I wrote this bit on Friday, but then I got distracted and didn't update:
It's Friday! Yay! I'm doing a happy dance in my head.
I've unloaded the backpack for the weekend, and I took my French literature test today instead of tomorrow. For some reason, it takes a lot to get me to take a test if it's open for three days. Usually what happens is that I tell myself, "Hey, I'll take it on the last day, and I'll study loads for it!" Hypothetically, it would work. Realistically, it doesn't happen. Today, though, I took my test, and I got a 93 on the written part. And I didn't even procrastinate this time. I'm feeling particularly big-headed right now.
However, this doesn't change the facts that: FRENCH IS REALLY HARD.
Now it's Wednesday. I got my paper back today for French composition, and I got a much better grade than I had been expecting. Woot.
In my literature class, we're discussing Cyrano de Bergerac. I'm quite taken with the story: It's about a man who is talented in every way. He is very interested in the arts, he talks fancy words, come up with poems on the spot, a hero for his country, and he is utterly a romantic. His only flaw is his nose. It's long and big, and it keeps him from the love of his life. While I was reading it, I remembered a movie that I had seen years ago with Steve Martin, called Roxanne. Turns out, it's a modern retelling of Cyrano.
Yesterday, Kyle and I finished an awesome-sauce TV series called Avatar: The Last Airbender. I promise, it has absolutely nothing to the blue CGI aliens on Pandora. It's much better than that movie. By the end, I was yanking on Kyle's arm because the anticipation of the plot line was just killing me. It was amazing! I highly recommend it.
Also, today is the day that I would have been going into the MTC had I not had it deferred. It's so surreal to realize where my life would have been if certain events didn't turn it in a different direction. I'm glad it was delayed, because I feel so utterly and thoroughly unprepared.
3 comments:
You'd be studying Dutch right now, instead of French! Besides, the deferral gave you the opportunity finish your French classes before your mind is messed up by the Dutch. And think how very much more prepared you'll be in another month or so!
There's also a movie for that TV thing you watched, and it came out the same time as the blue aliens, so it was confusingish which is which, but they're different. Heard it wasn't that good, though.
The movie doesn't hold a candle to the series. Don't judge a book by its cover.
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