Das machte spass!
My friend Ashley had her last German class today. It was a 400 level class, in fact it was 499. Anyway, after Spanish she was telling me how her class was going to have a party and have pizza and play taboo, and she said: "You should come!"

So I did.

May I remind you that I can't speak a word of German?

Anyway, I showed up and they were all sitting on the floor playing taboo, and Ashley gestured that I should sit down next to her and watch the game. It was a lot of fun, and very similar to my first month or so in Sweden when I sat back and just watched and listened. Swedish and the three or so weeks with Sabine must have rubbed off on me, because I could understand the gist of what was going on and a surprising amount of random words.

After taboo we had pizza and watched German music videos. They decided that they needed to play some Swedish videos for me (Ashley had told them, at least from what I understood) that I spoke a little Swedish and Spanish and I guess since Swedish and German are more similar to German and Spanish, they latched on to the Swedish. They played Jag måste kyssa dig and Boten Anna randomly and then went back to German music videos.

Listening to the German was disorienting in a similar manner as listening to Italian is. At one point I turned to Ashley and spoke to her in Swedish ("Han är från Sverige" --when they started playing Boten Anna), whoops.

Towards the end of the final exam period, Ashley taught me how to say: "Danke Das machte spass" and then she told everyone that I wanted to say something, so I said it, and the class applauded. lol. It was fun :)

Anyway, with a mixture of German and Swedish in my head, I went off to my Speech final. FINALLY no more speech. It was such a boring class.