i don't get it
Spanish class resumed today. I...strangely don't like it. I don't understand, I can't think of a reason why, but I just get this feeling that I don't like it. =\ It's not the learning more Spanish that I don't like, it's the class.
From January until half of February, my teacher was this really nice Spanish lady who conducted things very casually. We were learning a lot, but it didn't feel like a class, you know? There were just 9 of us in January then 7 sometime in February, and it all felt good. Very casual, everyone knew each other...we weren't after impressing each other with our knowledge, we were just learning together. I mean, during exercises and when our teacher left us alone, we would sometimes work on them like we were one group (she did encourage us to work with our partners, except we didn't lol). We weren't close in the sense that we knew what was happening in each other's lives, but we were comfortable with one another.
This one...I dunno. There's 14 in the class, and around 8 or 9 of them know each other because that's their block. We stopped for one session because there weren't enough students. And now from our previous class of 7, there's just 3 of us. :( And I somehow felt those people who knew each other seemed...clique-y? Well, it's not as if they're excluding the rest of us and ignoring us, but I just felt they were tight and I was this outsider.
Honestly, I don't know if it's just because I was used to the small class and I'm missing my other classmates, but I just don't like this feeling that I don't feel like going to class because of the environment. I do felt like that before, but it was more of because I didn't like waking up early, but never because I didn't like the class. I even resisted the urge to absent myself because I didn't want to miss anything. Now it's just...blaaahh.
Maybe I'm just being too judgemental. It is just the first day. I hope my feelings and thoughts change as the days go by. This is the first time I actually thought of when my last day of class was going to be. =\
That said, how do you say 'I relax by reading a book' -- me relajo ___ leer un libro?
From January until half of February, my teacher was this really nice Spanish lady who conducted things very casually. We were learning a lot, but it didn't feel like a class, you know? There were just 9 of us in January then 7 sometime in February, and it all felt good. Very casual, everyone knew each other...we weren't after impressing each other with our knowledge, we were just learning together. I mean, during exercises and when our teacher left us alone, we would sometimes work on them like we were one group (she did encourage us to work with our partners, except we didn't lol). We weren't close in the sense that we knew what was happening in each other's lives, but we were comfortable with one another.
This one...I dunno. There's 14 in the class, and around 8 or 9 of them know each other because that's their block. We stopped for one session because there weren't enough students. And now from our previous class of 7, there's just 3 of us. :( And I somehow felt those people who knew each other seemed...clique-y? Well, it's not as if they're excluding the rest of us and ignoring us, but I just felt they were tight and I was this outsider.
Honestly, I don't know if it's just because I was used to the small class and I'm missing my other classmates, but I just don't like this feeling that I don't feel like going to class because of the environment. I do felt like that before, but it was more of because I didn't like waking up early, but never because I didn't like the class. I even resisted the urge to absent myself because I didn't want to miss anything. Now it's just...blaaahh.
Maybe I'm just being too judgemental. It is just the first day. I hope my feelings and thoughts change as the days go by. This is the first time I actually thought of when my last day of class was going to be. =\
That said, how do you say 'I relax by reading a book' -- me relajo ___ leer un libro?