Yesterday was one big rush. I tried to cram in York University’s Open Day in between lunch and my driving lesson…not a good idea, since it took us over 2 hours to get there and back. Who knew it was so far away from my house?! :sick:
Anyway, so we walked in, sat down and listened to a couple of mini lectures. One of the guys said that 10% of the grade is assessed on speaking. Why, I have absolutely no idea. Since I’m not assessed on speaking now, why do it over the next three years?! I don’t get it. And it’s not even proper speaking, it’s contributing to discussions…how the hell can they assess that? I can just picture having someone in my group who talks all the time or something and doesn’t let anyone else say anything…blergh.
So the next guy starts talking, and hands out a couple of poems in Old Norse. On Vikings. I swear, it was barely the same alphabet! I was like, ‘What the hell is this?!’ But I’m open minded, so I decided to give the guy a fair chance, atlhough he didn’t change my opinion, and he talked about Vikings in the present tense, which certainly didn’t help. Plus, a lot of the things he said were complete crap. I was going to argue but since I was in a room with lots of people and he seemed like a really nice guy despite everything, I decided not to.
So it turns out you have to do at least 1 module of literature in a foreign language (either Old Norse, Latin, Spanish, German, French or Italian I think). Guess I should’ve read the course details better…because there is no way in hell I’m doing literature in a foreign language, since I don’t know any foreign languages!! I haven’t even mastered English properly yet! If I was really pushed I’d probably pick Latin, but I’m not good enough to be assessed on it and for it to count towards my degree. I think though, that I applied for Literature and Linguistics, which means I don’t actually have to do the module, but I can’t remember lol. Still, at least it helps me narrow down my choices of university :D
Aww Pom’s got an infection, and he has to wear one of those cone-type things. He’s really upset and doesn’t want to do anything: eat, drink, go out. He doesn’t even get up when you go to the door and look in on him – and normally he jumps right up and starts jumping in the air and spinning round lol. It sounds weird, but he really does do that :D Hopefully he’ll get better soon :love:
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Awww poor Pom:neutral:. I hope he is better soon. I’m not very good at forien languages. :( Shame, my school is a language college. :p
10/02/2005 at 12:33 pmaww, poor Pom :( I still have all my uni open days to come… I’m quite looking forward to them though :)
10/02/2005 at 1:30 pmI hate having to be assessed (sp?) for group discussions. I never know what to say and end up saying something that goes against what i said earlier :S
10/02/2005 at 5:06 pmI hope Pom gets better soon! I know its really bad but i think its hillarious when i see dogs with those cone things on. :blush:
:love::love::love:
Yeah, I know what you mean about speaking, but it’s just so they can tell if you’re confident in front of people :)
10/02/2005 at 6:09 pmPoor Pom :shocked: xxx
firstly, poor pom, hope he feel better, I hate the cones on pets.. :(
10/02/2005 at 6:31 pmIts a bit sumb to have to do that on course, I think if you did go thee you should do old norse..lol..But 10% on speakin would bug me too.,.
Haha! Hope everything is okay now!
10/02/2005 at 12:24 pmPoor Pom:sick:
I hope he’ll get better soon:)
10% assessed on speaking? That’s… I don’t know, not very much, but still… I don’t like speaking much in class, but discussions isn’t too hard. And the contributing to discussions is probably so they can see if you make an effort to get a good grade and that you have learned something or have opinions, that’s what it’s like at my school at least.
Old Norse, hard… I know some of it, but it’s hard for someone from England probably. Nah, I’m sure you’ll make it:)
Hope Pom will get better soon:love:
10/02/2005 at 2:19 pmOh wow, that’s a long drive! We’re graded on speaking in class too, well participation I guess, but it’s also whether you do notes or not. That does not sound like a fun lecture at all. Oh goodness, literature? I can’t even believe that, even though some of my friends are taking that. Oh poor Pom! I hope he gets well soon!
10/02/2005 at 11:49 pmAahw, the poor dog! Hope he gets better soon!!
10/02/2005 at 5:56 pmIf 10% of my degree was marked on speaking I’d be screwed lol. If you do end up doing that, you should be the person who always gives their opinion (atleast you’d get good marks!)
10/02/2005 at 6:21 pmIf a guy handed me a poem in Norse, I’d be really confused, though he does sound like a nice guy like you said.
I think if you DID have to do that module, then you should pick Latin, as you do know a bit.
I hope Pom gets better soon, give him a hug from me :) Cya!
The Viking class and speaker actually sounds cool IMO. 10% for speaking? I’d fail that. I’m sure you’ll do fine.
10/02/2005 at 7:13 pmLatin… lovely language. I was horrified to learn that I can’t take it in highschool cuz they only do Latin 1 & 3 every other year, and Latin 2 & 4 on the others. I can’t start out in 1, so I have to wait a year :( But it’s a very fun language… and semi-easy seeing as it’s like all roots and stuff.
11/02/2005 at 3:58 amLatin… lovely language. I was horrified to learn that I can’t take it in highschool cuz they only do Latin 1 & 3 every other year, and Latin 2 & 4 on the others. I can’t start out in 1, so I have to wait a year But it’s a very fun language… and semi-easy seeing as it’s like all roots and stuff.
11/02/2005 at 3:59 am10% in your grade to speak? What a load of BS.Lol, I’m taking Latin NOW and I’m in 6th grade.
10/02/2005 at 10:58 pmI hope Pom gets better.
