Bah. Somehow I made it through the day with only about an hour of sleep (I'm not even kidding)! You all know what that meant - there was a paper due today! I finished at 5:57 and woke up at 6:57. It was quite a shock looking out the bathroom window; I was still expecting darkness but it was pretty bright.
Oh, right, finals. Well, my first final was alright; I did pretty well on the multiple guess section, but for the short answer part... I'm hoping I get partial credit, heh. The teacher can't be in too bad of a mood because his wife just gave birth, so...
Then I went to the language lab to kill some of the 5 hours of free time I had. It wasn't as fun as I hoped it would be... but at least I (sort of) studied for the test by listening to the old dialogues, and I (sort of) had fun playing around with the Japanese IME and listening to the Chinese audio exercises (I'm not mastering that language anytime soon...). I tried getting some sleep too but that was a little hard.
Bumped into Todd (from the speech contest) at lunch. Still a nice guy!
Japanese final. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't easy, either. Changing the verbs to honorific forms was tricky, like with 来ている - do you change 来る to いらっしゃる to make it 「いらっしゃっている」 or do you leave it as 来る and change the いる to いらっしゃる to make it 「来ていらっしゃる」? Grr. Translating English to Japanese wasn't as terrible as I thought (having listened to those dialogues at the language lab), though the word order might be a little different from the book. It took me two tries to get the listening part down... I'm still upset that I couldn't catch it all the first time. And as for the last part ("write a letter expressing thanks")... the hard part was remembering the expressions wedid learn! It would have been easier if something like "use ばよかった" was included... then I would know what to aim for...
Yeah, I feel bad about finishing first and leaving so quickly. I wanted to go home, but I also wanted to hang out with everyone... but I didn't know if everyone else felt that way too. Hanging around outside of the class just to hear people say "well, bye" and then walk away would make me feel kinda dumb. I just want an updated group pic!
Still one more final to go. Not too easy, but not too hard. I'm sitting comfortably with a "B", and that's not factoring in participation, so it looks like I'll have to come out with an "A" in the final to get an "A" in the class!
Oh, right, finals. Well, my first final was alright; I did pretty well on the multiple guess section, but for the short answer part... I'm hoping I get partial credit, heh. The teacher can't be in too bad of a mood because his wife just gave birth, so...
Then I went to the language lab to kill some of the 5 hours of free time I had. It wasn't as fun as I hoped it would be... but at least I (sort of) studied for the test by listening to the old dialogues, and I (sort of) had fun playing around with the Japanese IME and listening to the Chinese audio exercises (I'm not mastering that language anytime soon...). I tried getting some sleep too but that was a little hard.
Bumped into Todd (from the speech contest) at lunch. Still a nice guy!
Japanese final. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't easy, either. Changing the verbs to honorific forms was tricky, like with 来ている - do you change 来る to いらっしゃる to make it 「いらっしゃっている」 or do you leave it as 来る and change the いる to いらっしゃる to make it 「来ていらっしゃる」? Grr. Translating English to Japanese wasn't as terrible as I thought (having listened to those dialogues at the language lab), though the word order might be a little different from the book. It took me two tries to get the listening part down... I'm still upset that I couldn't catch it all the first time. And as for the last part ("write a letter expressing thanks")... the hard part was remembering the expressions wedid learn! It would have been easier if something like "use ばよかった" was included... then I would know what to aim for...
Yeah, I feel bad about finishing first and leaving so quickly. I wanted to go home, but I also wanted to hang out with everyone... but I didn't know if everyone else felt that way too. Hanging around outside of the class just to hear people say "well, bye" and then walk away would make me feel kinda dumb. I just want an updated group pic!
Still one more final to go. Not too easy, but not too hard. I'm sitting comfortably with a "B", and that's not factoring in participation, so it looks like I'll have to come out with an "A" in the final to get an "A" in the class!
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