What a day, I am worn out! I took my test and I think I passed it. I did great on the speaking part. I am glad I studied for it. There is a great practice test online (Links) for some of the tests given here. It is the same format as the real test, the example questions are the same on the real test. It helped immensely as did having a friend go over it word for word with me and a teacher to help me speak better and conjugate. It is nerve wracking though. The listening questions are very tricky and I had to listen carefully to what was being said. A couple I just didn’t get (didn’t know some of the words and they talked fast) so I did what any person would do- I guessed. Taking tests in college were nothing compared to this. College was for letters A,B,C….This is so I can continue to be here, I fail and I am probably gone, even with the extension, this is a legal requirement. As with probably any country, if you can’t speak the language, you won’t get far.
So I will continue to study and learn the language, I can take classes providing I passed the test. I will know tomorrow when I call. Other than getting my test results over to the Ordnungsamt along with a biometric photo – a digital photograph taken only at specified places here, after it is taken it goes immediately into a database- I am taking the next few days off. I deserve it and so does my partner, we have been going non-stop since before we moved here. Hopefully I wll figure out how to get my mp3 player on the blog so visitors can hear my nephews music!