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tenlittlebullets) wrote2006-11-09 07:27 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2006-11-09 07:27 pm
Eponine, what's wrong? I feel there's something wet upon your pants.
Tra la. Haven't updated in a while, have I? Work's going well so far--I'm glad I got a job at a local business instead of a giant, soulless corporation(TM). The only problem is that I want to adopt half the pet shop, most notably this incredibly dimwitted cockatiel whom I have nicknamed Engels. (One of his fellow cockatiels is named Marx.)
Italian class, by the way, is made of suck. I think this teacher is the second-most-incompetent language teacher I've ever had: worse than the nice but generally ineffective Russian teacher, but not quite as bad as the long-term German sub who tried to teach us Spanish instead. She just sort of throws stuff at us and doesn't seem to notice whether we absorb anything or not, and she's way too focused on how to use the language in everyday situations rather than understand how it works. And she does it by hard memorization of various phrases, which irritates me to no end. And... I dunno, she just doesn't seem to be very interested in the class.
This in direct contrast to my Latin teacher, who seems intent on giving us every skeleton key to how the language works that he can think of. In fact, he's just made of win in every possible way: he loves charts, goes into long rambles about linguistics at the slightest provocation, and encourages us to read ahead in the book. I don't think I've ever had a single teacher who told me to read ahead; most of them give you the fisheye and assume you're being a smart-aleck somehow. I just... gah, I love that man so much.
Am being terrifically lazy about NaNo. Still at 1500 words, in fact.
Italian class, by the way, is made of suck. I think this teacher is the second-most-incompetent language teacher I've ever had: worse than the nice but generally ineffective Russian teacher, but not quite as bad as the long-term German sub who tried to teach us Spanish instead. She just sort of throws stuff at us and doesn't seem to notice whether we absorb anything or not, and she's way too focused on how to use the language in everyday situations rather than understand how it works. And she does it by hard memorization of various phrases, which irritates me to no end. And... I dunno, she just doesn't seem to be very interested in the class.
This in direct contrast to my Latin teacher, who seems intent on giving us every skeleton key to how the language works that he can think of. In fact, he's just made of win in every possible way: he loves charts, goes into long rambles about linguistics at the slightest provocation, and encourages us to read ahead in the book. I don't think I've ever had a single teacher who told me to read ahead; most of them give you the fisheye and assume you're being a smart-aleck somehow. I just... gah, I love that man so much.
Am being terrifically lazy about NaNo. Still at 1500 words, in fact.