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2005-12-07 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodoSo... it's been a while, and I decided to update again. It's not as if anything important happened. I spend most of my time learning anyway.
But it does not even help anymore. At least I feel that way. My Japanese seems to have reached a dead end. It's a bit frustrating, really. But I seem to manage quite well in the exams, even though I did not really know how to use the new grammar in the last one. 75% of it was wrong, but only halfway, so I only lost 0,5 points per mistake. I got 84% right in the end, which is quite good, considering that I now can fail the next one and still pass the year without having to make an extra exam which would cost me my holiday (I intended to spend that writing this literature thing for history, and that will take enough time.). But I am afraid of the exam anyway. Not because I might fail but because Sakai-sensei said we would have to spent ten minutes of the time talking to her. In Japanese.
The presentation on Monday was bad enough. My group picked natural catastrophies and I ended up trying to explain in Japanese what hurricanes are. And, unlike the other two, I wrote down everything in short (in Japanese, including Kanji) so I had to actually put it in whole sentences while I was speaking. And of course, I made an awful lot of mistakes. I even forgot the most simple things like putting a "ka" at the end of every question. I was so embarrassed. At least the others understood what I was talking about because I had to repeat everything.
Today was the last day of my book science course. YAY! It was horribly boring. I rather liked the part where we learned how to read old handwriting (19th and early 20th century), but the rest was... well. Boring. Like defining what a file is, and what different things you will find in it. There are about 20 different forms, I think, that have no apparent use other than creating jobs. Remember, this is German bureaucracy I am talking about. Which reminds me of the fact that I still did not get my Bafög application approved, even though I handed it in at the beginning of October while Jette already gets her money and handed it in later. Something tells me I will have to wait half a year again, like last year, though this time they already have the measures of the house I do not own (according to this office's rules I do).
Oh, and![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
sevilemar and I finally bought our ticket home for the holidays, after trying to figure out the cheapest way. Which meant forty minutes queueing and a backache, oh and a headache because the woman in front of me smelled as if she hadn't seen a shower in a month. But now we got them and because we were too late the last cheap ticket was for the 6:40am train. So I have to get up at five. That sucks.
But it does not even help anymore. At least I feel that way. My Japanese seems to have reached a dead end. It's a bit frustrating, really. But I seem to manage quite well in the exams, even though I did not really know how to use the new grammar in the last one. 75% of it was wrong, but only halfway, so I only lost 0,5 points per mistake. I got 84% right in the end, which is quite good, considering that I now can fail the next one and still pass the year without having to make an extra exam which would cost me my holiday (I intended to spend that writing this literature thing for history, and that will take enough time.). But I am afraid of the exam anyway. Not because I might fail but because Sakai-sensei said we would have to spent ten minutes of the time talking to her. In Japanese.
The presentation on Monday was bad enough. My group picked natural catastrophies and I ended up trying to explain in Japanese what hurricanes are. And, unlike the other two, I wrote down everything in short (in Japanese, including Kanji) so I had to actually put it in whole sentences while I was speaking. And of course, I made an awful lot of mistakes. I even forgot the most simple things like putting a "ka" at the end of every question. I was so embarrassed. At least the others understood what I was talking about because I had to repeat everything.
Today was the last day of my book science course. YAY! It was horribly boring. I rather liked the part where we learned how to read old handwriting (19th and early 20th century), but the rest was... well. Boring. Like defining what a file is, and what different things you will find in it. There are about 20 different forms, I think, that have no apparent use other than creating jobs. Remember, this is German bureaucracy I am talking about. Which reminds me of the fact that I still did not get my Bafög application approved, even though I handed it in at the beginning of October while Jette already gets her money and handed it in later. Something tells me I will have to wait half a year again, like last year, though this time they already have the measures of the house I do not own (according to this office's rules I do).
Oh, and
sevilemar and I finally bought our ticket home for the holidays, after trying to figure out the cheapest way. Which meant forty minutes queueing and a backache, oh and a headache because the woman in front of me smelled as if she hadn't seen a shower in a month. But now we got them and because we were too late the last cheap ticket was for the 6:40am train. So I have to get up at five. That sucks.
