Just another day
Want to know how to almost give yourself a heart attack? Open up your mail and find volume 2 of your Japanese course book sitting there waiting for you...and you still have about a week and a half to go in your current book, never mind the test.
I KNOW I'm on schedule. The test isn't due until the 7th, and if I finish it next Thursday and mail it next Friday, it will be in by then. I'll be fine. I do realize this. It's just, last year, I'd be done and have the test mailed off, and the book would come after that. Yeah, I wasn't spending eons translating everything b/c the grammar explanations were in English last year, but I also could study more in a day and remember more. Now, I dedicate so much time to translation so that I can figure out what's going on that I don't have as much time to remember all of this new vocabulary. I also have to wait to make sure that I translated things properly and that the grammar point is right before I try to memorize, for in case I'm doing something more. I only see my neighbor once a week, though, and lately, we've had a lot of stuff come up on that night and have only met once. I can only hope I pass the test! UGH. >.<
On days like today, Japanese is far from my best friend.
I KNOW I'm on schedule. The test isn't due until the 7th, and if I finish it next Thursday and mail it next Friday, it will be in by then. I'll be fine. I do realize this. It's just, last year, I'd be done and have the test mailed off, and the book would come after that. Yeah, I wasn't spending eons translating everything b/c the grammar explanations were in English last year, but I also could study more in a day and remember more. Now, I dedicate so much time to translation so that I can figure out what's going on that I don't have as much time to remember all of this new vocabulary. I also have to wait to make sure that I translated things properly and that the grammar point is right before I try to memorize, for in case I'm doing something more. I only see my neighbor once a week, though, and lately, we've had a lot of stuff come up on that night and have only met once. I can only hope I pass the test! UGH. >.<
On days like today, Japanese is far from my best friend.