My Year in Leipzig
Our wonderful Journalist Delilah Fawce is o? to Germany to study for a
year. We will miss her so much. However, do not fear lovely readers…
she’s agreed to keep us updated all the way from Leipzig and will become
Dunbar Grammar School’s very ?rst ‘foreign correspondent’!
Leipzig
Maybe you know me well or maybe you’ve picked up from some of the ar cles I’ve wri en
for the school magazine: I’m obsessed with languages. They’re amazing and incredible and
learning them opens up a new world as well as a new part of your brain. Above all, I am
fascinated by the German language – its grammar, its vocabulary, the way it strings 30
words together and then claims that’s a new word – so I’m heading o? there. This August,
I’m going to get on a plane to Berlin and then a train south to Leipzig. And I can’t wait.
I’ve ?nished ? h year and am ge ng just a li le bit jumpy staying at home for years when
the whole world is out there wai ng, so I have found 3 families who are willing to take me
into their homes over the course of the year. I will also go to school in Leipzig – Friedrich
Schiller Gymnasium – where I’ll study 11 subjects. This will be very challenging but I am
eager to be completely immersed in the German language to become as ?uent as possible.
I will return to beau ful Scotland in mid?July 2014 and hopefully go on to university to study
German and linguis cs. But I’m too a ached to the wonderful school magazine team to just
leave without looking back. I have wri en so much and so o en for it that life without it
seems a distant memory to me. So I’ve decided to send back updates of what I’m doing and
how I’m ge ng along in Leipzig. German school is very di?erent from Sco sh school so I
want to tell you all about it. Next me from Germany…
By Delilah Fawcett