Rushed
Darn, it's weird to have class on Monday but not on Wednesday...How long has it been since the "move holidays to the nearest Monday" thing been implemented, anyway? Somehow, it feels like forever... >.> But I'm kinda glad to get a rest day in the middle of the week!
I won't have any classes this week, but I'll still report to the office Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, so nothing's changed there. I really want to finish this before my birthday! If all goes well, I'll be done the week before my birthday ^_^
It's so weird, I just started last week, and I'm already looking forward to the end >.< Maaa...It's actually because of my birthday that I'm counting days. I don't want to go there on my birthday. I want to rest. And go home, maybe.
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Classes today were weird.
We didn't have an oral exam thing in Japanese class, after all. Or did I just miss it...? *shrugs* not graded, anyway. Our test papers were returned, though, and I got a perfect score, yay! lol, I'm so weird, being kinda happy about this ;P
BUT! Our teacher made an announcement that kinda scares me. He said that starting next meeting, he's not gonna speak in English in the classroom anymore!! And everything will be in Hiragana!!! O.o omg, I feel so nervous about that! I really shouldn't think too much about it, after all, not graded!!! for me, at least!
During break time, for some reason I spent more than I expected looking for where in the Bible certain quotes came from! And the darn school computer didn't like me, it didn't save my work, so I had to do it twice. @.@
Then I realized I hadn't read the short stories we had to read for today! Stupid! So I had to read them both in less than an hour, while eating lunch and wrestling with my printer (at least it works with this laptop now!), and I ended up late to Literature class.
Thank goodness our teacher hadn't given the test yet, but she started immediately after I arrived! (did I mention she was in my batch, but she graduated already? and we kinda know each other? >.> I hoped she'd forgotten me, but.. grrr...) Then I blanked out and had no clue what the heck the authors' and characters' names were, when I'd just read the stories! >.< Darnit! But whatever, it's just a little quiz... I would've preferred it if she'd asked for summaries of the stories! Instead, she gave a high-school-ish test... oh well...
Then after a short discussion on two of the three selections she'd told us to read see?!?! I already said she was trying to fit in too many selections!!! We don't have enough time for all of them, hello!!!, she told us to write our own version of "How to Talk to Your Mother: Notes" (one of the selections). In 10 minutes. Uhm. Right. But I didn't want to take it home, so whatever, I rushed to finish it, anyway. I went back about 5 years. (By the way, the story is told with years before short parts, in reverse chronological order. It's kinda interesting, actually.) I don't know what the heck I wrote anymore. I just wrote whatever. I think it was kinda revealing though.
Oh. I almost forgot. She called me by name, about three times in the class today! Once to read the poem aloud, urgh. Maybe because of the "dramatic reading" we did in class last time.. And darnit, when I passed the stupid story thing I'd written, she called me back (I was rushing because I had another class right after that one) and asked me if we'd been together in CSO (Council of Student Organizations). Yes, darnit. Then I turned away again, and rushed off. I realized later that might've been a bit rude. She is my teacher now, after all. Oops.
Then I rushed to the third floor of another building, and thankfully the class hadn't started yet. I rushed to the washroom (I'd felt the need to go for about half an hour already) and when I came back, our professor was apparently late, so the substitute asked us to write down what we'd learned in class so far. As I stared down at the slip of paper, I thought I haven't learned anything in this class! He never discussed anything except the introduction to the course, and it's now the 6th meeting during the 4th week of class! Uhm. So. I just wrote down what I remembered from the paper we were supposed to pass today.
Because most of us had written "social justice", the sub asked us what it was. Uhm. Not discussed in class. So he explained something about justice. And that was the first time I'd actually really learned something new in class!
He explained the verse, "if someone slaps you on the right cheek turn the other cheek". It's always been explained as "just endure hardships", "don't fight back", etc, right? Well, for the first time, someone explained it to us in a different way. He said :
"Jews use the back of the hand, not the palm, to slap other people. So, if you're slapped on the right cheek, if you turn the other cheek, you're actually preventing that person from slapping you again! And that's what justice means."
