Fertig

Which effectively means "done".

Today was the Deutsch-Test für Zuwanderer. Zuwanderer being immigrants in case you wondered. It was quite chaotic in the group I was in, and I'm not exaggerating when I say I doubt that many people will pass. In my group alone, three people got their sex wrong when writing out the first page - and the choice there was Männlich or Weiblich.

I know I made one mistake in the first three parts of the test, and I can't say for sure how the spoken parts of the test went but I'm quietly confident of a good mark. That means in 2 to 4 weeks I will be officially integrated.

On a down note, I had a job interview this afternoon. Have you ever had an interview where you know that it doesn't matter what you say, they've decided beforehand that you're getting heehaw? I went in thinking it was a job as a Java programmer and I had prepared as well as I could have. So when they started talking about a COBOL job I was taken, ever so slightly, by surprise... Even more so when I was told it was in Karlsruhe (that's 2 hours on the super fast express train from here).

I think we'll forget that one. Time for a glass of sparkly stuff though.