Not quite off to a running start
Jan. 25th, 2008 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serenissimaFor whatever reason, I've lost interest in LiveJournal lately. I don't think I've read Friends' posts since before the New Year, so if something major has happened in your life, I'm oblivious.
So what's new with me? Well... I signed up for a free weekly Spanish class here on the moonbase. It's way too easy for me, but it'll force me to talk in class, and speaking practice plus a brush-up on my vocabulary are what I really need. Also, I'm enrolled in a weekly Chinese class, conducted at the university, but not for credit. I have yet to determine how hard or easy I'll find that one. Both children and adults are in one class together, a situation I've not been in before, but all the child students seem to be well-behaved. I hope I don't get the two languages mixed up. That occasionally happened when I took Chinese before: I'd try to translate a word, and I'd come up with the Spanish, not the English.
But what about grad school? I'm finding it necessary to be out of town for four weeks this spring, one in February and three in April. I reluctantly acknowledged that being absent for four weeks does not set me up for making an A+ and impressing the professor. So I'm waiting on the "real" coursework until summer or fall. This also gives me a little more time to decide what I want to take.
I'm also trying to get more exercise, as you might surmise from my "Resolution" post last week. This week I've been slacking a little... I'll have to make up for that today and tomorrow.
So what's new with me? Well... I signed up for a free weekly Spanish class here on the moonbase. It's way too easy for me, but it'll force me to talk in class, and speaking practice plus a brush-up on my vocabulary are what I really need. Also, I'm enrolled in a weekly Chinese class, conducted at the university, but not for credit. I have yet to determine how hard or easy I'll find that one. Both children and adults are in one class together, a situation I've not been in before, but all the child students seem to be well-behaved. I hope I don't get the two languages mixed up. That occasionally happened when I took Chinese before: I'd try to translate a word, and I'd come up with the Spanish, not the English.
But what about grad school? I'm finding it necessary to be out of town for four weeks this spring, one in February and three in April. I reluctantly acknowledged that being absent for four weeks does not set me up for making an A+ and impressing the professor. So I'm waiting on the "real" coursework until summer or fall. This also gives me a little more time to decide what I want to take.
I'm also trying to get more exercise, as you might surmise from my "Resolution" post last week. This week I've been slacking a little... I'll have to make up for that today and tomorrow.
