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I'm so happy.
The bad thing is that I have tons of homework to do, so it won't be that much of a resting weekend.
I need to make a translation (yet another one, every week I'll make one...).
I need to prepare a presentation for "Translation fundaments" (new subject ^^), I'm talking about linguistic and non-linguistic semantics, pragmatic and text analysis (I don't even know if those are the name in english...).
I also have to make a presentation about London for my cultural week.
Make a presentation about Köln in german... for my oral test.
And... what else? I know there's something else...
Oh yeah! I need to learn a French poem for my phonetics class. We're in rythm right now...
So... I won't have much free time, but at least I hope I'll finish all.
Have a good day.
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Tengo un fin de semana de 4 días ^^. Septiembre 16 es el día de la Independencia así que no hay clases. Pero como cae en martes, la escuela nos dijo que podemos faltar el 15 ^^ (puente ^^).
Estoy tan feliz.
Lo malo es que tengo kilos de tarea que hacer, así que no voy a descansar mucho en mi fin.
Necesito hacer una traducción (una más, cada semana me toca una...).
Tengo que preparar una exposición para "Fundamentos de Traducción" (nueva materia ^^), y me toca hablar de semántica lingüística y no lingüística, pragmática y análisis de texto.
Teng que hacer una presentación de Londres para la semana cultural.
Hacer una presentación de Köln en alemán... para mi examen oral.
¿Qué más? Sé que algo me falta...
¡Ah sí! tengo que aprenderme un poema en francés para mi clase de fonética. Estamos viendo ritmo...
Así que... no voy a tener mucho tiempo libre, pero al menos espero acabar todo.
Tengan un buen día.
- Location:casita
- Mood:
working - Music:"Je ne savais pas" La Belle et la Bête OST
I liked not having homeworks, and not having to get up early in the mornings... sadly it's over.
However, even though I was supposed to start the 25th, I skiped 3 days of school, I was in NY with my family, two uncles and one aunt ^^. It was so much fun I want to do it again ^^.
And I bought so many books (the only thing I bought actually, I ran out of money and I'm broke yet again).
This is the list:
-Maskerade - Terry Pratchett.
-Son of a witch - Gregory Mcguire.
-Painless grammar - Rebecca Elliot.
-Loveless 4, 5 and 6.
-Until the full moon 1.
-Vampire Knight 1.
-Kuru neko (in japanese).
-Nihon monogatari 1 and 2 (in japanese as well).
-Le chat chapeauté - Dr. Seuss (in french ^^).
-Le Talisman écarlate - Marion Zimmer Bradley (also in french).
That's it ^^.
I didn't know I could find french books in NY, so it was quite a surprise ^^, I already read the one by Dr. Seuss and it's just lovely (I love Dr. Seuss ^^).
And the ones in japanese... well, let's just say I can read them since I know how to read hiragana and the kanjis have the little hiragana on the side... but I have no idea what they say. There's hundreds of words I don't even know.
But I figured, I need to start reading in japanese... so that's why I bought them.
The one of "Kuru neko" is a manga, that one I understand, it's simple ^^, and so funny.
And well... I started classes on Thursday, I already have lots of homework and a presentation to make in french for monday.
And a translation due on friday...
So many thing to do...
Have a nice weekend.
( ESPAÑOL )
- Location:casita
- Mood:
doing homework - Music:silencio absoluto...
Okay so...
School is going nicely. Not so much homework yet (I think that'll come in the next quartres or something). We're almost done with exams (we still have 1 to go). Languages are nice, french is now in french (because at the begining it was a combination of spanish-french... more spanish than anything else).
Everything else is becoming clearer, and easier somehow.
Then, japanese finally is going somewhere, it's not so confusing anymore, or at least I hope so, I'm tiring of repeating the same level over, and over again.
What else?
I finally got, all the collection of Anne Rice's novels about vampires and witches. It took some time, but all the books are finally in my hands, now I just need time to read them. Blackwood farm is just terribly huge, it's even bigger than Blood and Gold. Blood Canticle looks decent enough. But the Witching hour is a hell of a Bible.... in tiny letters that are barely readable, but that's all right. I also got the one of the Mesias... just to see how she'll do with her new trilogy, now that vampires are over I need something else. I'll buy feast of all saints later on, when I have some money...
Day of the Dead is coming closer each day, and I couldn't be happier about it. I'll get to see the legends all over again (now, finally with a camera to take hundreds of pictures).
I'll go in the chase of ofrendas in the city. I'll go to the UNAM again ^^.
And that's it, my hands are too cold to keep writing.
( ESPAÑOL} )
- Location:en casita
- Mood:
cold - Music:"Can't loose what you never had" Westlife
We are going to have chats about Translation, Semiotics (which I'm sure I won't understand, given that I barely cope with Linguistics), History and stuff.
