Hi Santa Ana and everybody else on the globe!
Our English teacher has had the idea to send you a message per Internet. We shall first introduce ourselves in order to make us known a bit:
My name is Nadja Hanning. I'm 22 years old and my job is called: biological-technical assistant. It's a work in a lab. I know that this job is unknown in America. I have been going to school in the evening for two years now to pass my university entrance examination. Sometimes it is hard to come here in the evening(like now) to learn for 3 or 4 hours, but mostly it is funny. They teach us in German, Maths, English, French(only in the first year), History, Biology and Sociology I have been living in a small town called Detmold for two and a half years and I really like it. Sincerely Nadja
Hello! My name is Meike Adolph and I am a 28-year-old woman. I live in a little town called Lemgo in Germany. I work at a university as a chemical assistant. At this university you can study food-technology and there you can specialize as a cosmetic engineer. There, I analyze all kinds of cosmetic products, make research and prepare the chemical analysis for the students. The job is very interesting and I know a lot of students. At last I live together with six students in a big apartment. We have a lot of fun by playing cards, going into the cinema, riding on motorcycles, having parties etc. For 2 1/2 years I have gone to school every evening, to reach my school leaving- examination in order to be allowed to study like them. The rest of my free time I meet my friends, travel, go swimming, play darts and badminton.
Hello, my name is Axel Hunke. I am a male German. I am 25 years old. I have an education as a postman from 1990-93. After this, I made an education as a painter from 1993-95. I worked in this job from 1995-97. I have been at the evening school since 1996. I hope that I get my school-leaving examination this year in December. I am not married, but I live with my girlfriend in a small village near Bielefeld. I have had English for 12 years, but it is as terrible as it was the first year.
Hello! My name is Petra Quast and I am "very" old. I am living with my husband and my five children in a beautiful house in Barntrup. Barntrup is a little town with about 5.000 inhabitants. Since 1996 I have visited the evening school in Detmold from Monday until Friday. We are six students in our class. The lessons are sometimes very hard. My hobbies are swimming, painting, riding bicycle and my children. But I haven`t enough time for my hobbies. Before I married, I learned the job "industry businesswoman". It`s an interesting job. At the moment I can`t go to work, because I must have a look after my babies. For one year we`ve had a dog called Thea. It`s very funny with it.
Hello, My name is Ilka Yvonne Haubold. I am a 22-year-old girl from Germany. I live in a little town called Detmold. I have made an education as a hairdresser, after this I decided to visit school again. Since 1996 I have visited the evening school to get my school leaving-examination. After school I will study, perhaps I will go to a college of education, but I don`t know exactly. My hobbies are reading, swimming, meeting friends, visiting pubs and discos and listening to good music.
Hi, My name is Udo Rosemeier. I am a 31-year-old male and I live in Detmold. From 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. I work as a civil servant. From 5.45 p.m. - 9 p.m. I go to evening classes in order to pass my school-leaving examination. Sometimes, it is very hard to come here every day in the week from Monday till Friday. But now, there are only a few weeks left and our teachers do their best to stand us as we all are nervous as hell.
Here we publish some questions which result from a sequence of lessons about aspects of Latino life in the US-American Southwest:
Do wou have many e-mail friends ?
Do you like to live in Santa Anna ?
Are you born there or in another country ?
How do you live there ?
Do you live alone, with your friends or still with your parents ?
Do you have many friends ?
Are your friends only Hispanic or have you American friends too ?
How are your teachers ?
Are they fair or unfair?
How many people are in your class ?
Do you have to pay money for school ?
How many lessons do you stay in school every day and what do you do after school ?
Have you a typical Hispanic meal ?
Please send us your favourite recipe.
How are your parties ?
What do you drink there ?
Do you live near school, or must you travel e. g. by bus ?
Are you a full-time student or must you work to earn money for living?
Please tell us about you: Hobbies, outward appereance, favourite music and films.
Haubold, Adolph, Quast
Would you please introduce yourself and your class?
How many different nations are there in your class?
How long are you going to school and what are you doing after it?
When you read the text:"Who am I" can you also say that you have the same feelings and thoughts about you and your ancestors?
What are your lessons at school?
How many people are in your class and at school?
Are there often racial conflicts at school or in your town?
Do you like your town and America?
Please tell us something about the area you live in. What do you like?
Please tell us something about you , your family and your friends. Do you live in a great building or in a small house?
What are your hobbies?
Nadja Hanning
Do you like to live in Santa Anna?
Are you born there?(How long have you been living there?)
Do you have many friends? Are they Hispanic, do you have "American" friends, too?
Do you work? Tell me about your work.
Do you know something about your ancestors?
How do you spend your spare time?
(Do you meet many Hispanics at your hobbies, do you meet Americans,too?
Are there only Hispanics at your school, in your class?
Do you have many sisters and brothers? Tell me about your family.
Do you like learning, is it fun to you?
What are your motivations to learn?(Do you need your "diploma" to get a better job?)
How do you live in Santa Anna?(Do you have a house, or do you have a flat, or do you share a flat with others?)
What do you do in the evening? How does one celebrate in Santa Anna?
Do you go to church?
Are you a religious person?
What do you think about tradition? Do you know a lot about the tradition of your ancestors?
Udo Rosemeier