Hello everybody in Buenos Aires at Bridges and in Laura McLary's German courses in Portland, Oregon, USA! We have posted our exchanges with Bridges here! Since February 1999 we have been students at an evening school. We can speak fairly good English and we hope you understand us.     We want to introduce our group. Our class is a mixed bag. We have silent and crazy people. In the beginning we were over thirty students, but until now we have shrunk to the number of eighteen. The reason for that is not that school is terrible. The real reason is that each of us works in different jobs over the day, so learning in the evening is very exhausting. Especially in the summertime, it is quite hard to stay with school and to return here after work, so you have to be quite tough. Sometimes all the school staff drives us nuts. For example, I am Kati the youngest girl of the group. I'm 20 years old and I work with a lawyer. My neigbour's name is Katharina, she's 20 years old, too, and she works at an old peoples home. Siggi is 32 years old, she teaches nurses. Last but not least, we have Marion, she is 37 years old and she works for social welfare.    We visit this school to continue our education or to keep our brain from decay. Five days a week, a mysterious power drives us, for four lessons (17:30 till 21:00 hour) to the Bielefelder evening-college for adults. We come from different towns of the surroundings of Bielefeld. Our age is from 21 to 42 years. In three years' time we all have to finish evening school with our Abitur, the German university access examination. To learn lively English, we are ready to contact you and have even already written down some questions which we would like to be answered by you either on the net or via e-mail: What is your average age? What is your hometown? What are your plans for the future? What is your family background/status? Where do you live? How big is your town/city? What kind of school do you attend? How much time do you spend at school per week? What kind of lessons do you have? What are your professions? Which examination do you pass at the end of school? What can you do with it? How many people are in your class? How many hours by day do you work in your jobs? What language do you normally use? Are you interested in politics or environmental questions? What about indigenous peoples and their problems in your country? What do you do in your free time? If you are interested, feel free to e-mail us, please! So long and bye, bye! The 521ab of the Städtisches Abendgymnasium Bielefeld: Anne-Katrin Block Kadiriye Cakir Katharina Galatzka Stephan Günther Kai Heinrich Susanne Kochsiek Thomas Krähenhorst Waltraud Kramer Tido Perret Alexandra Ring Dirk Schlingemann Christian Scholz Marion Stöth Sigrun Wiehe A classmate of ours, Mr. Schäfer, went to Arizona. USA, in October and visited a Pima native American who he got to know by mediation of our techer of English, Mr. Seidensticker. If you are interested in his short report, go here. You can also directly mail us using this form: your message: