LLT Vol7Num2: Belz Appendix

APPENDIX A

E-mail 1 (October 19, 2000)

1	Dear ERIC
2
3	It was very interesting reading your homepage and getting to know you a little bit through it.
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5	This week it was the beginning of the semester and today our first class of English started.
6	Here at the Justus- Liebig- University most of the classes are really crowded, like our English-
7	class. You have a choice of signing up in a list during the summerbreak to make sure you get in
8	the course of your choice, but my friend and I couldn't decide what courses to take until the last
9	minutes, so we were not on that special entry list. Luckiely we got still accepted (about 15 people
10	had to leave) and now we are here to introduce ourselves to you.
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12	Well, lets start with my friend.
13	Her name is CATHARINA, called CATHARINA or from me OLGA. She is sitting right next to
14	me. We are doing this project in team work, because firstly there weren't enough partners of
15	yours to match with the number of students from us and secondly because we are such good pals
16	that we usually try to do everything together.
17	She is 21 years old, lives near Giessen in LA, yes seriously in LA - Langenaubach . It is quite a
18	small village with about 2000 inhabitants and there is not much to do. That's why she mostly
19	hangs out in the surrounding with friends, having fun, laughing, watching TV, doing some
20	sports. She is now trying to convince me to tell you that she plays squash, well, I'm not really
21	convinced, I guess she is rather trying to hide from the ball. JUST KIDDING
22	CATHARINA is really good looking, always dressed in fancy cloth, but no skirts. Oh, she has
23	something hardly anyone has, it's really cool!
24	She sees everything twice, two boys instead of one, two bottles of Coke, not one, cool, eyh?!?
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26	I'm the typer for today, not that I'm better than her, with my two fingers search system of typing.
27	My name is ANKE, I'm the same age as CATHARINA, 21 but we mostly kinda behave younger.
28	We love to laugh, to giggle, to have fun - everywhere we go, so mostly we are the loudest out of
29	class and the wildest on the street, the fastest in the car.
30	…the loudest out of class… you asked us what we study. We both study Math and English to be
31	a teacher on high-school and we are in the 3rd semester, that means the 2nd year.
32	University is not that hard over here, we mostly enjoy it.
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34	Wir müssen jetzt in Deutsch weiterschreiben und sind leider noch nicht zum Verbessern unserer
35	Fehler gekommen, da die Zeit schon rum ist.
36	Sorry, das nächste Mal gibt es mehr in Deutsch.
37	Nochmal zu mir, ich höre auch gerne Musik und versuche immer wieder verschiedene
38	Musikinstrumente(Gitarre, Cello, Klavier) auszuprobieren und sonst habe ich wieder mit
39	Kampfsport angefangen- Shotokan Karate, was ich schonmal mit 14 gemacht habe.
40	(Now we have to continue writing in German and unfortunately we didn't get to correcting our
41	mistakes because the time is up. Sorry, next time there'll be more in German. Back to me, I also
42	like to listen to music and I'm always trying out different musical instruments (guitar, cello,
43	piano) and otherwise I've taken up contact sports again - Shotokan karate, something that I did
44	when I 14.)
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46	Ach, wir sollen ja noch einige Fehler von dir korrigieren, also uns ist nur ein grosser Fehler
47	aufgefallen. In deiner Web-page hast du gleich am Anfang in einem Satz "weil's Manchmal"
48	geschrieben, das gibt es in dieser Reihenfolge nicht, es heisst "aber manchmal" und du weißt
49	bestimmt selbst, dass man im Deutschen in einem Satz nur Nomen, Substantive gross schreibt.
50	Aber mach dir keine Sorgen, wir haben bestimmt auch viele Fehler gemacht.
51	(Oh, we're supposed to correct some of your mistakes, so we noticed only one big mistake. On
52	your web-page you wrote "weil's Manchmal" right at the beginning of a sentence, that doesn't
53	occur in this order, it should be "aber manchmal" and you certainly know yourself that in
54	German one only capitalizes nouns, nouns in a sentence. But don't worry, we certainly made a
55	lot of mistakes, too.)
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57	Mehr das nächste Mal (more next time)
58
59	Bis dann (until then)
60
61	ANKE und CATHARINA

