Week Thirty-two - The Germans are coming to Inverness College

Six weeks to go! I can't believe it!


Tomorrow, German students from Inverness's German twin city, Augsburg, Bavaria, southern Germany, where the father of the infamous Mozart once lived, will be arriving and we've been asked to help them on their citizenship/ social media project - just I don't know what to do exactly.  Maybe it's a good thing that normal classes are not on tomorrow. 


Tomorrow morning, I have a dentist appointment in the morning so I will miss the start of our meeting of the German students, but I hope that I won't be too late for the start in the morning. 


This won't be the first time I've met German students from Augsburg.  When I was studying NQ IT Apps between Jan and June 2011, one of the classes I was doing was called Event Organisation, and we were asked to organise an event for the German students.  Everyone (but me) spent most of the classes arguing with our lecturer, Jodie MacDonald.  The arguments began after the class, suggested taking the German students to Inverness Castle, only to be told by Jodie that the only way into the castle was only if we were in trouble with the law, for Inverness Castle is where the Sheriff Court is.  Everyone then asked: "Well why do people come to take photos of the castle, if it's not a tourist attraction?" Eventually, we managed to organise an re-enactor to come and explain to the Germans about the Jacobites and the Battle of Culloden. 


I hope that this week goes well for all of us and can help the visiting German students in any way we can. 


Wish us all luck.