how the week started today i woke up at 4:45 in the morning. after a short walk with our dog, t took my small breakfast. i have had a toast with nougatcream before i started to go to work. presently i´m stationed about 90km away. to keep the daily costy at a lover level, i usually meet some workmates to get an ride only in one car. there are 3 additional workmates, in which the costs can be divided. so the costs could be fixed at an level of one or two ride to our work for each of us. after we arrived, we took a cup of coffee. the traininglessons starts at 7:30 am. after some oral work we chose the reading comprehension part. it was well done. at 9:30 am an other break occurs between the lessons. the last part was the listening comprehension. i made only 4 mistakes, so it seems, that the week starts very well. and only to keep this entry short: since 13:00 hours i´m back at my home.

hm, one of the ideas mentioned on the right hand side: about learning english hello, where do i have to start? of course at the beginning. ok, the reason for learning english is very simple. as a pilot i have to use english for the air traffic communication. there are some differences between the german airspace and french airspace. also the polish communication will be slightly be different. all mentioned countries use their native language for the air traffic communication. except the german goverment do. in france you can speek in french and english of course. but, if you are using the english language, that could may happen, that on military facilities you have to wait some minutes. caused by the fact, that there are some air traffic controllers are not very familiar with the internation icao language. it wasn´t happen to me so far, but friends of mine told me about it. my first english comprehensive course started in 1991. after that i only refreshed my english in 1996 for a 9-week-training-course in the united states. that took only about 4 weeks. since my leaving of the school, it always was very hard to come very familiar with english. now i know the reason. i think that the fact will be the missing words for verbs and adjectives. especially even if there will be some other word, which are not common, used. often you can find some words, which means closely the same. my problem was the remember all these words. now i got an new technic to keep them in mind. i´m sure that it will be now much more easier to remember them. please feel free and correct my entry. and if you may interested in my job or something else, contact me. thanks in advanced. matthias

Something about myself hello, i´m matthias. i´m living in germany, exactly in hambühren, close to celle, which is located between hanover and hamburg. of corse, it´s a lot of closer to hanover than to hamburg ;-) i´m 39 years old and an soldier of the german army. i have been trained as a helicopter pilot, and now i´m going to improve my english. presently i´m taking part of an english training course. it takes only 4 week, will train the basic, so that i have to do something additionally by my own in my leisuretime. my problems are sometimes the decisions of using the "going to" or "will"- forms. one of the others should be mentioned, that i although have to improve my pronounciation and of course my abilities in conversation.