Showing posts with label German tutors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German tutors. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 February 2009

My back now aches

Listening to: The killers - Human

I've been sat at my desk now for 5 hours? minus half an hour for bathroom trips and a dog walk about 30 minutes ago. I missed school today and probably did more work at home that I would have done there. Typical, ain't it? I ended up translating 60 German questions into English, and then answering ten. I doesn't sound like much to answer, but answering JUST them took me almost two hours!! ...I have 50 left, so that's like... another 10 hours of answering questions and flicking through dictionaries. Plus ten more french ones when we get them, although they don't take me as long because I don't have to faff about with word order much. Then I have another whole section (number 4) and three more parts of a section left of my German course to do, all before ~hopefully~ the middle of April at the latest. I want the course done by March though, then I have time to go and remember it all for May!

Shit, this is so much on my plate :(

I'm gunna drown in foreign-ness and strange words soon.
If it doesn't pay off now, in 2 years, or in chuffin' 20 years, I will not be best pleased.

They say if you work for something hard enough you'll get it.
I sure hope that's gunna work for me.

Wish me luck.

Now I need something to calm me down.
Have some pretty faces:

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Thursday, 19 February 2009

Music, and language confusion

Listening to: Nevada tan - Geht ab

Why is it that foreign music, in my case German, is always better than the majority of English? Even though we can't understand it? Well, some/most of it for me. I'm getting better at working it out. :) Yay. That's just my opinion, but of all the ones I've come across they're all that little bit different to our music. Meh, whatever.

Today was boring, as usual days are in school holidays. Didn't go to bed until around half two, and then got up needing a piss at about twelve. Had it not been so bright in my room, even with my BLACK curtains, I would have gone back to sleep. Watched Loose Women, which was probably the highlight of my day. I actually love that programme; daytime TV is amazing... say's a person who barely watches TV. Sceptic. After that I took it upon myself to actually do some work 'cause I've done crap all for the past week. I started working through section 3B of my German course (H) and then got bored and decided to do Test Paper 5, which I was meant to do at the end of 2E. I was amazingly happy when I could do it all, apart from about three phrases, without having to look stuff up! I AM actually learning something! Wooooop. And then I started my French questions, and got halfway through before I lost the feeling in my backside because my desk is so uncomfy to sit at. :/ It's really awkward and I have to sit on a really hard buffet.

I'm getting my languages mixed up now, too^^, not clever. In a French question I was trying to remember how to say "also", and I was like.. "no it's not auch its aussi". Just little things like that.. and I'm getting verbs mixed up, like I though machen was "to do" in French, when it's actually "to do" in German, and it's faire in French. Gah, confusing much?

But at least I'm more confident with German word order now. :D
*happy*

Monday, 16 February 2009

Incompetence

Listening to: Evanescence - Whisper

Most of today has been rather... boring so far. I was in the middle of copying out a bunch of French oral questions at about one, and then got interrupted and dragged on a walk into town. One good thing out of that though, was it got me a pasty, and we found this amazing old-fashioned sweet shop that sells pear-drops and jelly beans(!!), so I think I'll be visiting there more often. I swear, if you ever want something from me, within reason, just get me jelly beans and I'm all yours. ;D

Anyway, yeah, then we get back in about an hour and a bit later, sat down with coffee's and shit, and then mum checks her emails. Yesterday I emailed my German tutor asking her about the questions I need for my German oral, and she replied with like "ask the exam board". Gee, thanks, so if I hadn't emailed her, I would never have been told that little bit of oh-so-helpful info. I'll just, y'know, walking into the exam and ad-lib the whole thing. Hmm, 'cause that would work! ICS is lame. NEVER USE IT. Unless you are desperate, like I was.

Now I'm just sat in bed, with the laptop burning my knees whilst I wait until later when I have to make tea, two lasagnes; one veggie pour moi, and a non-veggie pour les autres. Difficult, well, no, but just a pain in the ass. They should just all turn veggie like me. ;D They'd all be soooo much healthier.

But yeah, I'm bored. Fun?