hey there! thank you sooo much for being so very nice and writing back to me! ian and mark, thanks for explaining! well well well i did do well indeed..... when i entered the room, mr hooton (he's ever so sweet, looking a bit like star wars joda (yoda?)) with a peace sign earring in his right ear ; ) offered me a seat and told me i passed. i was REALLY surprised. i mean the vocabulary part was like a big fat quiz show including a lot of guessing. and he said 'oh, you did do well in the vocabulary part' - i could hardly keep my breath. i told them (a smart guy from the faculty was sitting by, too) that that's really a relief and that i thought i had failed miserably. and that i feel like fainting any minute. especially then, facing the oral part. we all had a laugh. then we got started and it was just a bit of small talk, he asked me about my studies and i told them a bit about yiddish in general and a seminar on descartes i took last term and about gender trouble and judith butler and, being asked about, my trips to london. and then i told them about a holiday spent in teignmouth, a small city by the sea in cornwall, near exeter. and that i was staying with an old (i reakky said) 'madam' (embarrassing, embarrassing) before i realised what i just said. then we all had to laugh very much and he told me that i'd better use the term 'lady'. i said it was a strange holiday, but not that strange as staying with a madam..... must have been less than ten minutes, he told me i'd passed and out i rushed. phoned people then, keeping on yelling. i was soooo exited. i made it. i passed! i will never have to worry about english grammar again! (i'm just kidding...) spending the rest of the day with HER made the day kind of perfect. we went outside and took pictures with her lomo camera, we got some helium balloons and had quite a lot of fun. well, we've been knowing each other since....november, we are getting on pretty pretty well. our friendship is growing stronger any day. if only there wasn't her boyfriend..... that's a problem. but she told me she finds me very charming and interesting and nice and funny and intelligent and whitty and good looking and attractive and sexy and whatsoever and that she's maybe going to fall madly in love with me. well, that's a perspective, i guess : ) yesterday she and me were moderating (is that the correct term? i mean we were the moderators...) an anti war concert in the predestrian precinct in düsseldorf's inner city. nearby the rhine. it was a kind of sucess, as many people were there and not only the 'usual suspects', but a lot of 'fresh young' people i've never ever seen before. but it was cold and i didn't like the music (nu metal, reggae, emo, hip hop and cossover bands....) in the evening we went to a party, a good friend of mine ('my' co singer and guitarist) was celebrating her birthday (30, my godness, she's thirty. unbelievable. i'm 22 by the way, not that these numbers do matter in any way). and then she told me about that dream she had: we were sitting on a couch and she was feeding me a praline(!) the praline was pink and had white stripes(!) and then we were kissing(!!!) and looking at each other. then she woke up. well, i didn't actually know what to reply. i also can hardly remember what i did reply in the end, i think i said sth like 'well, it's a shame you're always waking up at the most thrilling moment' ("but it all fades into morning when you open your eyes" : ) and then i told her that she's 'the woman of the evening' ('du bist die frau des abends') and that's she's extremely gorgeous. and then she kissed me on the cheek, her boyfriend watching us suspicously from across the room. he's very jealous. knowing that i go for girls he's always keeping an eye on us. and whenever we are meeting, he constanly asks her what we've done afterwards and how it was and he's forever calling her on her mobile when he knows that she's with me. but she has been turning it off, lately. : )))) i think with this kind of 'possession claims' he will kick himself out sooner or later. and: i'm patient. 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