Well have dances, movies, presentations in english.
And food, from Italy, Germany and France.
I thinks it's really awesome that we have this kind of things going around every now and then.
And so, that means I only have language classes the rest of the week (no more linguistics for a week).
Which is good, because they're both quite smooth subjects,so it's deffinitely not a problem.
And tomorrow I'm going to study over at a friend's house, he'll even feed us ^^.
And that's all.
Sure, there's lots of frustrations coming and going, but nothing way too serious.
Haven't been able to finish the bloody book I'm reading (let alone the one about India, I fall asleep everytime I grab it).
I'm half-way through with House M.D. season 3 (lovely Chase, how could I steal him?)
I'm coping with french and japanese at the same time (this time I hope I actually pass japanese, I'm tired of being in the same level everytime).
And last, but not least, I'm happy because a home remedy it's finally working (no, you don't need to know anything else).
So, everything good.
Have a nice week people.
Smile.
Be happy.
( ESPAÑOL )
- Location:en casita
- Mood:
happy - Music:"Welcome to my life" Simple Plan
It's just that, this past weeks I felt as if I was in High School instead of doing an actual career. Maybe because classes weren't particularly demanding, or because I had two dead hours... I don't know, the case is, I just felt weird.
But now that (finally) they've let me start french, and now that classes are going deeper, I'm starting to feel more at ease.
English is much better now, they changed our teacher, and this one feels better, we're discussing more and doing more things than last month.
Because you should now that language classes finish every month, the school has this system of... for example:
Basic A, B, C, D
Pre-Intermediate A, B, C, D
And so on, until you reach Superior. Each letter takes you a month, so, by the end of the quartre you are supposed to finish one level. Every language goes around the same. So now I'm on Superior B.
Ruth and I just started French. Because, suposedly, freshman are not suppose to start French until the next quartre, but since we are in Superior in english, and we have no classes from 9 to 11, they let us go into French, so that's good ^^.
And my other classes are going much better now. Linguistics is just hell, since we have all this new terms we never heard of before and we need to learn all of a sudden. But at least my teacher is nice, although she is italian, so you can imagine how fun the class acutally is ^^.
Then, History of Ideas is just plain phylosophy, so that's not a problem
Grammar is simpler now, we're getting used to analize a hell lot of words in very few minutes, and now I don't make that many mistakes anymore.
And Reading is going smooth as always, we're starting to write more essays and comparisons during class, so it's also improving quite a bit.
That means I also get more homework to do now, but it's fine, it's never too much.
Except for the presentations, but I think we're half way trough with them, so it shouldn't be an issue.
And well, that's all my life is right now. I think I did make the right choose with the career.
Have a nice day people.
Smile
And remember: "It's time to try defying gravity" - Elphaba in Wicked.
( ESPAÑOL )
- Location:en casita
- Mood:
studying - Music:"Superfly" Curtis Mayfield
Now, since all of this happened at once, I was only waiting for the blows to come from my family.
1.- There were people that told me “Don’t be an idiot, stay in the UNAM. Best school ever, Pumas rulzzzzzz!!!!!!!” (Their minds seemed to go back to eight grade.)
2.- Others told me “Well, I’m happy you finally decided what you want, and that you have a university, now make the best out of it.” (They were pretty optimistic really.)
3.- Some others said “You are in the UNAM, great!, Wait, did you say you weren’t going in?... Hold on, let me process this” (And they went blank, probably still processing it).
4.- Quite a few told me “Well, your stupid, the UNAM is the best school and others will take you more seriously if you have a degree from it than from another school, but since it is your life, and it is not my problem, stop bugging me with this nuisance and do what ever the hell you want.” (Very business like… not diplomatic at all though)
5.- And there were the ones that didn’t know what to say, and so they either: A) Screamed random stuff that I didn’t understand.
Either way, I’m gonna end up doing whatever the hell I want (as the people that fit description number 4 so kindly told me…)
Whatever happens, that’s not the point, I just wanted to write it ^^.
The thing is that, I went to the British Council today.
(I actually ended up in the British Consulate, and they told me I was in the wrong place.)
I went looking for possibilities of getting a scholarship and go abroad. They told me that it didn’t matter if I didn’t have a UNAM degree, that what schools in the UK wanted to know was: What classes I took, and how well I did.
So, it lifted my spirit quite a bit.
And they told me that many people could get me a scholarship, as long as I looked, they gave me a bunch of pamphlets with a lot of information in teeny tiny letter.
I asked about the IELTS exam, because I need a certain amount of English to go abroad, naturally.
And I asked about schools, and they gave more pamphlets.
