The 4-week instensive class

The 4-week intensive language class is only available for the afternoon session. It is not until I reached here that I realised this is just another language school. I, for some reason, is the only one who know or have worked with a regional Goethe-Intitut personally before. There are 12 students in this class including me. The teacher is Sigrid Unterstab. As this course is taught entirely in deustch, all teachers seem to have an extra skill to be very animated and expressive in order to áct´out anything that we cannot understand. Unless it is absolutely necessary, you won´t hear a word of English from her. Anyway, I am surprise to find that without having to understand a single word of deustch, it is possible to learn from scratch. Knowing english is always an advantage. Reading, to me is getting easier but not listening. The same words that I can read and understand, can take me awhile to process when I hear it in a conversation. 4 weeks is definitely too short to have a proper conversational skill in deustch. But one thing that I find really good is that in the process of learning the language, we´re also learning about berlin and germany as well. That´s especially good for some one like me who doesn´t know much about europe. Before this, I will have problem pinpointing germany in europe and also the location of Berlin on the map. Similarly, Malaysia is pretty much unknown here. But there is one thing I can be proud of at least. On the second floor of Goethe-institut, there is a series of photos hung along the walls of the corridor. Those were the photos from the ´pass the picture´project initiated by Alex Moh some years back. That was a great project. I was not at all in photography at the time.

We have 2 students from Italy, 2 from Australia, 1 from Bangkok, 1 from New York, 1 from Dubai, 1 from Portugal, 1 from kazakhstan, and 1 from spain. All of them except me will be staying longer than 4 weeks here. I´m the only one here that really have not much objective being here. It is just so weird. I´ll try not to think about it. There are more stressful things back in KL waiting for me.

It is very tiring to study everyday. I spend about 2 hours on the internet before class. the class is from 1pm till 6pm. Most museums are closed by 6pm. I hope to spend more time going out shooting at night, if I can still find the energy.