First REAL week
So this was my first REAL week, with actual lessons and homework! *gasp*
For Events Catering we have a budget of £6 and have to prepare 3 different types of canapés and a cocktail with it next Tuesday. I hope the one I'm making for my group will be edible XD~
We also got to know about the more boring things we'll be doing like economics and finance, but to be fair they're taking into account that this won't be our main subject, so I think it won't be as scary as it first sounded.
Unfortunatley, I had a bit of a drama last Wednesday. You know I was happy about Japanese? Well, I could have started crying on the spot. Where do I start...?!
The Japanese course was for INTERMEDIATES. I was thinking: This is a university and surely they would have done something in one year, too. I hope I haven't forgot all of the Kanji, I feel bad about not revising during the holidays... My sensei-to-be asked me a few questions, how old I was, if I had siblings... the usual, just to get a picture of how much I knew. She turned to the class (OK, 6 people) and asked "can we do that?".
The answer was "no".
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And then she said I needed a Japanese name. I couldn't make up a name on the spot!! A name she insisted I used in class. Eventually I settled with "Yuriko", because of my "Susan: from the Hebrew meaning Lily" keychain.
And we had to get up and introduce ourselves, OK, but I didn't have to stand there and find a person who has the same Hiragana in their name as me, it would have been OK somebody had actually been able to read them.
And I felt sorry for the other new guy, he needed a Japanese name too and all my suggestions weren't good enough ("Shuji" is a great name! XD~~) and he didn't get the jokes the teacher was making (Hideyoshi?! COME ON! Knowledge of Japanese history ftw!).
And I would have to buy the book, which is one of those ugly ones for business men who want to learn a couple of phrases and every sentence has the word kaisha in it.
We repeated a dialogue a million times, not sure if the others really understood it, because they had questions, but they went unanswered.
So on my way home, I was in a rage. It wasn't the other's fault, I was just angry at the situation as a whole. I didn't like the teacher, I didn't like the book, I wasn't prepared to buy it for the course, I didn't want to learn how to read again, I didn't want to sit at university for three hours waiting for the two hour course that finished at seven when it was already dark, I didn't want to be bored.
And thanks to those Japanese names, I don't know what their real names are and I didn't dare ask in class, because the teacher was scary, too! She reminded me of Mrs Ha in Korea, whom I was deathly afraid of afterward.
So at home, I thought. I thought hard. It was this question:
Was French really that bad?
So tomorrow, I'm going to a French class. On Thursday morning I went to the Language Centre Office and told them that I'd rather do French than doing the crap I mentioned above. The man gave me a form in French, did a little interview with me and I'm now in a course. I don't care if I have to revise in French. I realise that a lot of vocabulary has been forced out by Japanese words and I could do with basic grammar I never got the hang of later because when I first started with 11 I was lazy and couldn't be bothered.
I was also considering Italian or Chinese, but both languages aren't available this year. And I didn't want to do Spanish...
I just hope my mother doesn't get the idea of writing to me in French now.
Now: Interesting bit.
Yesterday, I watched one of the programmes I record on NHK news. Naturally I record those on pop culture and such, and this one mentioned a weekly magazine called "Comic Beam". They also introduced a couple of manga they publish in it, including one named "Thermae Romae".
I don't get this often, these days when I read about new manga releases none of them really capture my interest, but the idea of an ancient Roman ending up in modern Japan because of bath houses was just too hilarious. And the manga-ka, Mari Yamazaki, she seemed so intelligent, so I can imagine theres a lot of research done for it and I really liked the artwork and now I really, really, really want to read it. Like, NOW.
(Too bad the Language Centre only does modern languages, I would have done Latin again, too!) The only thing I might possibly want to do more right now is Tsuzuki see the Hetalia film.
I'm off to prepare a bit for tomorrow.
Since today is a Sunday, I didn't have uni today, after all! (It's German Union Day)
FABRICATE DIEM PVNC!
