Have not heard anything re: study-abroad application, so I'm assuming no news is good news.
I just finished outlining an oral presentation I have to give on Balzac's La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote, which I have to discuss individually with the teacher today and then present on Wednesday. I am totally sulking about this presentation, because we spent exactly two classes on Hernani and didn't even have any homework on it (besides "read it and think about these questions"), and now our first two major assignments are on Balzac. SULK SULK SULK. Not that I have anything against Balzac, but Hugo is totally getting shafted in his favor, and I would much rather have written about the Battle of Hernani than about the role of marriage in La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote. Oh well. Unless the teacher totally nixes it, I'm going to make it all about the epic battle of ideals between Bonapartists and the bourgeoisie. (Brief meteoric glory followed by utter ruin vs. boring I-guess-I'm-happy stability: FIGHT.)
The upside is that our first essay is just an expansion of the presentation, so all I have to do is pad it to five pages with bullshit and quotes from the marriage section of the Civil Code.
I do suspect I'm not quite so well-instructed in French as the rest of the class, but I make up for it because they don't really talk unless the prof calls on them, whereas I keep interrupting the proceedings to fangirl Gautier's red waistcoat. Yeah, um. <____<
I just finished outlining an oral presentation I have to give on Balzac's La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote, which I have to discuss individually with the teacher today and then present on Wednesday. I am totally sulking about this presentation, because we spent exactly two classes on Hernani and didn't even have any homework on it (besides "read it and think about these questions"), and now our first two major assignments are on Balzac. SULK SULK SULK. Not that I have anything against Balzac, but Hugo is totally getting shafted in his favor, and I would much rather have written about the Battle of Hernani than about the role of marriage in La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote. Oh well. Unless the teacher totally nixes it, I'm going to make it all about the epic battle of ideals between Bonapartists and the bourgeoisie. (Brief meteoric glory followed by utter ruin vs. boring I-guess-I'm-happy stability: FIGHT.)
The upside is that our first essay is just an expansion of the presentation, so all I have to do is pad it to five pages with bullshit and quotes from the marriage section of the Civil Code.
I do suspect I'm not quite so well-instructed in French as the rest of the class, but I make up for it because they don't really talk unless the prof calls on them, whereas I keep interrupting the proceedings to fangirl Gautier's red waistcoat. Yeah, um. <____<
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