 Hi, my name is Sina. I'm Lori. Hi, I'm Chantal Warner. I'm P.J. Alfred. I'm Albrecht Glassi. I'm Dr. Chisel. Hi, I'm Wojtek. I've just finished my class. I was teaching. Hi, who are you and what are you up to right now? I'm Peter Ecke and I'm going to my office. Hello. Who are you? My name is Jan. I'm a PhD candidate in the Transcultural Institute. I'm Mary Wildermasset and my general field is applied linguistics. Oh, hi Janice. Can you tell us who you are and what you're doing? I'm Janice McGregor. I'm a professor here in German studies and I'm about to go teach. I forgot something in my office so I'm going to get it and then I'm going to go teach German 303. Hi there, who are you? I'm David Gramley. I'm sorry I didn't clean up my office before you might have to say hello. Well, what are you working on? I haven't decided yet. Who are you and what are you doing right now? Good morning. My name is Hattis from the Facebook. I'm a second year master's student and I'm currently sending out emails for coordination meetings and preparing for my class that I'm teaching later on today. Yeah, study for my comprehensive exams because we are coming up in three weeks. Perfect. Well, we wish you the best. Thank you. Hi, who are you and what are you doing right now? I'm a first year PhD student in German. And what are you doing with what looks like toys? Okay, we're trying to plan for tomorrow's class and see how best we can make the class communicative and lively for the students. Hello, who are you and what are you working on? My name is Barbara Costa and I am right now preparing my my film class, which I'm teaching this afternoon. And you're also the department head, right? I'm also the department head. And like, you remind me of all the things, you know, and fun stuff, the storytelling, whatever. I think that's a good exercise. What's happening here? We're discussing lesson planning for German 101. Hello, who are you? Hi, I'm Taylor Jacobs. I'm one of the professors here and right now I'm filming for this video. Hi, who are you and what are you doing right now? I'm Kira. I'm a grad student in the German department. And right now I'm planning my lesson for today for my 201 class. And you? And I'm Thomas. Hello. How are you doing? I'm doing well. What are you doing right now? It's good. I'm grading right now some assignments that some of my wonderful students have submitted. Right now I'm working on a new book for Routledge and that will deal with trails, tracks, on tracking in medieval literature. So right now I'm writing my first major chapter on Beowulf. Okay, so I'm walking on my thesis. So I'm writing my thesis. I'm in my third semester and I decided to take a thesis project this semester. Perfect. Right now I'm up to drinking the rest of a cup of coffee. At the moment I am running off to a community meeting and then I'll be meeting with graduate students later and I hope to meet you.