Exam Season..

Exam Season has just finished here in Germany. It has been a long time coming for the students, who by the end really just wanted to sit their Exam.

Pre-exam season here is strange. Teachers are asking the students what they want to do. We would never have this in England, we would be told that we had to learn Grammar for the 200th time, and revise topics and stuff..

Im absolutely certain that one class I had, was helped by my idea of forced revision...  We watched a movie! :P

Emperor's New Groove!


I was invited to go and see the Exam questions during the exam. This confused me from the off, because teachers are not allowed in out exams in the UK. Here, there are no exam invigilators, the teacher do it. So I guess it must be ok for me!

The English questions were ok. out of the 3, I would have chosen the second set, but there were some that chose other ones too! (great for me, who has to mark some of them - its not as boring! :P)

I walked into the exam, and was baffled totally...

The exams are about 4 hours long- that may be crucial, before we get started!

Each student has their own table.

They all bring their own entire picnic of goodies and things to eat and drink. Cakes, Sweets, Fruit, Coke, Water.. everything.They just sit, do the exam and munch away! IN the UK, we have to take the label off the bottle of water we are allowed!!  Here, they just eat!

Second, they are very allowed to get up and strut around the room.  They have access to information which is at the front, so they are up, and off to go and have a look!   We would be killed for this!

AND - they can go to the toilet alone!  we have some creepy 70 year old guy follow us! but these guys here just get up and they are off!!!   (so, arrange to meet people! its aparantly, very easy! :P)


Its now Easter Holidays. 2 friends are heading to Germany right now. One comes today and will be here for a fair while, and the other comes on the 4th and is visiting me for a few days! :D   I plan to see the other one at some point in May: He is living in Koblenz!

Right. I think its best to do a better one later, when I have more to say!
After Easter! :D