Bits & pieces

[nishatalitha]

I am still in the middle of writing my post-Kapcon report (it looks like this year's is going to be quite wordy) and keep getting distracted by other reports and the discussion about next year's LARP... I'm up to fourth round, so am making progress.

Managed to twist my ankle at lunchtime today. I stepped on some uneven cobbles, not actively watching my footing, my ankle rolled and I went flying downhill. I'm not badly damaged, fortunately - grazed knee and palms, sore ankle, but I'm wondering what the bruising will end up like, since I actually managed to ice it promptly and put it up. It didn't walk off, which is unusual for that level of rolling for me. Oh well.

I'm seriously considering taking German night-classes this year in preparation for travelling. The ones I'm looking at are at Wellington High on Tuesday evenings. Has anyone heard anything about them, or have others that they would recommend?

Due to various reasons (three-quarters of them my own fault) I didn't get to run The Millers' Children at Kapcon. It's a four player game - are there four people out there who would be interested in playing it once so I've run tabletop at least once? This weekend won't work, but the following would probably be fine. Let me know if you're interested or if you know of someone who might be. A suitable time can then be worked out.

It's a Little Fears game. In the Little Fears world, all the supersititions, all the monsters, everything you've heard of from fairytales and folktales, all this is true. Black cats are unlucky. Breaking a mirror will gain you seven years bad luck. If you say that you wish the goblins will take your siblings away three times... well, that will happen, too. Your mother, Mrs Miller, has gone out for the evening and you have a friend around to stay overnight for your sister's birthday. It's all fine - nothing will happen, right?

Comments

[clockworkflight.livejournal.com]

I've heard better things about the CEED classes at Vic, but I think a lot depends on the tutor and I don't know about German specifically.

...are you an absolute beginner?

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Depends if you count the six weeks I did German for in third form? I do have School C French and level 200 Classical Greek, so I'm not an absolute beginner in terms of languages.

The night school thing is important - I don't think I'll be able to justify a language as work-related.

[clockworkflight.livejournal.com]

CEED is the continuing education part - I'm pretty sure they're all evening classes (though I think they tend more to, say, 5:30 than actual night school).

...I was vaguely toying with the idea of doing it with you, because I keep meaning to refresh mine, but I don't think we're at the same level, and frankly I don't realistically have the time or money.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Five thirty is totally late enough for night school for me.


Maybe next year, if I did a higher level course at the beginning of next year?

But yes, totally different levels.

[clockworkflight.livejournal.com]

This seems to be the only one atm.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link - I'd only googled to get an idea of what was around. Unfortunately, that's on Thursdays and I already have stuff on Thursdays.

The tutor is the tutor for the travelling-German course through Wellington High...

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

For German classes, have you checked out the Goethe Institut? I gather it's the equivalent of the Alliance Francaise, i.e. funded by the German government to promote German culture & language. Sylvia might be the person to ask - she used to work there.

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

I went to the Goethe Institute for some one on one tutoring for a little while, a bit of a year ago. They were nice enough, although the classes didn't work hugely well because I was trying to pick up a working reading knowledge of academic German, and the tutor I got was used to teaching conversational German to people who didn't have any grammar or related languages (like Latin or ME), so we never quite got to the right speed in the class.

[anarchangel23.livejournal.com]

Did you find a good solution for this in the end? I did a read for academics course a few years ago and I quite liked the book we used.

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

Not really. I ended up getting by with a dictionary and some guess work for the articles I needed for my project. They helped with the basic structure of the language, though.