This week the country to be presented was Germany-my own homecountry. Of course I wanted to do this presentation especially good and interesting-everybody wants to show the nice sides of his or her country. Unfortunately I was not able to show all the slides of the presentation that I had prepared because the administrative stuff took quite a while. It is a neccessary evil and a non-recurringhe one, but I was a bit disappointed I couldn’t share everything with the students.
What I myself discovered as I searched the internet for information, that a lot of people still seem too have the old prejudices against Germans and think that we are all  Nazis. That made me quite sad because although I think it is very important that we don’t forget our past and that we are conscious of the crimes and the guilt of the German people, the rest of the world should try to give us a second chance and remember that the majority of Germans still alive today were small children or not even born when the Nazis ruled over Germany.
I was also quite surprised but very happy that really as good as al the students attended this cultural part as I requested them to do.
I tried to introduce some of the German culture that they are perhaps not very familiar with, like classical music or also literature which I will try to give them a better understanding of in the next class. Of course I also presented them typical German stuff like beer and the German stereotyp of the serious, tidy, punctual, hardworking citizen, but I relativated this image and hopefully gave them a more correct picture of Germans- we are quite like the rest of the world, we are just more likely too follow the many rules society everywhere sets.
I honestly hope that my attempt to give them an impression of the German language, especially the Bavarian dialect was received well and did not overstrain or tire them. I invented a small quiz to make them familiar with some typical Bavarian expressions.
All in all I am grateful for the students attention and hope that they are genuine and brave enough to tell me if I ask to much of their attention span or if my presentation grow too tedious.

But perhaps the German snacks conciliated them with my long speech since they liked the small salty pretzels and the butter cookies quite a lot. Even the spiced tea of the old German tea brand “Teekanne" seemed to have been enjoyed, although it is rather very different from the tea Taiwanese people are used to.

I for my part enjoyed the class and I am looking forward to this week’s cooking!

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Bavarian slogan which means “we are who we are" which implies the Bavarian are proud of who they are and won’t let anybody change them

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