COLLE CERRITA EST
For Events Catering we have a budget of £6 and have to prepare 3 different types of canapés and a cocktail with it next Tuesday. I hope the one I'm making for my group will be edible XD~
We also got to know about the more boring things we'll be doing like economics and finance, but to be fair they're taking into account that this won't be our main subject, so I think it won't be as scary as it first sounded.
Unfortunatley, I had a bit of a drama last Wednesday. You know I was happy about Japanese? Well, I could have started crying on the spot. Where do I start...?!
The Japanese course was for INTERMEDIATES. I was thinking: This is a university and surely they would have done something in one year, too. I hope I haven't forgot all of the Kanji, I feel bad about not revising during the holidays... My sensei-to-be asked me a few questions, how old I was, if I had siblings... the usual, just to get a picture of how much I knew. She turned to the class (OK, 6 people) and asked "can we do that?".
The answer was "no".
0______ox
And then she said I needed a Japanese name. I couldn't make up a name on the spot!! A name she insisted I used in class. Eventually I settled with "Yuriko", because of my "Susan: from the Hebrew meaning Lily" keychain.
And we had to get up and introduce ourselves, OK, but I didn't have to stand there and find a person who has the same Hiragana in their name as me, it would have been OK somebody had actually been able to read them.
And I felt sorry for the other new guy, he needed a Japanese name too and all my suggestions weren't good enough ("Shuji" is a great name! XD~~) and he didn't get the jokes the teacher was making (Hideyoshi?! COME ON! Knowledge of Japanese history ftw!).
And I would have to buy the book, which is one of those ugly ones for business men who want to learn a couple of phrases and every sentence has the word kaisha in it.
We repeated a dialogue a million times, not sure if the others really understood it, because they had questions, but they went unanswered.
So on my way home, I was in a rage. It wasn't the other's fault, I was just angry at the situation as a whole. I didn't like the teacher, I didn't like the book, I wasn't prepared to buy it for the course, I didn't want to learn how to read again, I didn't want to sit at university for three hours waiting for the two hour course that finished at seven when it was already dark, I didn't want to be bored.
And thanks to those Japanese names, I don't know what their real names are and I didn't dare ask in class, because the teacher was scary, too! She reminded me of Mrs Ha in Korea, whom I was deathly afraid of afterward.
So at home, I thought. I thought hard. It was this question:
Was French really that bad?
So tomorrow, I'm going to a French class. On Thursday morning I went to the Language Centre Office and told them that I'd rather do French than doing the crap I mentioned above. The man gave me a form in French, did a little interview with me and I'm now in a course. I don't care if I have to revise in French. I realise that a lot of vocabulary has been forced out by Japanese words and I could do with basic grammar I never got the hang of later because when I first started with 11 I was lazy and couldn't be bothered.
I was also considering Italian or Chinese, but both languages aren't available this year. And I didn't want to do Spanish...
I just hope my mother doesn't get the idea of writing to me in French now.
Now: Interesting bit.
Yesterday, I watched one of the programmes I record on NHK news. Naturally I record those on pop culture and such, and this one mentioned a weekly magazine called "Comic Beam". They also introduced a couple of manga they publish in it, including one named "Thermae Romae".
I don't get this often, these days when I read about new manga releases none of them really capture my interest, but the idea of an ancient Roman ending up in modern Japan because of bath houses was just too hilarious. And the manga-ka, Mari Yamazaki, she seemed so intelligent, so I can imagine theres a lot of research done for it and I really liked the artwork and now I really, really, really want to read it. Like, NOW.
(Too bad the Language Centre only does modern languages, I would have done Latin again, too!) The only thing I might possibly want to do more right now is Tsuzuki see the Hetalia film.
I'm off to prepare a bit for tomorrow.
Since today is a Sunday, I didn't have uni today, after all! (It's German Union Day)
FABRICATE DIEM PVNC!
COLLE CERRITA EST