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Carol

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a student and English teacher in Germany. I teach in the adult education system at various different institutions and do some tutoring. At university I study English and history. I know it's strange that I study English in Germany, but the program's great and I'm learning so much- literature, linguistics, and how to teach English as a second language.
I also like to read, and I think I might be addicted to TV. One of the other things I enjoy is going to the movies, though I am finding less and less time for that.
I spend quality time enjoying the wines of this region or the Viez (an apple wine), and every Sunday I get together with friends to have a Viez and relax.
So that's my life, full of stress and fun, and if it were any different, it wouldn't be my life.

My Interests

Books of all kinds (well, mostly fiction), wine, TV (especially old episodes of Buffy!), movies, playing around with my limited knowledge of HTML.

I'd like to meet:

The inner-me. Just once. It'd be cool.

Music:


Alternative, Grunge, Punk sort of sums it up, though my taste runs to eclectic: Barenaked Ladies , Ben Folds , Dave Matthews Band , Green Day , Pink Floyd , Smashing Pumpkins , They Might Be Giants , Wir Sind Helden , Herbert Grönemeyer and many others.

Movies:

Existenz , Dark City , Sin City , the Quentin Tarantino films .

Television:


My first favorite TV show was Homicide, Life on the Street , then I got into watching Buffy and Angel .

Now I watch way too much TV, but things I've been enjoying recently are Lost, Supernatural, Dr. House, Monk, Psych, Heroes, Desperate Housewives, Bones, Prison Break and generally I'll watch almost any of the dubbed US series shown over here.

Books:

My favorite author is Neal Stephenson , my favorite books of his are Snow Crash and Diamond Age. Besides that, I read and enjoy everything that is well written.

Heroes:

Anybody with super powers!

My Blog

M.A.

It's finally official- I have my Magistra Artium as of  today. Well, technically as of the 16th but it arrived today in the mail. I am fairly happy with my grades. My thesis was a 2.0 (where one...
Posted by Carol on Fri, 30 May 2008 05:39:00 PST

Meine Entäuschung am Mittwoch

Mittwochs arbeite ich immer von neun bis zwölf in der Stadt. Nach der Arbeit, mache ich meine Erledigungen und gehe nach Hause, aber nicht vor ich mir einen Donut beim Backwerk kaufe. Backwerk, zumind...
Posted by Carol on Sat, 03 May 2008 04:38:00 PST

Round one is over!

So, my first round of exams, the ones for my master's degree, are done. Yesterday I sat the English exam. It didn't go as well as I hope, but it went okay. I got a 2.3 (where 1 is the highest grade). ...
Posted by Carol on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:34:00 PST

Please, let me stay healthy!

I’m in the final phase of my preparations for my exams- the oh my God I won’t get it all done in time and I’ll fail phase- and think I’m getting sick, which is really just icin...
Posted by Carol on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:50:00 PST

Easter weather and exams

I’m having a relaxing Good Friday at home, which is a holiday here, so there’s really not much I could do, planning on staying in my sweats all day, and getting some reading for my exams d...
Posted by Carol on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:27:00 PST

Taxes, aka Steuern

So, I'm trying to be fleißig (hard-working) today, and so far, it's working. I got up, did my stretches, cleaned my apartment, started the laundry and went to pick up my tax forms. Then I started in o...
Posted by Carol on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:10:00 PST

Socks

I lost a sock. In terms of size, not a big problem, but in terms of my sanity, it's driving me crazy. I lost it on Sunday. If I had lost it in the washing machine or in the dryer (here theoretical, si...
Posted by Carol on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:09:00 PST

Interview for my dream job!

So, the other day I ran into one of the women who teaches practical language courses in the English department in Trier and she mentioned an open position in Koblenz that will start on April 1st. Even...
Posted by Carol on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:25:00 PST

I can’t believe I wrote the whole thing...

So, it's done. I turned in my thesis today: all ninety pages, all in German, all three bound copies of it. Now, I'm nervous. First, I was stressed about getting it done. Now, I'm worried about the gr...
Posted by Carol on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:22:00 PST

Stress sucks

So, the good news is that I've finished my Christmas shopping, got my cards sent off, and have a few things left to do before my family comes on the 17th. The bad news is that I've come down with a c...
Posted by Carol on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:49:00 PST