Haartransplantation
For my introduction to German class we have just started our semester this past week. The professor is an interesting lady in that she has a bit of a different style of getting us to learn the language and she is not about to talk down to any of the students in the lack of lingual knowledge. Since it is a summer course the whole class is sped up a great deal and so we have a project due every week on a different topic and from a different type of German media. This week our project has been to look through a German newspaper and find some kind of article that looks interesting to us and slowly translate the entire thing as best we can while she helps us with that translation. At the end of the week we will be presenting the assignment to the class by trying to read the article in German and then in our English translation.
When I started my search I had no idea where to look. My first big step was finding a German news source online because everything I looked for came up in English translation provided by the search engine. When I finally did come across a source it was a German cosmetics magazine and I was excited because it was something about modeling, which I want to do when I graduate. The article is something about the surgery required to maintain the body type of a model as I have gathered from a few words I have translated so far. Here is the excerpt I have translated so far:
Das Leben der Models bedeutet konstante Aufmerksamkeit auf Details. Perfekter Körper, perfekter Auftritt und perfektes Aussehen. Doch auch bzw. gerade hier gilt: Jeder Zentimeter des Körpers muss dem Perfektionismus nahe kommen, den sich die Designer der Haute-Couture wünschen und vorstellen.
Sicherlich ist die heutige, extrem fortschrittliche Technik u.a. bei Bearbeitung von Fotos und Druck in der Lage selbst aus einem "hässlichen Entlein" einen stolzen Schwan zu machen. Dennoch so manches Model hat sich bereits in die Hände des einen oder anderen Schönheitschirurgen begeben: Fettabsaugung, Haartransplantation, Brustvergrößerung, Bruststraffung - sind die 4 Hauptgebiete der plastischen Chirurgie. Erfahrene und erfolgreiche Schönheitschirurgen können ware "Wunder" vollbringen.
Nichts ist so wie es scheint.
This little section of the article was interesting and I can't wait to see the looks on the teachers face when I read it in German. I wonder if she'll be upset by the topic. I hope she's not because I need to do well in this class.