwer.

Much love,
                       Me.

Movin' Along

I just moved back to college (in this case, the word "just" means four days ago) and am getting settled into my routine.  After taking a couple weeks off of my German lessons for Christmas it is super hard to get back into.  Plus I am looking to find a job which takes up a lot of my mind right now.  But I again emailed my German correspondent dude.  It is amazing how difficult it is to write a paragraph that is only 4 sentences long when you don't know hardly any words in German.  So I sat down with my girlfriend (who has four years of German under her belt), Google translate, and dict.leo.org (a good online dictionary she showed me).  After stumbling around for about an hour, I finished a paragraph!!  Oh my, how far I have to go.  But I am learning so much about sentence structure and new words from emailing this guy, it is totally worth it!
FYI, the website that I am learning German from is www.dw.de.  If you go to this website then you click on the "Learn German" link in the blue bar, then click on level A1 (or whichever level you feel you are), click on the "Deutsch Interaktiv" link, make a free(!) account, and off you go.  The website seems spectacular to me.  They have all sorts of grammar rules that you can look at and a dictionary as well as lessons for you to do on your own.  They also have a few downloadable work-sheets and practice schedules for you to print out and do on your own.  It is extremely awesome for a free utility.  So if you want to do that, do it.  I am going to bed.
Guten nacht.

Deutsch ist sehr wichtig.

German Correspondance

So there is this neat website called mylanguageexchange.com and so I went to it.  At this website they give you an opportunity to communicate with someone that speaks the language that you are trying to learn if they are trying to learn your language.  I heard from a dude in Germany yesterday and so we started an emailing thing where I get to practice my German and he gets to practice his English.  I'm pretty excited about this and it is making my use of German to feel more real, using it with an actual native speaker.  Hopefully this continues and is beneficial to both of us! 

In other news, this is sorta German related, seeing as Boateng is German, but the news on him from yesterday is pretty crazy.  Got mad at some racist fans and walked off the pitch, along with the rest of his team (AC Milan) and the opposing team, ending the game.  Woah.

Some Background

Yeah, so, umm.  Here we are.  It is Friday, January 4th, 2013, I am sitting here listening to MyChildren MyBride and this new year is starting with a life that is unbeknownst to me.  I don't know if that word is used correctly, but oh well, I'm learning German.
I am currently 20 years old.  I am also currently a male.  I have been all my life, and plan on continuing in this gender role.  So yeah, I'm never going to be a girl.  My home is in Michigan, I went to a junior college in Kansas for two years and am attending college in Virginia now.  I have worked in Colorado, and my girlfriend is from Illinois.  I have traveled America, now I want to travel Europe.
So yeah, here is the deal.  I have this desire, this "call on my heart" if you will, that is drawing me towards Germany.
I had the opportunity to tour Europe with my college choir this past summer, so I have visited Germany (which explains the background picture of this blog) and it was awesome!  My favorite country was Switzerland since we stayed in Wengen, but I just haven't shaken the feeling that Germany has left on me.  The feeling has been strong enough that I am now striving to accomplish this.  I have a few reasons that are the cause of this feeling, which will probably be explained as I go on with these posts.  I don't want to divulge too much here, in case it changes, because nothing is set in stone at all.  Not even close.  So it is an adventure!!

There isn't much background that needs to be said here, except that I am just starting to learn German, so this won't happen for a few years.  However, I am going to use this blog to try and document my journey through learning the beautiful German language, trying to find out how to go about finding places to live, and hopefully one day moving or abandoning this.  I am praying for God's leading through it all, and here it is.  So yes.  This is my background, and now that you know it, we all know it.

Spreche Sie Deutsch?  Nein.

If you want to learn more about me and my uninteresting life, here is my normal blog, which I don't keep up too regularly, but I try to.

Guten Tag.