Bergfest: The Mid-Point

The reality of Mid-Point brings disbelief.  Half way?  How can this be?  I still have not learned to speak or understand German!  Most of my class mates say the same thing.  I have spoken with no one who is feeling half way finished.  Most feel as I do, that we have only just begun, how can we be preparing for the end?  My class includes people from many lands, and are of a wide spread age group, though none other than of myself is a grand parent.  Yet we are none of us expressing a readiness to finish.  It seems significant that this very diverse group could be of so like of mind, but we do share this concept.  It is reasuring that people who study together, rise above age, differing backgrounds and language barriers to become a single group.