help me with my sons german please - forms of zeichnen??

[debinaustria]

is this right or not
Ich zeichnete
Du zeichnetest
sie zeichnetet
Wir zeichnen

thanks

Why did she scream at you SSandy?

I think it's your vibes really admylin. We do have to watch it. Speaking German is part of who they are, so I would try to speak very postively about the language. The other day I said to dd, I hoped we could read together in German again over the Christmas holiday, that I missed it (big fibber emoticon) so much but that we just hadn't had the time anymore alongside English and the long school day.

She was SO pleased.

I find it really very very sad how unhappy you all are in Germany. I wish there was something I could say/suggest, but having lived here now for nearly all my adult life I don't really know what goes on in German schools.

(Btw if you did have to do zeichnen in Imperfekt it would be sie zeichnete, not zeichnetet.)

He admylin. I said "hello" and he said "Dies ist eine Ganztagsschule und es gibt Schulpflicht und sie sind zu früh). I picked her up maybe 10 minutes before they have to be picked up which in fact a lot of people do (actually one of our longest days in fact).

I just hate people screaming at me, especially when dd is there. I never get used to this kind of thing, it's like someone slamming a fist in your face out of the blue and it knocks me out for a week or so. I didn't say a thing but I tried to stay very calm and just smiled and walked past so as not to have dd get too upset.

I must admit I am really nowadays at how much German people make other people's business their own, and get quite rude about it. I didn't notice it so much when i was living there myself, but now it really p*es my off.

I know the feeling - I always think of something good to say when it's too late aswell. Nowadays I just try to think something like 'frustrated ba**ard' when someone is so stroppy. Those sort of Begegnungen happen about once a month.

Blimey, have to go and pick the dc up, that's my does of MN for the day.

Emanka, sorry for all our moaning on here. Theer are some really nice Germans and I quite like living in Berlin (if only I was 10 years younger and single... I could have a great time!

You know yourself emkana how difficult it can be living overseas when you have dc to worry about. I think that's a problem you face the world over

well to be honest with you I'm still very upset about it and I don't understand the whole thing but there you go, so is life. I know I am very fragile these days so I don't get in any kind of an argument. I would hate to do it in front of dd anyway, she's the kind that hears leaves falling from trees, very sensitive dc.

I admit my skin is thicker these days and I do have to remind the boys that there are grumpy idiots the world over...

I did go to school with a great dragging feeling in the pit of my stomach this morning though, thinking oh please don't let me encounter him! I know I should just toughen up and get a grip. Really hate that kind of thing though, makes me want to slink into a cave and hide from life. Well don't let me drag you all down.

I see I will have to make an effort to get on top of the German now, so will add that to my list of things I should be doing and tape it on top of my computer screen otherwise nothing will ever get done!

Reading this again today it seems utterly pathetic the things that floor me when I think about mothers with REAL problems like terminally ill dc and so on. I never stopped to think when I was pregnant that being a mother would mean permanent worrying about things. I was just panicking about getting through the birth and not looking beyond that at all

I am wondering really if getting them into gymnasium is the end of your worries. Yesterday walking out the school gates I couldn't help overhearing two parents behind me speaking very loudly about the bilingual gymnasium and how tough it is and turning up late 3 x means you get a grade 5 and so on. Perhaps if they were all in Gymnasium our real problems would just be STARTING

You bet it does. My friend here has 5 dc, the first 3 are 18,19 and 21 years old and she did everything for them, judo lessons, music lessons, Gymnasium, Abitur and apart from the dd who after abi went to a dance ausbildung as she wants to be a dancer (modern) the other 2 are total drop outs and there is nothing she can do about it. One takes drugs and sleeps all morning, the other sits at his computer all day and has a very strange girlfriend who never speaks infront of anyone - he met her on the internet. Apart from putting them out, there is nothing she can do. Her situation really worries me because I see the way she does things with her 2 smaller dc is good. Soemwhere along the line she lost it with the older boys.

OMG boyfriends! Shudder...

I wake up at 5 most mornings now and lay there wondering how on earth to sort out the schooling. Can you believe I was about to take a pile of old (read too small) clothing to the Red Cross Bin and I thought , oh well for the hell of it, I'll try on the size 8 jeans. And I got them on. Now this is thanks (?) to the schooling here I can tell you that. I worry so much the weight is just dropping off. Probably looking all haggard with it (and the GREY hair FGS)

I wonder if it was too much pressure on those boys growing up. (Horrible thought). I have a young Russian friend who was at a private boarding school in Denmark and she says from the dc in her class, about half have become very successful career people the other half have become total drop-outs, including drug addicts and, sadly, 2 suicides.

My point being (not well expressed) there was no middle-ground. The pressure on them resulted either in very focused career-oriented living or giving up entirely

Wow, there you go - one positive thing has come of it, size 8 that's what I was before the dc. I have my Levi 501 from those days in my cupboard but there is no way I'd fit into them. Somehow my hips will never get smaller than a 14 I think. A good round of that sickness bug would do me good in that aspect!

News from school: according to a dad from ds's class, their teacher will not be their teacher as of next school year. If we are still here atleast they might get a better teacher.

YAH!!!! Next one has to be better surely

Ideally, I'll be sending them of fin the yellow school bus in a nice suburb of Dallas or failing that dh reckons his chances are good for a job in Birmingham (oh well who needs sunshine!) in which case I might just homeschool if the nearest primary is not up to scratch.

Mensch, Stollenzeit, sending you some positive vibes from jolly Blighty!

Germany is getting you down?

As much as I love my Germans I do sometimes find
their melancholy and Weltschmerz too much.

Sei stark und pass mal auf dich auf

Think I'm competing quite well in the melancholy and Weltschmerz stakes! I must come across like a manic depressive at times. Sorry folks.

So anyone know any good German jokes? Let's hear them.

OK I did a google and found this one:

In einer Schule wird Schaetzen durchgenommen. Der Lehrer fragt Phillip: "Wie hoch ist unsere Schule?" ja so ungefaehr 1,35 m. Der Lehrer sagt:" das ist doch nie richtig. Das kann doch nie stimmen." "doch doch" sagt Phillip: "Ich bin 1,50 m und die Schule steht mir bis zum Hals" da sagt der Lehrer das darf man doch nicht sagen und er geht mit ihm zum Direktor. Der Direktor sagt: "Ok ich gebe dir noch eine Chance". Wie alt schaetzt du mich. Phillip laeuft um ihn herum und sagt: "Sie sind so 44 Jahre alt. Das ist richtig, woher weist du das?".Tja sagt Phillip:" Bei uns in der Strasse wohnt ein 22 Jaehriger und der ist ein halber Depp"

Na geht doch!

You might have seen this before:

Was sitzt auf einem Baum und schreit "Aha"? - Ein Uhu mit Sprachfehler.

I should just link to the page but one more:

Was sagt ein Krokodil, nachdem es einen Clown aufgefressen hat? - "Schmeckt irgendwie komisch."