Today was my first day of the four-week immersion training! It is a seven hour day all about German...I love it! Everything is entirely spoken auf Deutsch. There are 7 Americans here with Congress-Bundestag, and 3 students from South Korea. It will take the two teachers sometimes up to five minutes to explain something (absolutely no English), however they're fluent in both languages. After the course, we should "passably" be able to converse in German. After a year of living here, attending a "Gymnasium" (German word for college-bound high school) should gain fluency. Throughout the last twenty-six years of the Congress-Bundestag scholarship, nearly all recipients returned, testing at fluent levels.
