Having not met face to face in August and the more contagious Delta variant ravaging the Shepparton community, a decision was made to move to remote interaction. Predictably, no sooner than this was arranged the emergency abated. Nonetheless, rather than be left frustrated again, the intention is that we shall not meet for the remainder of the year.

The format is similar to that when Covid restricted U3A at the beginning of last year. That is, the phone is the medium for spoken expression and email for written expression. The difference is that all communication is to Horst, whose first language is German.

All members have elected to write in German and most have taken the opportunity to have work  corrected. This is akin to have individual tutoring and is wonderful for having individual needs addressed. Participants write about anything of their choosing.

Half the members have taken up the option of speaking by telephone. Often hearing difficulties have been the reason for not doing so. We are sticking to the usual fortnightly structure, making times for the next phone call before hanging up.

This seems to be ticking along well. We are indebted to Horst for his willing commitment to the group. If there are others out there who would like to be involved, please let me know.
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Pauline Bailey
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The German group did not meet once in August. The first time we had decided we couldn‘t and at the very last minute we could have. This was all too rushed. The next time we definitely could not!

By way of revision, we tackled a word find related to the vocabulary explored at the end of semester one.
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Pauline Bailey