Because honestly, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in México. Is not that I don’t love my country, I do. But the feeling of insecurity is just so high that I’m terrified to go out at nights (something that did not happened to me in Cambridge).
I know my family is here, but I want more than this frickin’ country full of dangerous people just around the corner. I want a life in which I can feel a little bit safer than here.
So, I would love to leave as soon as I finish my career to make a post-degree somewhere else.
(I would also love to leave for 4 months during my career to do a student exchange with a university abroad… that’ll be awesome).
So, I’ll just see what happens as time goes on.
Now, the final news (thank God).
Last Friday at midnight, the new book of Harry Potter came out. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. That is not the interesting bit, although it was quite exciting for me.
The thing is that, about a month ago, I pre-ordered my book in a Bookshop, I paid in full the deluxe edition (I thought it was worth it, given that is the last book, and there’s just no way in hell I’ll ever get the chance to get a deluxe edition again).
They told me that I could pick it up on Saturday and I went home very happy.
Two or three days before the book was out, the Bookshop called me, and the conversation went a bit like this:
Lady: Is this Uyuki? (Well, she asked my real name, but since all of you know me as Uyuki, I don’t’ see the point on changing it).
Me: yes.
Lady: Hi, I’m calling from the Bookshop, did you pre-ordered a deluxe edition of Harry Potter?
Me: yes. (And my head was thinking “What the hell do they want?”)
Lady: Well, I was calling to see if you would like to change your deluxe edition for the normal one, see, the problem is that the editorial house sent us less books that the ones we ordered and we’re seeing if anyone is willing to trade.
Me: No, of course not, I’ve been looking for the deluxe edition everywhere, I’m not changing it. (And my head was still thinking “What the hell, I paid a lot of money for that, the hell I’m gonna say yes, I want my book now lady”).
Lady: Okay then, no problem. See ya’.
Me: O_o.
But I got really frustrated by the call, so, on Friday afternoon I called again and they told me that I would have my deluxe edition. I didn’t believe them of course.
So my mum told me that if I wanted to go at 8 to pick it up by midnight it was okay.
And so we went.
They actually gave me a number to pick the book, we went to have dinner and then we came back.
People were pouring out of every damn hole, lots and lots of fans were everywhere.
I managed to get my book, along with a poster with all the covers of the previous books, and I also got myself one of the boxes in which they brought the books. It says “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, deluxe edition, Do not open before July 21, 2007”
And then, I kept reading and reading until, at last, I finished the book yesterday night.
And right now I just want to scream so hard.
( ESPAÑOL )
- Location:en la oficina
- Mood:
sick - Music:nada
And I really enjoyed it ^^.
I mean, I still prefer the books, but that's because in a book everything is better explained, they don't have that "limit" time thingy, and they can be as big as the author wants.
Still, I think the movie was really good. I know they missed somethings that I really wanted to see on pictures... but the most important ones were there, and they solved the big scenes quite well, like Snape's worst memory.
I'm happy ^^.
And I can't wait for the book to come out.
I already set it apart in the bookshop (it actually cost me a damn fortune, but it's worth it).
I'll pick it up next saturday.
And I hope that everything resolves in the book.
I want to know what's going to happen now that Dumbledore is not there anymore.
I'm dying to know if Snape is evil or not.
I want to now who R.A.B. is.
And well, I think I know how it possibly ends... but I want to know if she is gonna kill him or not.
I know the other one kinda has to die, because I don't think she'll let evil win the battle.
But... if she kills both, that's gonna be interesting.
Anyway, I should be going now. I have to study japanese because I have class later this afternoon.
And I don't know one single kanji.
( ESPAÑOL )
- Location:en casita
- Mood: happy
- Music:"Where you lead" Carol King
Not that my writing is interesting or anything, but still.
Lot of things had happend over the week since my last entry.
None of which I'm gonna tell.
At least not the two most important ones. I do have my reasons.
1) I don't feel like "telling" this just now, I got really upset and I don't want to think about it anymore or I'll get upset again, and my stomach doesn't need it right now. And besides, it's something I don't want everyone to know.
2) The second thing, which is a good thing... I'm not ready to tell it just now, because I still have to see a lot of things, just to make sure it's actually possible. And I want to keep it a secret for a few people at least.
Maybe that's why there haven't been any news lately.
On the other hand, I finished japanese yesterday, it was the final exam and I think I did okay. Let's just hope I pass.
At least I'll have some more free time to study French, because now is not just another language I would love to learn.
It's a language I DO need.
Urgently.
Well, not so urgently.
Somewhere in between urgent and not urgent.
Take care people.
Be happy.
- Location:en la oficina
- Mood:
blank - Music:"Beautiful" Cristina Aguilera
Actually, it didn't took that long.