O.o Really?!?! I think I'll research some more about that...why can't he have been our professor?! Our prof doesn't teach us at all! but then, the substitute was kinda too perky and active and loud for me...>.>
Some time later, our professor arrived, and we were supposed to watch a movie, but for some reason, he couldn't get it to play. He didn't even discuss anything. Just...I don't know. He told annecdotes about how his friend was caught driving drunk, beating the red light, and driving w/o a license all at once. And because our teacher was late for a mass he was supposed to con-celebrate, he gave the police some money to let them go. Uhm. Sir, you're a priest. Why did you do that?! And what was the point of that story, anyway?! He bribed them, and then what? He said something about corruption, but didn't that just promote giving money to the police to get out of trouble?! Totally don't get it!!!
Maybe the teachers (and I) were in a rush because this is the only time we'll meet this week...
After class, I still rushed around, for some reason. Even now, I feel so tense and rushed. And I think I'll leave now so I'll get enough sleep. Oyasumi!
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Oh, I just have to point to this radio show hosted by Tegoshi and subbed by newshfan. I laughed so much! Tegoshi knows no fear!!! >.< Or maybe he's counting on Ryo's love for him to keep him alive and protect him from everyone, including Ryo's own wrath XD I have a feeling that if anyone else had said he was Ryo's "love-love boyfriend" he'd be dead within a week! XD
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And I finally finished the Nazca drawings thing Tegoshi did! Uhm, I was not moved. Wendy was right, it's kinda technical and not really moving. Few comments:
1. They started working in a DESERT, in peru, where it hasn't rained in more than a hundred years, and where there's almost never any wind, at 11AM?!?! Aren't they gonna get severe sunburns?!?! No wonder Tegoshi got so dark!
2. When Tegoshi said "helicopter", I suddenly remembered "All go to helicopter sky"!!!! XD Ohhh, Jin and his Jingrish!!!! ;P I miss Baka-nishi's baka-ness! >D
I'm sorry this got so long >.< I just felt so rushed the whole day, even writing about this made me tense again. And I said too much. >.< I really should leave now...! XD and it's just about time they make us leave anyway...I meant to leave at least 30mins early!!! darn I'm so verbose!>.<
I won't have any classes this week, but I'll still report to the office Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, so nothing's changed there. I really want to finish this before my birthday! If all goes well, I'll be done the week before my birthday ^_^
It's so weird, I just started last week, and I'm already looking forward to the end >.< Maaa...It's actually because of my birthday that I'm counting days. I don't want to go there on my birthday. I want to rest. And go home, maybe.
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Classes today were weird.
We didn't have an oral exam thing in Japanese class, after all. Or did I just miss it...? *shrugs* not graded, anyway. Our test papers were returned, though, and I got a perfect score, yay! lol, I'm so weird, being kinda happy about this ;P
BUT! Our teacher made an announcement that kinda scares me. He said that starting next meeting, he's not gonna speak in English in the classroom anymore!! And everything will be in Hiragana!!! O.o omg, I feel so nervous about that! I really shouldn't think too much about it, after all, not graded!!! for me, at least!
During break time, for some reason I spent more than I expected looking for where in the Bible certain quotes came from! And the darn school computer didn't like me, it didn't save my work, so I had to do it twice. @.@
Then I realized I hadn't read the short stories we had to read for today! Stupid! So I had to read them both in less than an hour, while eating lunch and wrestling with my printer (at least it works with this laptop now!), and I ended up late to Literature class.
Thank goodness our teacher hadn't given the test yet, but she started immediately after I arrived! (did I mention she was in my batch, but she graduated already? and we kinda know each other? >.> I hoped she'd forgotten me, but.. grrr...) Then I blanked out and had no clue what the heck the authors' and characters' names were, when I'd just read the stories! >.< Darnit! But whatever, it's just a little quiz... I would've preferred it if she'd asked for summaries of the stories! Instead, she gave a high-school-ish test... oh well...