Oh i really hope Pom gets well soon :grr: Pooor doggy! My kitty always got ill, and now they think she might have asthma. She’s only 5 :( But meh….pets rock XP
11/02/2005 at 11:10 amOh, sorry this has turned out two comments =/ I just wanted to say about the foreign languages stuff! Being assessed on speaking? Id hate that heh. And i wouldnt be able to speak any of those languages :blush: French is the only foreign language I know quite well :D
11/02/2005 at 11:12 amHey Jen :P Sorry i haven’t being commenting latly i have being really busy! but Yay!! no more school for 10 days!! :D:love: Also hope Pom gets well soon!!! I may be getting a dog today!!!!!!
11/02/2005 at 1:19 pmwow that school doesn’t sound like it excites you… are there any other schools that you’ll look at?
11/02/2005 at 3:09 pmI’m so sorry about Pom. I know what it’s like to have a pet w/ an infection and disease and what-not… Hopefully everything works out well! =)
I know it’s cruel but animals look so funny in those cones! I remember when my put (sorry, Minty, he’s a cat lol) hurt his leg and had a cone, bless. I couldn’t do another language either, same with you.. English is hard enough to master lol. Good luck though whatever happens!! :)
11/02/2005 at 7:53 pmLOLL sorry i know the cone must be painful n cruel.. but the first time i ever saw an animal with it on i cracked up heh.
12/02/2005 at 4:28 amman picking uni’s sound so difficult.. and final. =/ hope you work out where u wanna go~!
I’ sure those cons should be covered in cruelty to aimals lol … tee evil! I hope you sort out your coarse problem and I think the speaking/discussion thing is justto make people more active in the lectures etc so just be active and argue your point and you will do fine I’m sure!
12/02/2005 at 9:00 amI can tell you this, Italian is the easiest language cause it has the purest vowel sounds, I know cause I had to take all of those languages in college cause I was a voice major and had to sing in all of them, English is actually the hardest language to learn and sing, due to multiple pronuciation of simliar vowel sounds plus the combinations. That’s why its hard for foriegn people to learn english too. Italian is really easy and so pretty.
12/02/2005 at 1:18 pmsorry it cut me off! LOL! I wish you luck though, I am sure you can do it, I did! Those cone thing really stink, I hope he gets it off soon and gets rid of that infection! I love this vector! Really unique than most I see! You got awesome skills!
12/02/2005 at 1:20 pmChoosing universities sounds so hard! Hope Pom gets better soon!
12/02/2005 at 4:09 pmWhat ever you do, do NOT pick Old Norse, trust me! Hopeless language (I’m Norwegian), and boring. I hope Pom gets better soon:)
12/02/2005 at 4:28 pmErgh I hate rushing. I always end up rushing to do homework and stuff, eck.
Lectures are stupid lol. But assessing on speaking is a bit… I don’t know… Odd? Yeah, thats just stupid, contributing… Someone could just take charge of talking like you said. Lame.
Lmao, I can barely understand the poem ‘Jabberwocky’, let alone a poem in Old Norse! Gee, thats a bit crap lol. We’ve just finished doing our poetry topic and the worst it got was ‘Bedd Gelert’ which is in an oldish sort of english.
But thats just stupid lol. Why bother doing poetry in another language… It doesn’t make sense at all to me. If I was forced to, I would choose either French or Latin. :love:
Lol, so I take it you’re not keen on going to that university that you have to do poetry in a foreign language at. Lmao :P I would probably do the same though hehe.
Awwh poor pompom :( I find those cone things rather amusing lol. Theres this dog wearing one in te film ‘Cats and Dogs’ and its got all techy stuff inside it… Haha. Aww… Maybe he’s caught the people virus that seems to be going around (the world). Poor Pompom :( I hope he gets better :D
12/02/2005 at 6:51 pmMuch love to you & Pom :)
:( Hope Pom gets better soon.
12/02/2005 at 8:03 pmWow learning a forgien language:P I’m still in high school and still learning french…extremly boring in my opinion, i know a bit of spanish and it’s somewhat similar to french. I too if forced to learn another lanaguage and had those choices, I’d choose latin.
i think u should do italian. latin is so hard i no i tryed but failed :( hope pom gets betta
12/02/2005 at 5:25 pmi love the new default skin.;)
13/02/2005 at 1:35 amForeign Languages are fun! But I don’t quite understand Old Norse..and Vikings…haha.
I hope Pom gets better! :( Sounds like it’s a sad l’il pup.
13/02/2005 at 2:33 amAww I hope Pom gets better soon. And it looks like you had great fun hah.
13/02/2005 at 7:44 amAnyway, I love the site, keep it up x
I hope pom get’s better… :)
13/02/2005 at 3:14 pmOh, poor pom!! :) He sound like sounds so sad.. It sounds like you had a realyl hectic day!! I hope it gets better for you.
13/02/2005 at 7:04 pmKeep up the good work! :love:
arww. pooor pom :( me hopes he feels better ^_^. we get assessed on speaking at my schooll it sucks :P
13/02/2005 at 8:08 pmLove the default skin :) and I hope Pom gets better soon
13/02/2005 at 12:40 pmAh, that sucks about pom getting an infection, it really sucks for him. *sighs* my dig got one at one point in time and wouldn’t do anything!
15/02/2005 at 5:58 pmSo, what are you going to major in?
15/02/2005 at 9:04 pmAww hope Pom gets better soon.
Old Norse? Wtf is Old Norse?? Lol. :S
15/02/2005 at 11:35 pmEeevil I know, but I was singing the batman theme tune with the words “cone dog”. :p Poor Pom I feel bad now. :( Norse is a fun language, but a bit of a shock if you don’t expect it. lmao.
16/02/2005 at 2:23 pmAw poor Pom! :sick:
Old Norse? What’s that? Well OBVIOUSLY a language… oh well
16/02/2005 at 2:54 pm