Misadventures in Teaching

Hallo! Ich heiße Pia! (Hello! My name is Pia) I'm currently studying to be an ELL teacher with a major in German and linguistics concentration. This is a side blog dedicated to anything related to German, English, linguistics, fighting educational inequities, & teaching. Also a place for me to chronicle the funny adventures of student teaching (they say kids do the darndest things, & trust me, they aren't kidding)!!! My own original posts, pictures, & stories are all tagged under #personal

[willkommen-in-germany]

Church and cemetary in Oeversee, Schleswig-Holstein. Northern Germany. Oeversee (Danish: Oversø) is situated about 10 km south of Flensburg near the Danish border. The area was the place of many battles between Germans and Danes. The village of Oeversee-Sankelmark witnessed a battle between Austrian and Danish forces in the Second Schleswig War of 1864. Between 1460 and 1864, nearby Flensburg was, after Copenhagen, the 2nd-largest port in the Kingdom of Denmark, but passed to the Kingdom of Prussia after this war in 1864 and has since belonged to Germany.There is still a considerable Danish community, some estimates put the percentage of Flensburgers who belong to it as high as 25%; others much lower. Before 1864, more than 70% belonged to what is now the minority, as can be seen even today by the great number of Danish surnames in the phone directory (Claussen, Jacobsen, Jensen, Petersen, etc.). The upper classes and the learned at that time mostly were German, and since 1864, the German language has prevailed in the town.

[willkommen-in-germany]

Hamburg, Northern Germany

[drxgonfly]

Castle in Fall (by Jovana Rikalo)

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

[serenatonin]

Me looking for articles to cite in my paper that I totally procrastinated on

[visitheworld]

The home of the dukes of Mecklenburg, Schwerin Castle, Germany (by hardyuno).

[alexkingstonflirt]

Teachers are a treasure!

[languagesarehardtolearn]

here’s your reminder that you should study vocab as much as grammar (if not more!). it can help you overcome a plateau! it improves your comprehension! learn some vocab!

[willkommen-in-germany]

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg. “Sitting plump at the foot of the Black Forest’s wooded slopes and vineyards, it’s a sunny, cheerful university town, its medieval Altstadt a story-book tableau of gabled town houses, cobblestone lanes and cafe-rimmed plazas. Party-loving students spice up the local nightlife. Blessed with 2000 hours of annual sunshine, this is Germany’s warmest city. While neighbouring hilltop villages are still shovelling snow, the trees in Freiburg are clouds of white blossom, and locals are already imbibing in canalside beer gardens. This eco-trailblazer has shrewdly tapped into that natural energy to generate nearly as much solar power as the whole of Britain, making it one of the country’s greenest cities.” - Lonely Planet Guide

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[thatswhywelovegermany]

Where do you go when you say you go home?

[willkommen-in-germany]

Typical street in East Berlin

[waluiqi]

today's agenda

screaming into the abyss (2 snack breaks)

[fishyandclintbarton]

Just incase you still weren't sure.

[rhymeswithbacon]

[convervative-blog]

stop saying that nothing bad is happening just because no one’s being murdered yet. that isn’t going to fly 30 years from now when we’re forced to look at the repercussions of what’s being done. rwers will literally say nothing bad is happening and these aren’t real concentration camps bc people are treated well. how the fuck do you know, are you the red cross? oh right the red cross won’t be able to get in after these fucking camps are transferred to the control of the US military, the nicest safest group of human beings on the fucking planet. yeah OK. the point is we know what’s going to happen we know where this is going, we’ve seen it time and time again in human history, this fucking orange wearing a toupee was 10 minutes away from literally starting a war, you really think he isn’t fine with the government letting kids die of fucking typhus in their shitty “detention centers” or what ever the fuck they’re calling this shit?

[willkommen-in-germany]

Timmendorfer Strand in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany is situated at the Ostsee (Baltic Sea), about 15 km northwest of Lübeck, and 20 km southeast of Eutin. It’s a popular destination for people from the region, including those from Hamburg.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

What the grad student says: I read this book.

What it really means: I read the introduction, conclusion, and the chapter that is related to what I am researching. I might read the rest if I have time.

[willkommen-in-germany]

Favorite German Words

Das Faultier = literally the “lazy animal”, as in sloth. :D 

Also used for humans in a similar sense as the English “lazybones” - someone who is lazy and slow and just likes to hang out and take it easy.

[land-of-birds-and-comics]

i’m so sad english has no word immediately equivalent to “bürzel” because it really improves the german duck experience

it basically means “bird butt” and i think it should be clear that phrases like “i’m gonna freeze my bird butt off” are vastly superior to, idk, “i’m gonna freeze my tailfeathers off”

[land-of-birds-and-comics]

i JUST thought of another cute german bird term but i’m less sure about whether it exists in english? SCHNÄBELN. means bird kisses.

unlike “bürzel”, it’s criminally underused in duck content. probably because bird kisses in general are criminally underused compared to anthropomorphised kisses. let them nuzzle their beaks together. let them.

[fatsoupy]

me: dress how you want!! gender is fake!!! nothing matters!!!!!!

trans person: i like gender tho

me: hell yeah i respect that!!!! i apologize and don’t mean to dismiss your identity with my optimistic nihilism!!!!!!!

[ebonyheartnet]

Good post OP

[aquarian-sunchild]

Denounce gender roles but respect gender identity.