{"id":216,"date":"2014-09-17T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/?p=216"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:43:16","slug":"wow-gls-schule-in-berlin-really-just-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wow-gls-schule-in-berlin-really-just-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! GLS Schule in Berlin &#8211; really, just wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Krajnik Logo\" width=\"360\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Wow, really! Such a programme is just a fantastic way to spend your holidays. I did a German course in GLS Schule in Berlin, after which you will never put spacebar between some words [in German many long words are made up of two or more words \u2018stuck together\u2019] The programme meant that I could spend my time having fun and learning at the same time. Nothing stands in the way of combining these two things, as at the GLS School you find interesting teachers, cool friends and a broad range of extracurricular activities. Let\u2019s just name some: the city and its variety of event, clubs and museums, including the Neue National Museum (New National Gallery), Juedisches Museum (Jewish Museum) and the Berlinermauer Museum (Museum of the Berlin Wall), as well as many more, some just being opened. In the city is Berlin you can come across a lot of modern history, for example, the remnants of the Berlin Wall are still left on the streets, and even the line where it stood before is still visible (as well as the rabbits in between, but, that\u2019s a different story). Additionally, new lists of extracurricular activities were given every next week, always different \u2013 always interesting.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Classroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Classroom-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Krajnik Classroom\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Classroom-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Classroom.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The German courses in the school can fit everybody, regardless if you had contact with the language before, or you are a complete beginner. After arriving to school on the first day the students write a test assessing their language skills, writing, speaking, listening and reading. Of course, everybody can have a bad day \u2013 in case your score wouldn\u2019t really match you real abilities, there is always a possibility to move to a different group. There are three sets of courses \u2013 the Standard, the Intensive and the Crash. The Standard Course, which I did, provided me with the lessons from the morning to the early afternoon. During it we had one pause with switching the teachers and going for a coffee to a local Cafeteria.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Cafeteria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Cafeteria-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Krajnik Cafeteria\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Cafeteria-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Krajnik-Cafeteria.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The local Cafeteria (pictured above) is an interesting thing. The students are provided with three meals a day consisting of everything what one can wish for. Cereals, scrambled eggs, one hundred things to make a sandwich with, coffee express. In the Cafeteria we also attended the Stammtisch, which always takes place on the first day. The Stammtisch brought all the students together to talk, have fun, while practicing the language. The new students could then meet the others and talk with the people outside their course. Personally, it was for me an incredible experience, to listen to stories of all the people from around the globe, as the GLS School works also on the other continents there is an opportunity to meet people from Columbia and Russia, China and Italy, USA and Mexico and many more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wow, really! Such a programme is just a fantastic way to spend your holidays. I did a German course in GLS Schule in Berlin, after which you will never put [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[270],"tags":[72,51,249,22,44,73,50,57,60,28,275,90,56,74],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-programmes","tag-berlin","tag-culture","tag-europe","tag-first-day-in-class","tag-food-and-drink","tag-germany","tag-learning-a-new-language","tag-local-cuisine","tag-making-friends","tag-settlingin","tag-study","tag-studying","tag-summer-programme","tag-things-to-do"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4QQbz-3u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2943,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/germany-memories\/","url_meta":{"origin":216,"position":0},"title":"(Ger)many memories\u2026","author":"Rosalind Farr","date":"January 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Hallo von Dortmund! 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