Japanese class *dies* and other experiences

[dagas_isa]

Japanese, I figured, the the class that kicked down my schedule and is now tap dancing on it's neck.

I hated the oral exams, I practically blew it off and paid the consequences, although the two and half days off really, really helped. Like OMG sleep in time Tuesday. *squee*

Wednesday, I went to my exam time, and under went the following transformation:

^_^ --> --> o.o --> o.O --> O.o --> X.x --> x.x

So um yeah.. that's how it went.

I guess this is the perfect time to moan about how sadistic this class it. It's like the teachers and the text book designers hate me. Mostly the textbook designers.

Okay, how the feg does it make any sort of logical sense to have all the listening activities for the chapter (probably about 40 minutes worth of material) on one CD track? It doesn't. Not at all. You can't convince me that it's even any more cost efficient for the wankers.

I think I've gone into the five hours drop kicking my schedule like melon before and the daily quizzes.

I chose this though. So no use complaining.

The bell wouldn't stop ringing today, and it was to the point that it seemed to be a fire drill, so everyone packs up and goes outside for just a few minutes before we go back inside again, and realize that our building is not having a fire drill and that the bell is just wonky-wonky. The building across from us on the other hand.... yeah... I have reason to believe that there was something of a real fire, or at least a drill going on there. Fire trucks were there for quite a bit.

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On a happier note, Dagas has to go to lunch now, make up the bed that she lies in, and then go to one more class, and then meet her parents. So she won't be on tonight most likely.

All of you, breathe a sigh of relief now.

Over and out.

Comments

Carpe Dementium!

[rem-sama.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I know the harrows of language classes, though I suppose Latin is far easier to cope with than Japanese. Although, you know, our listening exercises are still on tape? And the language lab has *really old* headsets, which can be so easily destroyed...at the very least, they also have microphones built in, so we amuse ourselves by talking trash when the teacher leaves the room. ^_^

There's also a large paper slicer in the corner, which has already cut off at least one person's finger. Not this year, of course, but we're all kinda waiting for it to happen.

In any case, good luck with it. ^_^

P.S. I don't quite know what the title means, as, in the three years I've been in Latin, I never bothered to actually translate just what that sign outside our door--which is where that is from--means. I don't even think I spelled it right...

Re: Carpe Dementium!

[sphekiko.livejournal.com]

Japanese has a horrible schedule because it's everyday, and in college everyday = nightmare class. It if were a three-day a week or four-day a week class, it wouldn't be so bad, but nope. Not this class.

Anyway, we have to do all our listening activities outside of class, so we don't have the hugely antique headphones or anything like that.

And I'll be placing bets on that paper cutter thing, as soon as you give me a list of students in your class and also perhaps odds and analysis of their chances of getting sliced.

[nekoshonen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I seriously hate the layout of the CDs, too. And that bell... *cringe* The horror.

But I don't know. Maybe the miniscule cost of dividing the lessons into individual tracks would have broken them. I mean, all the extra effort into designing the CD data, and the text label on the CD to denote which tracks are which lessons. It must have been the straw to break the camel's back.

[sphekiko.livejournal.com]

Wow... separating audio tracks must be a task of Hurculean proportions. Perhaps we should send Houghton Mifflin a fairy godmother or something. Or at least a magical stuffed animal.

This is Japanese class after all.