I'm really overly giddy about the fact that I sat down by myself and wrote a speech the night before last. I know that sounds dumb, but I was really worried that the grammar would be wrong and that I couldn't get the feelings across properly. When we had break in class, I decided that I could show the teacher and ask her to make comments on my speech to help me out. Seeing as I am the one that is/was farthest behind in language studies, I thought that a little help couldn't hurt me. The teacher was thrilled. I guess it's because they know I am struggling being in this higher level course, but when they see that I am at least trying and that I want to get further along, then they feel like I'm worth the time and effort. Sure, I fail tests all the time, but at least I TRY really hard in class and I also picked up more classes this semester. My biggest problem, really, is not knowing vocabulary. If I could double or triple the vocabulary that I know, then I would have no problem being able to compete with these people in class.
Really, I need to find a better way to input vocabulary to my brain. I really have no idea where to start. I tried making flash cards but they all get lost. And I am too impatient to only import 50 or so cards into Anki at a time so I overwhelm myself instead. I just really need to work on that.
Back to my original point, I was so happy when the teacher told me that my speech looked really good! She helped me hammer out a few lines that were close to what I wanted to say and had the proper grammar, but really weren't what should be used. All in all I only had two corrections. :D
I move at the end of next month. I'm not sure whether to be excited about that or not. I'm not going far, in fact, the address will pretty much be the same. I'm just going to be living alone from here on out.
