A bit more background on the school thing. I've been studying German since the third grade, which means for fourteen years now and I have hated every single moment of it. I don't know if the language attracts spiteful and incompetent teachers or just turns them into misanthropic wrecks with no trace of humanity but my biggest issue with learning ( Read more... )

It's over. Done with.

After five painful years all my courses are finally completed. I still have a hard time believing it to be actually true. This last year of school has been nothing more than an uphill battle.

I cannot put to words how relieved I feel right now.

Freedom!

Work started on Monday, last exam was on Tuesday (German Economic Texts, so not going to pass it), and birthday is tomorrow. It just so happens that tomorrow is also a national holiday here in Finland, so I have the day off and N has promised to pamper me ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was robbed off my free Monday, and forced to wake at seven to go to school and listen to a lecture given by Manfred Dransfeld, the Executive Director of the German-Finnish Chamber of commerce. Sounds positively fascinating, doesn't it?

The first half an hour was absolute murder. He talked about the import and export between Germany and ( Read more... )

Life is looking up at the moment. Tuesday I went to see the doctor for the final time, and he declared me healthy. It's not cancer but benignant growth, and when he palpated my breasts again, he said that it felt smaller than the last time. They could have cut it out if I'd wanted it, but that would have resulted only in an ugly scar on the top of ( Read more... )

Oh right, school started a week ago on Monday. Currently, I have six hours of lessons in a week, which is wreaking havoc with my inner calender ( Read more... )

Right, I was supposed to find someone to proof-read my exchange report. So many things to do, so much to remember ( Read more... )

So here I am again. I experienced a little slump because I felt there was nothing to write. Everything I have to say about fandom has already been said by someone far more eloquent and better with grammar than me. And my RL issues are really of no interest to anyone ( Read more... )