German lessons I used to study German at school for like around 8 years. My mom applied me for the German group, considering that her basic knowledge of this language would be helpful if I got struggled with homework. Actually my mother never helped with my German homework haha. The teacher was quite strict. She could yell at you and give you a D every time when you failed to show her your homework because your dog ate it. But yet that lady with short blonde hair had a warm heart and, sometimes, good sence of humor. I guess she still yells a fair amount when kids get out of line, or failure to turn in an assignment on time. I bet she still starts her lessons asking about how the weather is outside, as she used to ask us. No matter if it was 3.30 p.m in a sunny day in April or 8.00 a.m in freezing morning (which is not rare case in Siberia) in January, all what we had to say were a few phrases such as "der himmel ist blau", "alles ist weis", "est ist kalt". It was hard to pass her course but I somehow almost always got an A. I used to do my homework during lunchtime in canteen and memorize the new vocabulary while the classmates in front were saying it out loud when being checked. It's been almost 10 year since the last lesson. Those German lessons are definitely a huge highlight of my educational path at school, without that lady and her lessons it wouldn't be that colorful and interesting. Those lessons were also a start of learning foreign languages for me. Although I haven't practiced my German over ten years, I still remember a bunch of words and phrases. Maybe one day I will start recovering it. I would like to, actually.