Deutschkurse

My 10 weeks of intensive German classes are coming to an end.  I have really appreciated the fact that I have the luxury of time and money to take these classes.  I know people who either want to take classes but have full time jobs and not enough time or those without the resources to pay. 
For me, it seemed relatively inexpensive for what I got.  Classes were held from 9am until 1PM Tuesday-Friday.  So, 16 hours a week for 5 weeks = 80 hours of instruction for 205 €.  Other than just a handful of days I rode my bike the 3 miles there and back which took about 20 minutes each way combined with nightly homework had me at a 25+ hour a week commitment. 
I really did learn a lot but am so painfully aware of how incredibly far I have to go really feel even somewhat confident in this incredibly difficult language.
The way the school I attended did it was they have 2 teachers who alternate days.  One teacher for Tuesdays and Thursdays and another teacher for Wednesdays and Fridays.  They both had their strengths and weaknesses but I realized very quickly that I was an 80% student with one teacher and maybe on a good day a 50% student with the other teacher.  As a former Spanish teacher this was very interesting to me.  I learned a lot of what NOT to do as a teacher.  Not sure if I will ever teach again in the formal sense but taking these classes did more for my ability to empathize with my students than nearly anything else I have ever done. 

This was the testing day
schedule:
30 minutes of listening
45-50 minutes of reading
30-35 minutes of writing

On a particularly hard day with the 50% Teacher I was riding home and really truly appreciating how amazing our kids are.  This is hard for me to do as a 50 year old woman who has not one thing to lose and I can only imagine how hard it was particularly for Josie who was thrown into a pretty intense German class (because her teachers saw potential even if she didn't quite have the skills yet) within just a few weeks of our arrival here. When I got home that day I told Josie how hard my day at school was and how disappointed my teacher seemed in me and that I felt like crying and she said, "Oh, I felt like crying every day for a couple of months when I first started!"  Of course, she never told us that at the time but I can imagine.  At a time in her life where she feels she have everything to lose to be stuck in a very difficult language class where she feels extra unsure of herself.
Anyway, we had an end of term test.  I did remarkably well in the areas of listening and reading but not so well in the writing part.  The speaking I did OK but didn't get a formal grade for it. 
I'm really happy to be nearly done with my German classes for the school year.  I plan to take a break until next winter where I will likely take another 10 weeks.  I know this is not the most efficient way to learn.  If I were really serious about learning I wouldn't take such long breaks but because I just cannot sit inside a classroom for 4+ hours when the weather in Spring, Summer and Fall are so lovely, I will look forward to more classes come Winter.
From the picture you can see that I scored 17 out of 20 for reading and 19 out of 25 for reading for a combined score of 36.  If you go back up to the first photo you can see the graph the teacher wrote.  To be considered a B1 student ( I was completing the B1 sequence of classes) I needed to be between 33 and 45.  A score of 36 was pretty solid.  Sadly my writing was not so good and I only scored 12 out of 20 and was a solid A2 student.  I guess the testing proves what I already knew in that I am weakest in production (speaking and writing) and stronger in the passive learning.