As we all know, the last hour before Christmas is spent playing. So, Scrabble – but in Latin :) We had a lot of fun and were able to practise a lot of grammar at the same time. You can see our result above!
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Tonight I was on a “secret mission”. IT – SYSTEMHAUS had invited me to their Christmas party and I designed a short tour from Baumwall, the company’s headquarters, to the Fleetschlösschen, which served as a destination and evening activity exclusively for the employees. The employees knew nothing of their good fortune beforehand… Our tour of […]
read moreI finally have my certificate for the Spanish language in my hand. I passed my exam in September and now I’m going to apply for state recognition and then get sworn in.
read moreEveryone talks about the “advent” but only few people know that the word derives from the Latin word “adventus” – in English “arrival” – or even “advent” – which in Christianity leads to the arrival of Jesus Christ. What even fewer people know, is that originally the time of advent was a period of Lent.
read moreEveryone talks about “Advent”, but very few people know that “Advent” comes from the Latin word “adventus” – meaning “the coming” and in Christianity refers to the arrival of Jesus Christ. What even fewer people know is that Advent was originally a time of fasting.
read moreOn Thursday, November 12th, 2015, I – as a qualified guide for Hamburg, had the pleasure to guide a harbor tour on English. My group consisted of 68 American and Canadian farmers. My board staff and I picked our guests up at 1.30 pm at Finkenwerder ferry quay with our boat “Hafen Hamburg”. We could […]
read moreOn Thursday, November 12, 2015, as a qualified tour guide in Hamburg, I had the pleasure of accompanying 68 American and Canadian farmers on a tour of the Port of Hamburg in English. My crew and I collected the guests at 1:30 p.m. in Finkenwerder at the ferry terminal with the “Hafen Hamburg” and started […]
read moreOn Friday morning, both my Swiss group and I were at the ZOB, our meeting point, on time so that we could start our city tour straight away. After driving around the Outer Alster Lake through one of Hamburg’s posh districts and getting to know street names such as “Bellevue” and “Schöne Aussicht”, we were […]
read moreFor once, I arrived at the ZOB, our meeting point, two minutes late on Wednesday morning. I had already prepared myself for a thunderstorm, because we tour guides in Hamburg were supposed to be at the meeting point before our guests. But Marcel, the bus driver, just said: “It’s only a minute, that’s no problem!” […]
read moreMy Swiss group was more punctual than the Germans at the ZOB, our meeting point, on Tuesday morning. We were able to start accordingly, but the traffic held us up a bit. After driving around the Outer Alster through one of Hamburg’s posh districts and getting to know street names such as “Bellevue” and “Schöne […]
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