E-mail 2 (October 19, 2000)

1	Hello ANKE und CATHARINA,
2	It's nice to hear from you for the first time. I am glad you liked our home page, I spent a
3	lot of time working on it! Your english is very impressive. My german is not nearly that good so
4	you're probably gonna have a lot of errors to correct. I actually had a hard time finding many
5	errors in your e-mail. I guess I will begin by correcting a few of your english errors.
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7	Error: "This week it was the beginning of the semester..."
8	Correction: "This week was the beginning of the semester..."
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10	Error: "We both study Math and English to be a teacher on high-school..."
11	Correction: "We both study Math and English to be high school teachers..."
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13	Jetzt werde ich einbisschen auf Deutsch sprechen. Habt ihr unsere ganzen Webseite gesehen? Es
14	gibt viel Information ueber unsere Lebens und Uni. Habt ihr die Bilder von unsere ganzen
15	Klasse gesehen? Es ist sehr nett. Es steht auf: http://language.la.psu.edu/ger201/Landkarte.html .
16	Habt ihr Bilder von sich selbst oder die klasse? Vielleicht konnt ihr die Bilder an unsere Klass
17	schauen. Du hast gesagt dass, CATHARINA spielt Squash. Was ist das? Ich weisst nicht ueber
18	Squash oder was es ist. Es tut mir leid, aber die Seit fuer unsere Klasse ist um. So muss ich jetzt
19	gehen.
20	(Now I will speak [sic] a little in German. Did you see our whole website? There's a lot of
21	information about our lives and the university. Did you see the pictures of our whole class? It is
22	very nice. It is here: web address. Do you have pictures of yourself or the class? Maybe you
23	could show the pictures to our class. You said that Catharina plays squash. What's that? I don't
24	know anything about squash or what it is. I am sorry but the time for our class is over. So I have
25	to go.)
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27	Spater, (Later)
28	ERIC

E-mail 3 (October 26, 2000)

1	Hey ERIC,
2
3	we wrote such a long mail to you this morning, and then ANKE closed the
4	program...
5	She writes a new message now.
6	I just wanted to correct your errors, but for doing this I have to read
7	your email again.
8	We will correct them next Thursday.
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10	Well, you don't know squash?!
11	I explain it to you... But in German!
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13	Also, Squash ist ein Ballspiel mit einem Schläger... Squashschläger. Man
14	ist in einem geschlossenen Raum und schlägt einen kleinen Ball gegen
15	eine Wand. Er kommt dann immer wieder zurück... Man kann es entweder zu zweit
16	oder allein spielen.
17	(So, squash is a ball game with a raquet… a squash raquet. You are in an enclosed space and
18	you hit aa small ball against a wall. It keeps coming back at you… You can play it as doubles or
19	singles.)
20
21	That's it.
22
23	Ciao, bye, tschüss, CATHARINA

E-mail 4 (October 26, 2000)

