I am taking advanced German course twice a week now. We are about 20 people from all over the world, and one tough and fair female teacher. These courses, with their length (about three months), intensity (two to four times a week, four hours at a time) and randomness of gathering people can be a micro-cosmos of the outside world. I am just trying to say that these classes have the potential to explode. They can sit together in one peaceful room people who otherwise would prefer to chew on each other.   Our teacher has her methods trying to break the ice. She is putting 18 chairs in the middle of the room, plays the music, stops it and the two left standing must talk. It is a little bit awkward but I don’t mind it–it gives me ideas to play with my daughter.   The other day the

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