Clearly I am feeble in some way
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korilianToday was my first lesson French. My first lesson advanced University level French.
As I was listening to the teacher blathering away (in French) what was expected of us for the next few weeks, I could just picture myself sitting in that English class I could have picked, instead.
Sure, I'll read a book in English and then write a single paged review on it in English. Can I? Can I? Can I?
Will Lord of the Rings do? Read that about a dozen times.
Hell! How about I do it in German! I speak German!
But nooo! I figured it would be cool to learn a new language! Challenge myself! Your going to the university! Be braniacy!
Which brings me back to that advanced University level French class... And the fact that I don't actually speak French...
Je suis une imbecile!
But enough about me. Here's something I've been wondering about all day; If New Orleans has finally been evacuated completely, then how come my local paper is still posting interviews with people who decided to stay because they couldn't take their pets with them? Am I the only one who keeps getting this image of city officials entering the city six months down the road, only to be confronted by the independent peoples republic of Nawlins? Could hardly fault them really.
As I was listening to the teacher blathering away (in French) what was expected of us for the next few weeks, I could just picture myself sitting in that English class I could have picked, instead.
Sure, I'll read a book in English and then write a single paged review on it in English. Can I? Can I? Can I?
Will Lord of the Rings do? Read that about a dozen times.
Hell! How about I do it in German! I speak German!
But nooo! I figured it would be cool to learn a new language! Challenge myself! Your going to the university! Be braniacy!
Which brings me back to that advanced University level French class... And the fact that I don't actually speak French...
Je suis une imbecile!
But enough about me. Here's something I've been wondering about all day; If New Orleans has finally been evacuated completely, then how come my local paper is still posting interviews with people who decided to stay because they couldn't take their pets with them? Am I the only one who keeps getting this image of city officials entering the city six months down the road, only to be confronted by the independent peoples republic of Nawlins? Could hardly fault them really.
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Date: 2005-09-07 07:30 am (UTC)As for the French. I know, I know. It shouldn't have come as such a big shock that I'm out of my league. I've known all summer that this was an advanced course (French, English and German are the only languages you can't take at starters level... Bastards) and I signed up anyway... which still makes me une imbecile. Or quite possibly one of those red shirts one Star trek OS (let's face it, at some point the ensigns should start noticing they're colleges tend to come back in pieces and yet they still blindly beam down!). Oh well. I suppose if I fail, I could always take that Italian course in my third year (gotta take a language). Spend another 200 euros on books. *sigh*