1	Hi ERIC,
2
3	after having written you an e-mail for about 45 minutes the whole long
4	letter just disappeared. :-( :-(
5
6	In it we wanted to tell you about the student-party yesterday night but
7	haven't had enough time to do so, so we didn't. (What a sentence!)
8	Anyways, we got a task from our teacher, I guess you got the same:
9	To talk about literature.
10	Well, lets do so:
11	I think it is kinda hard to express my thoughts to a peson from which I
12	have
13	only received just one letter. (I know it's no ones fault, we just have to
14	little time).I don't really know how you think, what you think,... Usually
15	I wouldn't tell kinda "strangers" my feelings, even if it is only about a
16	book, because it is kinda personal.
17	But well, we don't have any other choice, do we?
18	We got two books from Mr. Müller-Hartmann last week: "Ben liebt Anna" and
19	"If you come softly! to read through. First I read "Ben liebt Anna", it
20	was really easy reading for me, because this book is mainly written for grade
21	6 to 8ers.
22	After starting "If you come softly", the title seemed quite interesting.
23	Loooking through the book, I noticed that it can't be that hard either,
24	because of the big letters in which it is written. Reading was as I
25	thought, quite easy with no vocabulary problems, but still the book kinda
26	hit/struck me.(But i didn't really get the title thing.)
27	Compared to "Ben and Anna" I could really identify with the main
28	characters, even I never had a problem with racial differences. (Here in Giessen
29	aren't so many black/colored or whatever the political right declaration of
30	people with black skin is, and the Turky and Russan people kinda already belong
31	to us, so that in my group of friends no one would ever care if I had a "not
32	German" boy-friend). You know, I used living in Canada as an exchange student and there I
33	remembered the situation described in the book - falling in love for the
34	first time. I was 15 saw the boy first time in high-school. I became a
35	really weird feeling, nowing that I liked him, but not why - the same
36	feeling the girl feels in the book,.... Exept we never made it that far. I
37	only knew him for a few weeks, not much talking to eachother, but already
38	knowing that I liked that person quite a lot. Than I went on a weekend
39	trip to Edmonton and when I came back, Kyle had killed himself.
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41	I wonder what the book tries to tell you? For sure it tells you to think
42	about racism and that people no matter of their skin color might have
43	similar feelings anyway. But what does the end tries to tell you??
44	For me, already influenced through that thing that happend in Canada can't
45	really imagine of anything other than: try to live in the moment, tell
46	people when you like them,...???
47	What do you think?? And what does the title tell you?
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49	Well, back to "Ben liebt Anna", really cute, but thinking back I have
50	never experienced anything like this in my childhood.
51	Looking at the language, he really uses interesting expessions, even he
52	comes from Hessen (it's a Bundesland, like Pensilvania) where I live and
53	through this should use quite similar vocabulary.
54	I think you really see that the book was written about 20 years ago.
55	If you`d like any examples please tell me in your reply.
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57	Do you know any interesting English books, just for reading and thinking
58	at home?
59	Have you heared of "the celestrian prophecy", I really liked that book.
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61	Ich muss dir ja auch noch etwas in Deutsch schreiben, obwohl meine
62	deutsche Schriftsprache am Computer meist schlechter ist als mein Englisch.
63	Wir haben deinen Text gelesen und du hattest einige Fehler gemacht.
64	CATHARINA verbessert sie dir in ihrer e-mail.
65	Wenn ich eine ganze Zeit in Englisch gedacht habe, ist es total schwer für
66	mich auf einmal in Deutsch weiter zu schreiben.
67	Ach, da fällt mir ein, du wolltest wissen ob wir Fotos von uns haben.
68	Momentan noch nicht, aber wir werden uns drumm kümmern. Du hast auch nach
69	einem Klassenbild gefragt. Also, bei uns ist das keine Klasse, sondern
70	eher ein Kurs. Wir kennen uns alle nicht, kommen aus verschiedenen Städten und
71	sehen uns auch nur ein Mal in der Woche für so ca. 80 Minuten.
72	Freundschaften werden da eher selten geschlossen, folglich gibt es auch
73	kein Bild.
74	(I still have to write you something in German, although my writing in German on the computer
75	is typically worse than my English. We read your text and you made several mistakes. Catharina
76	is going to correct them for you in her email. When I have thought in English for a while, it is
77	totally hard for me to suddenly continue writing in German. Oh, it occurs to me that you wanted