I'm tired, really tired. And I just want to scream for the world to stop for just a second before I die.
Fortunatelly, I only need to cope with this for another two weeks and everything will be over. Thank good, I need to sleep for a whole day to recharge my energies or something.
I so want this weekend to start already.
Oh and I just read something that traumatized me.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO, MY BEAUTIFUL CHASE.
DON'T DO THIS TO HIM.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
There, sorry, I needed to yell, because I can barely believe that he just did that to my boy.
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Mi cerebro comienza a derretirse. Por fin.
De hecho, no le tomó tanto tiempo como yo esperaba.
Estoy cansada, verdaderamente agotada. Y solo quiero gritar para que el mundo se detenga por unos segundos.
Afortunadamente, solo necesito lidiar con esto dos semanas mas y todo se terminará. Gracias a Dios, porque necesito dormir por todo un día para recargar batería.
Solo quiero que este fin de semana ya llegue.
Oh y acabo de leer algo que me dejo traumada.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, MY HERMOSO CHASE.
NO LE HAGAN ESTO.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Listo, lo siento, tenía que gritar, porque aún no puedo creer que él le haga esto a mi niño.
- Location:en la oficina
- Mood:
argh - Music:"All lovers hell" Kristofer Astrom
Last Tuesday my French classes started
, I'm happy about it, since my Japanese classes are taking too long.But the problem is that my classes are combined, they go like this.
Japanese - French - Japanese - French. And then, my weekend off, well not exactly off, since I teach english to my little cousin.
But that's not the point. I have the feeling I'm going to start mixing languages, and that's not good.
Well, that's it, I need to practice some of my pronunciation.
Bye-bye.
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Creo que estos dos meses van a ser el Infierno en la Tierra.
El martes pasado comenzaron mis clases de francés
, estoy feliz por ello, dado que mis clases de japonés estan tardando demasiado.El problema es que mis clases estan combinadas, van así.
Japonés - Francés - Japonés - Francés. Y luego, mi fin de semana libre, bueno, ni tan libre porque le enseño inglés a mi primita.
Pero ese no es el punto. Tengo la sensación de que voy a comenzar a mezclar idiomas, y eso no es bueno.
En fin, eso era todo, que necesito practicar mi pronunciación.
Bye-bye.
- Location:en la oficina
- Mood:
confused - Music:silencio de nuevo
Pero en el oral se me olvidó mencionar una cosa que me dijeron que debía mencionar... solo espero que no me quite muchos puntos.
Y el auditivo... bueno, esos siempre son medio mortales porque nada mas los puedo escuchar una sola vez, pero creo que no me fue tan mal.
Ahora solo me queda esperar hasta el doce y ver si pasé o no.
Yo espero que si...
Espero.
Por otro lado, hoy voy con mi primita a darle más clases.
Pero como había estado estudiando no había tenido tiempo de hacer material para la clase.
Y ayer mi madre linda y tierna me hizo el favor de comprarme tres libros de actividades en lo que yo hacía mi examen.
La verdad estan lindos, me gustaron.
Y me sirven mucho para entretenerla y que no me agote a mi.
- Mood: working
- Music:"Don't mind lay lay boy" Ranma 1/2
Sino porque sé que es una misión suicida.
Pero tal vez deba explicarme.
Le estoy dando clases de inglés a mi prima de 6 años.
Casi 7 ya.
No que llevemos muchas ni nada.
De hecho, ayer fue la primera clase.
Y más que nada solo chequé su nivel de inglés.
Pero es muy hiperactiva y se esta moviendo todo el tiempo.
Así que tuve que inventarme algo para entretenerla porque no iba preparada (yo no iba con intención de enseñarle nada, pero me sobró tiempo).
Así que repasé los colores con ella.
Anduve por toda la casa buscando colores para que ella me los dijera.
Y luego la mandé a ella que me señalara cosas del color que yo le decía.
La puse a escribir.
Repasé algunos animales.
Y todavía le dejé tarea para ver si se calmaba un poco.
Fue nada mas hora y media y yo acabé cansada.
Y claro, mañana ya le voy a enseñar propiamente.
Pero dado que yo no tengo material con que trabajar, tengo que hacerlo.
Así que ayer por la noche hice unas "flash cards" de las figuras.
Hoy estoy haciendo de animales.
Saqué todos los peluches que tengo para hacer un juego.
Y ya le hice dos hojas de ejercicios.
Y estoy cansada.
Nunca había hecho material para nada a menos de que me lo encargaran en la escuela.
Como dije.
Dar clases a niños hiperactivos es suicida.
...
Pero es lindo ^^.
- Mood:
restless - Music:"Rose" Titanic OST
