These past weeks, I've felt a growing need to sit down in a large lecture hall and learn about supply and demand, opportunity costs, the hazardous effects of minimum wage! Ahhhh, just typing it out makes me want to go back to the classrooms filled with the economic minds of tomorrow. What I'm saying is that I miss real school. Real school! Real school where I had the capability to sit down and learn fun facts that actually matter! I'm so tired of learning grammar rule after grammar rule.
"You can use this tense when you are speaking about this, but uhh, sorry here are the exceptions to that rule." Subjunctive, conditional, passé simple, pronouns, prepositions...PLEASE STOP!!!!!!!!!!!
At the beginning of the year, I remember thinking, I would totally be able to become awesome at the French language and then one day teach people these rules about grammar. But, when I think about possibly taking another French grammar class in the future, I think I spit up a little in my mouth.
In some ways it's a relief, at least I can check French teacher off the list of possible things to do with my life.
Today as I was studying (haha, flipping through the pages of my binder, skimming, really. What? No mom, yeah I studied...haha, no I studied today I promise....huh?), I was thinking, "wheennnn willll thissssss evverrrrr ennnddddddddddddddd??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Torture, I tell you. TORTURE!
I also realized that my level of French has reached a pretty good level, still not perfect, but pretty good. I mean, I can totally communicate, and if I come back to live here (which, oh yeah, I want to), I'll be able to survive. I'm surviving now, right? Right.
So, au revoir French classes. Hello summa summa summa time.
I should probably go to bed now.
2 comments:
i love reading your blog! i'm glad your classes are over. definitely let me know when you're back in the US because I'd LOVE to see you!!! xox
Or as Adam Smith said the rules of justice are like a grammar, clear and precise...
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