Ooh, That’s What “Visum” Means

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My pupil Dicky (not the real name) read the text carefully, while I ate the tasty cake. 😊 The mother was just nice, always provided cakes for me. Many of my pupils got it also done. There were meal and drinks at the course without I asked that. 😉

We were just speaking about foreigners in Germany. In the course book it is written so: “Ausländer brauchen in Deutschland nach drei Monaten eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung. ...” 

The student of Medical Faculty of the Catholic University Atmajaya will study further in Germany. It is important to know what he would need later as foreigner in Germany. 

Further it is written so in the course book: “Das Ausländeramt fragt nach dem Visum, nach drei Passfotos und nach der Wohnung. ...”

 
We spoke further about life in Germany. From the beginning foreigners must have the right documents so that they don’t have any problem with the German government in the future, if they are already in Germany.

Of course I don’t translate the whole text word by word. Only several words, if it is necessary. The most important is that pupils understand the message of a text. Dicky seemed to understand the text. However it was surprising. The discussion was already far and Dicky asked me, why pupils need a “Visum”. (Dicky mentioned the German word “Visum”). I was surprised, because we just already spoke about it at the beginning.

Then the young man, who is member of the GKI Puri Indah, asked, what Visum is called in Indonesian. As I answered his question, he told me, that he always didn’t understand before, because he thought, that Visum means “Visum et Repertum”. 😊

Later on if Dicky becomes a doctor, then he issues such a report, after he has helped police to diagnose a criminal victim. We called the report just like its name in its language “Visum et Repertum”. 😊

It makes sense, that Dicky always hasn’t understood. Why must somebody need Visum et Repertum to Germany? And Visum of which criminal victim? 😉 Indeed Visum in German means visa. 😉

What is “Visum et Repertum” called in German? Well, Dicky must ask his colleagues, doctors, in Germany for himself. 😉

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Why German Course?

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I was standing behind the window in the big meeting room in the big house of my pupil Drew (not the real name) looking at the nice swimming pool. The course hasn’t started yet. Drew was still travelling with her mom. But we still had time.

A few minutes later somebody knocked the door. It was the housemaid. She brought me water to drink. Very nice. 😊

Not too long Drew arrived home and we could start the course.

Drew took the German course with me, because she was not happy with the previous course she has taken. It was in the German culture centre in Jakarta. The teacher didn’t explain the lesson clearly according to her. Besides, the journey to the course venue was not comfortable for her. The long distance and the traffic jam. She herself didn’t drive. Her driver dropped her to the course venue. However it was hard for her doing the course there. 😉

Her brother Dennis (also not the real name) took also German course with me. If Drew wanted to study medicine in Germany, Dennis wanted to study music in Austria. According to him music education is better in Austria than in Germany. 😉

There are some reasons why people learn German. Some of my pupils (among them were Rebecca, Ichel, etc..) who already got German lesson at the university still needed to take an extra German course, since they just could not learn German optimally in a big class. Rebecca and Ichel liked referring their friends to take a private German course with me.

I just remember my other pupil, Kevin, who has got a job in a German company in Germany during his study in the USA. How lucky he was. Since he was assigned in Germany he needed to learn German. He found me and he learned German with me.

Well, other interesting reasons why people learned German you can find from this video. Please watch and enjoy it. 😊

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The Drunk German

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I, my mother, my younger brother, my youngest sister, my niece and my nephew were in a mourning meeting of a relative. There was a man among the singers who were singing Church songs. I know that man. He always acts as a conductor in every meetings of our big family. He directs us when we sing the song “Borsak Sirumonggur”. Our family name is Sihombing, therefore, we belong to Sihombing big family, even closer from the forefather Tuan Guru Sinomba.

Borsak Sirumonggur is a different name of Sihombing Lumbantoruan. I guess, that the song “Borsak Sirumonggur” is created in order to strengthen the brotherhood among the descendant of the forefather Sihombing Lumbantoruan.

After the man has sung, I had chance to speak to him. As long as I knew, he has the same generation number like my father’s number. It is 17 (counted from the forefather Lumbantoruan / Borsak Sirumonggur,  whom is given number 1). Therefore there are 2 alternatives of address to him: amangtua (= the elder father, in this case because he is on the position as the elder brother of my father) or amanguda (= the younger father, in this case because he is on the position as the younger brother of my father). It depends on his forefather. We are together really the descent of the forefather Tuan Guru Sinomba (just abbreviated TGS), however we should find the detailed family tree, whose descent of TGS we are. In fact the man is a descent of the forefather, who is older than the forefather of my father. His forefather is Op. Parhoris (a son of TGS), while our forefather is Op. Mangadum (also a son of TGS). (Please refer to  our family tree Toga Sihombing.) Therefore he is on the position as an elder brother of my father and it means, he is my amangtua (=uncle**). 😊

** Uncle means the brother of father or the brother of mother, no matter elder or younger than the parents. However in our culture Tapanuli there are different kinds of uncle (also aunt). Uncle and also aunt in our culture must not be the blood related brothers and sisters of the parents. The cousins of the parents are also uncles and aunts. Also the cousins from the descents of forefather are aunts and uncles. The kinds of uncle in Batak language are amangtua, amanguda, amangboru and tulang. The kinds of aunt in Batak language are inangtua, inanguda, namboru and nantulang. Age, parent, grandparents, great grandparents and forefather determine the term: which uncle and which aunt is somebody.

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As we were back home, we told my father about the meeting with the uncle “amangtua conductor”. Then father said, “Oh, si Jerman na mabuk (= the drunk German)?” It surprised me, why the uncle “amangtua conductor” is called so.  Then father explained, if a man is tall, taller than normal Tapanuli men in general, and looks relative good, he is called in Toba Tapanuli language “Jerman na mabuk” (= the drunk German).

My father was right, the uncle “amangtua conductor” looks relative good. 😊 He is tall, taller than normal Tapanuli or Indonesian men in general. Unfortunately my father could not explain further, why it is called “drunk”. “Drunk” has a negative connotation. My father could not also explain, why it is called “German”. Besides the Germans Tapanuli people knew already also the Dutch from colonialisms.

Is it because the German missionary,  Reverend Dr. Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen? He had lived a long time due to the gospel in Tapanuli land during the Dutch colonialisms. Hmm 😊

It is not clear, since when the expression “Jerman na mabuk (= the drunk German)” is used. If the expression had been used after the end of the Dutch colonialisms, I think the Tapanuli people should also know the other western people, like the English and American. But, why are the Germans chosen? 😊

Maybe in the future I would research the history, if I had enough time, since when this expression is used by Tapanuli Toba people. 😉

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