interesting month

My German classes end on Friday.  We're doing an exam in the morning, and then taking the time to discuss it afterwards.  Its going to be interesting, as we have been mostly concentrating on speaking the language so far, not on writing it.  Actually.. I have to say that I assume that the exam is written; it could actually be oral.  That would be better... though I will really have to study the cases for the next few days.  Bleh - the cases are always my problem.  So is gender.  Anyway, I signed up yesterday for the next course, which is in November.  Its another €650 which isn't nice, but it really needs to be done.  Yesterday we were at Anna's Grandmother's apartment, and I was talking to her in German.  Anna noticed an improvement in my language there more than before, probably because she talks to me every day.  This would no doubt be a good thing.  
So, Hellgate London.  I was playing it last night and it rocked!  On my laptop which doesn't have a DX10 graphics card it was very slow until I turned down the options.  When I did that though, it was like being freed from some kind of captivity. It's a very slick, fast, action game with a variable third person perspective above and behind your character. If you don't know the back story, check out the web site.  You could potentially sign up for the beta too.  Anyway, in structure the multiplayer version is quite similar to Earth and Beyond.  You go out from the safe area and perform dangerous tasks - typically like killing demons and collecting loot - but can always come back to the safe areas if you need to do things like recuperate or make objects.  (I've just passed our new apartment on the train again... yay!)  I've not gotten sp far with it yet - though I have killed some monsters in the early stages, and the action is lovely.  Don't forget that more than any other game, this is the successor to Diablo.  Its written by the same people and their penchant for (obsession with) details are incredible.  I've seen some videos of the DirectX 10 version and it looks like some of the best graphics I have ever seen on the PC.  I won't get to play that until I unpack my PC though, which isn't going to be for a few weeks.  Have to head now, we're almost at the station.  I'm not going to have much time to play it this week, but I'll document my findings next week for sure.