Then after a short discussion on two of the three selections she'd told us to read see?!?! I already said she was trying to fit in too many selections!!! We don't have enough time for all of them, hello!!!, she told us to write our own version of "How to Talk to Your Mother: Notes" (one of the selections). In 10 minutes. Uhm. Right. But I didn't want to take it home, so whatever, I rushed to finish it, anyway. I went back about 5 years. (By the way, the story is told with years before short parts, in reverse chronological order. It's kinda interesting, actually.) I don't know what the heck I wrote anymore. I just wrote whatever. I think it was kinda revealing though.
Oh. I almost forgot. She called me by name, about three times in the class today! Once to read the poem aloud, urgh. Maybe because of the "dramatic reading" we did in class last time.. And darnit, when I passed the stupid story thing I'd written, she called me back (I was rushing because I had another class right after that one) and asked me if we'd been together in CSO (Council of Student Organizations). Yes, darnit. Then I turned away again, and rushed off. I realized later that might've been a bit rude. She is my teacher now, after all. Oops.
Then I rushed to the third floor of another building, and thankfully the class hadn't started yet. I rushed to the washroom (I'd felt the need to go for about half an hour already) and when I came back, our professor was apparently late, so the substitute asked us to write down what we'd learned in class so far. As I stared down at the slip of paper, I thought I haven't learned anything in this class! He never discussed anything except the introduction to the course, and it's now the 6th meeting during the 4th week of class! Uhm. So. I just wrote down what I remembered from the paper we were supposed to pass today.
Because most of us had written "social justice", the sub asked us what it was. Uhm. Not discussed in class. So he explained something about justice. And that was the first time I'd actually really learned something new in class!
He explained the verse, "if someone slaps you on the right cheek turn the other cheek". It's always been explained as "just endure hardships", "don't fight back", etc, right? Well, for the first time, someone explained it to us in a different way. He said :
"Jews use the back of the hand, not the palm, to slap other people. So, if you're slapped on the right cheek, if you turn the other cheek, you're actually preventing that person from slapping you again! And that's what justice means."
O.o Really?!?! I think I'll research some more about that...why can't he have been our professor?! Our prof doesn't teach us at all! but then, the substitute was kinda too perky and active and loud for me...>.>
Some time later, our professor arrived, and we were supposed to watch a movie, but for some reason, he couldn't get it to play. He didn't even discuss anything. Just...I don't know. He told annecdotes about how his friend was caught driving drunk, beating the red light, and driving w/o a license all at once. And because our teacher was late for a mass he was supposed to con-celebrate, he gave the police some money to let them go. Uhm. Sir, you're a priest. Why did you do that?! And what was the point of that story, anyway?! He bribed them, and then what? He said something about corruption, but didn't that just promote giving money to the police to get out of trouble?! Totally don't get it!!!
Maybe the teachers (and I) were in a rush because this is the only time we'll meet this week...
After class, I still rushed around, for some reason. Even now, I feel so tense and rushed. And I think I'll leave now so I'll get enough sleep. Oyasumi!
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Oh, I just have to point to this radio show hosted by Tegoshi and subbed by newshfan. I laughed so much! Tegoshi knows no fear!!! >.< Or maybe he's counting on Ryo's love for him to keep him alive and protect him from everyone, including Ryo's own wrath XD I have a feeling that if anyone else had said he was Ryo's "love-love boyfriend" he'd be dead within a week! XD
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And I finally finished the Nazca drawings thing Tegoshi did! Uhm, I was not moved. Wendy was right, it's kinda technical and not really moving. Few comments:
1. They started working in a DESERT, in peru, where it hasn't rained in more than a hundred years, and where there's almost never any wind, at 11AM?!?! Aren't they gonna get severe sunburns?!?! No wonder Tegoshi got so dark!
2. When Tegoshi said "helicopter", I suddenly remembered "All go to helicopter sky"!!!! XD Ohhh, Jin and his Jingrish!!!! ;P I miss Baka-nishi's baka-ness! >D
I'm sorry this got so long >.< I just felt so rushed the whole day, even writing about this made me tense again. And I said too much. >.< I really should leave now...! XD and it's just about time they make us leave anyway...I meant to leave at least 30mins early!!! darn I'm so verbose!>.<