78	to know if we have pictures of ourselves. Right now we don't, but we'll take care of that. You also
79	asked about a class picture. Well, our course isn't a class [NB: this is the German word for a
80	group of pupils a the elementary or secondary level. Unwittingly, Eric uses it to refer to the
81	group of people in his university course, causing some confusion here.], but rather a course. We
82	don't know each other, we are from different cities and we see each other only once a week for
83	80 minutes. We seldom make friends [with people in our university course], therefore there is
84	also no [class] picture.)
85
86	So unten auf der Seite kommt noch eine kleine Auflistung über meine
87	Person, die ich mal von einer Freundin (über sie) zum Zurücksenden bekommen habe,
88	kannst sie wenn du Zeit has mir auch zurücksenden mit Angaben über dich.
89	(Below you'll find a little list of information about me, that I once got from a friend to fill out and
90	send back to her, if you have time you can also fill it out with information about you and send it
91	back to me.)
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95	>NAME: ANKE
96	>
97	>AGE: 21
98	>LIVING ARRANGEMENT: mum, dad, sis and my dog Alfi
99	>FAVORITE TV SHOW: Commedy
100	>FAVORITE BOARDGAME: its a card game: Skat
101	>FAMORITE SMELLS: coffee, my boyfriend (when I have one)
102	>PERFUME/COLOGNE: cool waters by Davidoff and ... ... by Adidas
103	>WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD: Lonliness, fear
104	>BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD: When you fall in love, to arrive in
105	Canada
106	>FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK:Hip Hop (right now)
107	>WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK WHEN YOU WAKE IN THE MORNING?
108	What's the
109	>time?
110	>ROLLAR COASTER - SCARY OR EXCITING? The more scary the more exciting as
111	>long as I don't get sick on them.
112	>HOW MANY KIDS: 0
113	>FUTURE DAUGHTERS NAME:??? might call her "Kyle" as well?? FUTURE SONS NAME:
114	>Kyle
115	>FAVORITE FOODS:it really depends on my mood CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?
116	>Chocolate all the way
117	>DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE? I DO!!!!!
118	>DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? No
119	>STORMS SCARY OR COOL? Cool, it whisles around my house (I live 30m off the
120	>ground) WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? GM- Opel Senator, 1989 with 100ps
121	>IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE? J. F. Kennedy
122	>FAVORIT ALCHOLIC DRINK? None
123	>WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? Cancer
124	>WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? I don't have one (No Fear poems)
125	>DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCOLLI? yep
126	>IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE? Scientist or a
127	cop
128	>IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR WHAT WOULD IT BE? I can, but I don't
129	>want to HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? I think so
130	>IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? Half full :-) depends on what it's
131	>in the glass
132	>FAVORITE MOVIE(S):The Crow, Pulp Fiction, Eiskalte Engel ARE YOU A RIGHTY,
133	>LEFTY OR AMIBIODEXTROUS? Lefty
134	>DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? I try
135	>WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Blankets
136	>FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? HOCKEY and Material Arts
137	>BEST VACATION: what does it mean? Like holidays? Canada
138	>PLACE üOU MOST WANT TO VISIT: after being a stuardess (visited lots of
139	>places) maybe Japan, Thailand,Laos SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO
140	>SENT THIS TO YOU: I miss our parties from 1995/96 and the summer of 99 (
141	>Cowboy, cars and guys)
142	Used to be my host sister
143	>PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND: I'm not even sure
144	>whome I'm going to send this to
145	>PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: Frank, cause he doesn't
146	>like things like this.(quite good friend of mine)
147	>
148	>
149	>Now you know a bit more about me and my interests. Hope you liked it.
150
151	Take care
152	Hope to here from you soon
153
154	ANKE
155
156	P.S. You can also use my hotmail adress to send me any other e-mails
157	Xxx@xxx
158	Are you interested in some funny forwarded e-mail-junk :-) like pictures
159	or jokes??
160	>
161	>

E-mail 5 (October 26, 2000)

1	Hey ANKE and CATHARINA,
2
3	Wow! that was a really long letter you sent me ANKE. And the profile was very interesting. I
4	will try and fill that out for myself and send it back to you so you can know a little more about
5	me. Perhaps then it will be easier for us to discuss our personal feelings about the books we read
6	since you'll get to know me a little better.