exam scores, another exam, and a job update

It's official - I passed the Zertifikat Deutsch exam! I received a 2, which is a "Gut" (good). I keep thinking of it as a "B", but Stefan says a 2 is actually very good in this situation. Apparently it's more of a B+/A-/A sort of thing because the only higher score would be a 1, which he says is the equivilant of an A++, which hardly anybody gets. So that's good news!

Tomorrow morning I take another test, this time just a placement exam. This is for the university German classes and I'm hoping to place into Level 4....we shall see. Please pray for peace of mind and an acurate performance.

On Saturday Stefan and I went to a job fair with 4 big Pharma companies based here in Marburg. This was enlightening and was good exposure and experience. I took two copies of my US resume as well as my most recent letter of reference. Every representative was very interested and encouraged me to apply not only to the Ausbildung program, but to any general job openings as well.

This was good to hear because we looked into the offered Ausbildungen (3yr certification programs) and they looked pretty easy. One morning's lesson included learning how to write a memo in Microsoft Word. Yeah, I think I learned how to do that about 10 years ago... However, it was good to see what they cover. This left me with questions of "what if my memos look different, how big a deal is that?" and so on. Probably not too big of a deal, but these are things you ask yourself. Then I was thinking...ugh, I usually used a template - how do you create a template with German commands in Word?? So then I started thinking this would be a little painful. In any case, I have a personal deadline to put together several applications in a German format. Hopefully this goes well. Stefan also said he was impressed with how I introduced myself in German during all these meet-and-greets. That's encouraging!