For those who are familar with attending training courses, you would probably agree with the observation that it takes minimally a couple of gallons of pure-grade "this puts hair on your chest" coffee to keep you awake through the boring stuff.
However, when the physical conditions are not exactly ideal for learning (lots of background noises, lots of people stuck in a small room, no fresh air) no amount of coffee will keep us from doze land.
That was the situation I had to endure for most of the week. The fight to stay awake was a heroic effort - with a great assortments of "stay awake" techniques being demonstrated. Some drank coffee, others chewed on candy, some went to the washroom at every break (presumably to refresh themselves with cold water) , and yet others found various ways and means to keep awake (finger exercises that required some brain coordination, tooth picks to prop up the eyelids)..
Desperate situations called for desperate measures, i suppose.
Thankfully, i was forced to stay awake: the course trainer was a true-blooded Municher -> i.e. he speaks german with the munich accent, munich grammar and way of thinking. Since my ear was more attuned to the local german ("standard pronounciation"), I had to concentrate hard in order to understand what was being taught.
.. how does that version of german sound like? ... well.. the best comparison i have would be braveheart speaking german..
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