Also a feature of my weekly routine - on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 14:15 to 15:45, I take part in a Linguistics lecture and a Theology seminar respectively, as a 'guest student' ('Gasthörer', literally guest listener) - sort of a programme for people who perhaps work and only have a few hours per week to spare for study, but want to nonetheless. I won't do any exams, but I have to be present 60% of the time to 'pass' and get my certificate saying I took part. Thankfully that means I'm very flexible, so if I'm busy with CVJM work one week and can't go, that's not a problem.
For this privilege, I've had to pay fees of 18€, plus about 12€ to the Copy Shop down the road for a copy of the reading materials. Study will never be so cheap in my life!
The point of being a 'guest student' is to help me decide whether to study Linguistics or Theology at Uni 'properly' (or studying another foreign language would be an option). The Theology idea has only really surfaced since I've come to Germany, but at the moment I'm more that way inclined than to Linguistics - although the latter (ooh, turns out I can still speak English, and formally too, wow!) would probably make for broader career options. But Theology just seems more right for me than Linguistics.
He says now. Who knows when he might change his mind again...
One last thing - hats off to the priest/pastor who leads the Theology seminar - the poor guy wrote on the white board in permanent marker for 95% of the first session.
And one second last thing - the University (a very international one, with 40% students from abroad) is called the European University Viadrina , or Europa-Universität Viadrina, or Uniwersytet europejski "Viadrina" in Polish, as one also sees on signs.
And one last last thing - although it can be tiring sitting through 90 minutes of rather academic German, it's increasing my vocab and, I suppose, knowledge of non-slangish German, which is good.
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