Never been so miserable in school since my high school gym class.

[icarus]

I am so miserable in this Japanese class. I hate it so much.

You know it's bad when you get up at 6am to try to work out the homework, and not doing well, ready to throw things at the cat who insists on stepping on my battered homework.

The teacher's not going to let me make up a test I missed. I got half credit a couple weeks ago for a late assignment (late because I was so swamped I missed the second page that indicated there was homework due).

I spoke with the teacher. Her solution is for me to switch to the 8 am class. This will not help when the problem is I don't have enough time to do the homework, though my guess is that the 8am class is slightly behind my class.

I'm having flashbacks to my high school gym class. Sure, I'm a foot shorter than everyone else, despise competition in all forms, but yeah, it's a great idea to make me play basketball against my will.



And, while I don't regret helping her, a student approached me in the hall to ask for help when I was trying to go home. Ended up working an hour late.

Then -- surprise -- last night's Law class had a quiz. I think I did all right though. I'm keeping up with that homework, mostly because I speed read legalese. But yes, WG was feeling lonely and unloved last night, pestered me all through my Law homework until I read him a passage and he realised that "home" did not mean "available" (I have to do this every day - he does not get it). This evening I was fried, and spent a little quality time with him.

And fell asleep. Shit.

Now I'm up at 6am, trying to do Japanese.

Shit, shit, shit. It may be too late for this grade, even if I do change my work study schedule.

Comments

[pastles.livejournal.com]

Urgh... do you need help with the Japanese homework? I'm a beginner myself, but I do know people who should be able to answer questions.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

About half of my tutoring students are Japanese, but my schedule's too pressed to even ask them because there's one after another and then I have to go to the next class and I have homework to prepare for that -- I'll take you up on this if I can work it in somewhere and am not so desperately behind that I need answers NOW.

Icarus

[bsafemydeers.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind doing bits of it over AIM or LJ or something, I'm in my third year and I'd be happy to lend a hand.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm open to it... but how? I don't have Hiragana fonts.

Icarus

[bsafemydeers.livejournal.com]

Straightforward romanji. You know, like, benkyou shimasu. It would really only be help in the grammar and stuff, but I'm always willing to help out.

You can get me at je belle soleil on AIM if you'd like.

[ptyx.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel. I have always been a top student, but when I tried to learn Japanese I almost went nuts. I won't say that I couldn't do it, but the timing was all wrong and I finally gave up.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

It's a tough language, about as hard to learn as Tibetan, only harder to pronounce. I think we have it settled now though. I'm going to scale back my work study hours.

Icarus

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

*hugs* You are definitely ... doing too much. Don't over-exert yourself. X_X;; Working and schooling is the worst combination, EVER.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Agreed, it is not a good combo, not good at all.

Relief is in sight. I'm going to reduce the number of tutoring hours I have scheduled.

Icarus

*hugs*

[barbana.livejournal.com]

Can you quit or do you have to take the class?

Re: *hugs*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This helped the other day.

It was too late to drop the class without having it show on my transcript as a withdraw, so I've gone with option C: scale down my work study schedule.

Man.

Icarus

[harveywallbang.livejournal.com]

i hated gym class so effing much...i'm not physically fit, stop reminding me, bastards! and i'm not gonna be physically fit by having you make me humiliate myself in front of the class 5 times a year because i can't do a single pull-up! wahhh...

hehe...least it's over... but i'm sensing that the "gym classes" of life are not over... *sigh*

don't kill yourself dead over this stuff, you're too cool..

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You sweetie. It worked out okay - the teacher let me take the test, and I'm changing my work schedule.

Whew.

Icarus

[harveywallbang.livejournal.com]

phew is right. das good that it did. :)