as you may or may not know, i dropped out of school in 1998 and started an apprenticeship as a software engineer. that means that i never finished my secondary education.
three years ago, when i was doing my alternative civilian service, i started evening school to catch up. this particular evening school is divided in four courses: German, English, Math and either information technology or business studies. each course lasts for about a year and then you have an exam. if i manage to pass all four courses i get my Matura.
stupid enough, i started with math because i thought “what the hell, i’ll start with the hardest one to get it over with”. i did get it over with (but that’s a totally different story :). only by then i lost my motivation to do the other courses. plus, i had a shitload of work to do and with all the trainings outside of Carinthia i had to travel a lot. and i guess you could insert a few other excuses as well. there really are some, but i’ll spare you details.
however, now i thought i just had to finish this and signed up for German and English in the beginning of march. two to three days a week i’ll sit there after work until 10pm. so far it’s quite ok and not as boring as math was, that’s something.
in German, we’re going to read a few books:
- Bernhard Schlink – Der Vorleser
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Die Physiker
- Johann Wolfgang Göthe – Faust I
- Lessing – Nathan der Weise
- Franz Kafka – Die Verwandlung
- Anton Schnitzler – Anatol
- Max Frisch – Andorra
- Peter Turrini – Rozznjogd
first task, reading “der vorleser“* from “bernhard schlink”:
so while i’m at home and really should read this and do my homework, i am taking pictures of the book and blog about it.
i’m really off for a good start.
* if you follow the link to wikipedia: please don’t spoil anything for me ;)
Tags: berufsreifeprüfung, brp, german, homework, learning, matura, school, wifi
toi, toi, toi und viel viel motiviation!!!
thx :)
Why not going for the exam in english and IT directly without the course?
If you fail you have 3 other tries. IT is all about Office and some simple Visual Basic for Application scripts. English afaik is all about communication and some basic USA know how (how is the president elected a.s.o).You would save a lot of time and some hard earned bugs.
Have fun with the reader. The only thing I can remember is that this book is all about getting late with an older women ;)
i wanted to, but as far as i have found out 3 years ago this isn’t possible. i also asked this year but that didn’t change. you have to do the course and only if you attend 75% of it you are allowed to take the exam. sucks, but hey… i guess i can still learn a thing or two :)
the reader: yeah i already figured out it’s about getting laid, we read a few pages in class and have to read the rest ourselves.
which school?
wifi