first couple of days of uni 8)
I've had my back X-rayed and hopefully when I visit the doctor again I'll find out the hell went wrong here and how to fix it. I wish she'd hurry up; I'm not looking forward to theater shenanigans with a munted back. :/ At least I'm really light on textbooks this sem: Only one of my classes has a student notes book and it's not too thick (that's what she said).
First scriptwriting ("Scoring the Performing Body") lecture was basically a three hour, sometimes very existential ramble. :/ Although I am kind of glad that our lecturer didn't like the LOTR films either (sometimes I feel like the only one in Wellington), and his story about his cat's movement ("nothing... nothing... nothing... GO!") reminded me of orchestra. It's way too easy to tune out because so much of it is actually nonsense. Hopefully it gets better from here. I'm a bit nervous about the assignments because he said he doesn't want us "writing Shortland Street [a very long-running NZ soap set in an Auckland hospital], because they talk about nothing" - stupid shipping drama and talking about nothing is kind of what I do, whoops. First assignment is a one page script due next week; we'll see what I pull out.
Also, there's a kid from Yale in the class. In the words of one of my friends, "Why would you come from Yale to this shithole?!"
I really loved the first applied linguistics ("Language Teaching Methodology") lecture though! Lots of talking about the meta of language teaching and sharing of experiences of language learning. And there's a huge variety of people in this class :D A Turkish guy, a half-Japanese half-Pakeha girl, that one deaf guy from my theater class last year (I love watching his NZSL interpreters, and it's really cool to have a perspective from a language that isn't a spoken one)... The class is like a third Malaysian instead of half like ALIN 202 was last year, which I was kind of surprised by! 201 isn't a prereq or anything but 202 does make reference to 201 material and I figured most people do it in order.
(It's dorky, but I really like how diverse second language ed is compared to film/theater, because I'm so used to walking into the room and being one of, at most, three people in the room who aren't white.
(Mildly related: Today my theater director quoted someone saying that the two great theaters of the world are Russian and English, then asked why that author would say that. Thinking the author was just from one of those countries and really patriotic, I asked where she was from. "She's American, I think. It's very Western-centric - that's what you were going to say, right?" Oops, I've become that student, after I spent an assignment last year railing on the ethnocentrism of the theater course and I rambled on my third year theater class application about how I'm a minority in like three ways and not represented on stage and how sick I am of casting notices asking for Pakeha or Maori/PI actors.)
My theater class this sem looks good! You know, apart from the rehearsals until 10PM three times a week and whole day Saturday rehearsals (work will be so pleased). At least I know now I absolutely cannot app into any more games or any more characters at WR. BUT I like most of the people in the class and I really like our director having worked with him last year. We're doing Summerfolk, and we have a legit Russian in the class so we'll actually be able to say all the names, ahaha. (I don't know why I have so much trouble wrapping my head around Russian names when I'm perfectly fine with Japanese names.) Hopefully I like the play - I should really start reading it...
And finally: Yay for St. Pat's Town winning McEvedy!! I know that as a Girls' girl who did take a class at Coll I should probably be rooting for our brother school, but damnit, all the douchebags from my primary school went to Coll and my first boyfriend/best friend was a Pat's boy so I've always identified more with Pat's (one of my favorite pages on Facebook is "hanging up your St. Pat's uniform after a hard day of being a champion").
First scriptwriting ("Scoring the Performing Body") lecture was basically a three hour, sometimes very existential ramble. :/ Although I am kind of glad that our lecturer didn't like the LOTR films either (sometimes I feel like the only one in Wellington), and his story about his cat's movement ("nothing... nothing... nothing... GO!") reminded me of orchestra. It's way too easy to tune out because so much of it is actually nonsense. Hopefully it gets better from here. I'm a bit nervous about the assignments because he said he doesn't want us "writing Shortland Street [a very long-running NZ soap set in an Auckland hospital], because they talk about nothing" - stupid shipping drama and talking about nothing is kind of what I do, whoops. First assignment is a one page script due next week; we'll see what I pull out.
Also, there's a kid from Yale in the class. In the words of one of my friends, "Why would you come from Yale to this shithole?!"
I really loved the first applied linguistics ("Language Teaching Methodology") lecture though! Lots of talking about the meta of language teaching and sharing of experiences of language learning. And there's a huge variety of people in this class :D A Turkish guy, a half-Japanese half-Pakeha girl, that one deaf guy from my theater class last year (I love watching his NZSL interpreters, and it's really cool to have a perspective from a language that isn't a spoken one)... The class is like a third Malaysian instead of half like ALIN 202 was last year, which I was kind of surprised by! 201 isn't a prereq or anything but 202 does make reference to 201 material and I figured most people do it in order.
(It's dorky, but I really like how diverse second language ed is compared to film/theater, because I'm so used to walking into the room and being one of, at most, three people in the room who aren't white.
(Mildly related: Today my theater director quoted someone saying that the two great theaters of the world are Russian and English, then asked why that author would say that. Thinking the author was just from one of those countries and really patriotic, I asked where she was from. "She's American, I think. It's very Western-centric - that's what you were going to say, right?" Oops, I've become that student, after I spent an assignment last year railing on the ethnocentrism of the theater course and I rambled on my third year theater class application about how I'm a minority in like three ways and not represented on stage and how sick I am of casting notices asking for Pakeha or Maori/PI actors.)
My theater class this sem looks good! You know, apart from the rehearsals until 10PM three times a week and whole day Saturday rehearsals (work will be so pleased). At least I know now I absolutely cannot app into any more games or any more characters at WR. BUT I like most of the people in the class and I really like our director having worked with him last year. We're doing Summerfolk, and we have a legit Russian in the class so we'll actually be able to say all the names, ahaha. (I don't know why I have so much trouble wrapping my head around Russian names when I'm perfectly fine with Japanese names.) Hopefully I like the play - I should really start reading it...
And finally: Yay for St. Pat's Town winning McEvedy!! I know that as a Girls' girl who did take a class at Coll I should probably be rooting for our brother school, but damnit, all the douchebags from my primary school went to Coll and my first boyfriend/best friend was a Pat's boy so I've always identified more with Pat's (one of my favorite pages on Facebook is "hanging up your St. Pat's uniform after a hard day of being a champion").