Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3.
On Friday, I took the final test for my Korean class. It was difficult. There really were not very many easy questions and very few questions that I am sure I got correct. I need a 70% to pass. I could have gotten an 85% (probably not) and I could have gotten a 30%. I just have no idea. I had to write two essays one was on American food (여러분 나라 의음식문화) and the other was on American traditional medicine (여러분 나라 의 민간요법.) Since I know exactly fuck all about either of those subjects it ranked pretty high on the suck scale. For the food essay, I wrote about how there is no such thing as American food, that it is just the fusion of the food of other countries. For the medicine I wrote about how European traditional medicine was idiotic and counter-productive (bleeding and drilling holes in people's heads) but that the Plains Indians knew how to make effective medicines from flowers and plants. (Because I had no idea about any specifics on this last point, I added that unfortunately all these methods had been lost when the traditional Indian cultures died out/ were killed off.) I doubt either answer was what the teachers wanted but I am hoping that I'll get points for creativity (something that is not really encouraged in Korean classrooms.) I also wrote a page about each question and as a teacher I know that it is hard to give someone a grade lower that 50% to someone who wrote so much. Am I pandering? well them, I pander; I want my 70%, damnit!