 Conversation 1: A day in my life |
| Claudia Stenzel |
What's your everyday life like? |
| Mareike Herda |
I get up at half-past six... |
| Claudia Stenzel |
You're lucky! I get up at five o'clock. |
| Mareike Herda |
I have breakfast at about seven o'clock and leave the house at about half-past seven. I'm a primary school teacher and live in the suburbs. I travel to school on the bus, it takes about ten minutes. |
| Claudia Stenzel |
When are your working hours? |
| Mareike Herda |
I'm pretty lucky, because I have the first hour off on Wednesdays and Fridays. That means that I don't start until a quarter to nine. And I finish every day at half-past one. I leave school at a quarter to two. |
| Claudia Stenzel |
Do you enjoy your work? |
| Mareike Herda |
Yes, I enjoy the work a lot, but I don't like leaving in Berlin. I find the city too big. |
| Claudia Stenzel |
And what do you do in the afternoon? |
| Mareike Herda |
I work! I do school work and listen to some music while I'm doing it - or I go shopping. I don't really like doing that but it has to be done. At half-past four I pick up my boyfriend from work. |
| Claudia Stenzel |
When do you have your evening meal? |
| Mareike Herda |
We normally have our evening meal at half-past six. |
| Claudia Stenzel |
And what do you do in the evening? |
| Mareike Herda |
After tea we watch television in the living room. I attend an aerobics class twice a week. I enjoy doing aerobics, it's fun and I keep fit. My boyfriend enjoys doing sport. He plays badminton or handball every Wednesday in the sports centre. We also have a lot of good friends, and we often do something together. |
| Claudia Stenzel |
What for example? |
| Mareike Herda |
Every Friday evening we met up to go bowling. After bowling we then go and have a beer. There are a lot of bars. Of course there's a lot going on in Berlin! More often than not we don't get back home before two o'clock. But we normally go to bed between half-past ten and eleven o'clock. |
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