Spaken Sie Deutch?

Day two of the course is over and my head is about to explode. All the stuff I read and wrote about a couple of years ago is coming back to me (but not in enough detail) and I'm getting new stuff all the time.

I'm still uncertain about how much it would be appropriate for me to do (Should I do a practice background assignment? should I push to do as much teaching practice as the others or take a step back? That sort of thing.) Yes, I'm paying as much as the others but I've got most of my work out of the way and I'm not sure I want to push myself as hard as they will have to. I know I need to talk to the tutors about it - soon, I promise.

Yesterday, we listened to a recording of a conversation in German and had to do various things which included identifying the reason for the conversation. As you know I don't speak German (actually at the moment I can barely speak English) but I was able to work out that it was someone opening a bank account! I am a genius. All those years of wandering around foreign countries, not able to speak the language but still communicating has obviously paid off. Now, if only I could learn to speak a language (any language would do but Italian or Spanish for preference).

In one way it's exciting to be learning again, my brain is fizzing and, as I said, things are coming back to me but, my god, am I tired.

PS I apologise to any German speakers for the title, as I said I don't speak German!