sarah get off your soapbox
Oct. 14th, 2010 11:37 pmSo assuming my reregistration goes through and my name hasn't been blacklisted or anything, it looks like I will be going back to school in January and Romance languaging it up! I'm still kind of grumbly about the fact that I have to take a whole bunch of French to even get into the teaching program, but I guess it's nice of them to want you to be employable? I loled when I found a university that lets you do your practicum teaching Korean, because apparently there is only ONE city in this province where you can do that, and even there you have to teach weekend classes because no regular school offers it! Man, am I totally wrong in thinking that Korean is the ~trendy language~ these days, or are schools just really slow in picking up on this stuff?
I'm looking forward to taking more Spanish though. <3 But not so much looking forward to taking first year English, what the heck!! I love how I was able to graduate without it but now EVERYONE WANTS ME TO HAVE IT. :|
Overall though I guess I'm excited. After so much limbo it feels good to finally have some sort of plan. And lol, I love how I'm suddenly so into it. Pretty much after ESL last week I was all "OH MY GOD TEACHING LANGUAGES IS AMAZING BRB LOOKING INTO THIS RIGHT NOW!!!" xD Speaking of, I went to ESL again today! My favourite part was when the teacher wrote a sentence on the board and went through it word-by-word, all "Spanish speakers, don't leave out this word! Arabic speakers, don't leave out this word!" Last week she warned Japanese speakers not to stick "Because" at the front of a sentence fragment and call it a sentence. I guess when you've taught ESL for a while you can kind of predict the mistakes that students from different backgrounds will make! xD;
Also, because you guys aren't already bored by this entry, I was talking to one of my co-workers about my back-to-school plans, and his suggestion was "Why don't you learn a language related to Japanese, like Chinese?" Add that to my list of misconceptions my co-workers have about languages! It can go right under "'draco dormiens nunquam titillandus' can't possibly mean 'never tickle a sleeping dragon' because that has a different number of words!" :3 (lol actually I shouldn't complain, because the co-worker I was talking with has previously teased me about my degree and so I did appreciate his actually being supportive!)
I'm looking forward to taking more Spanish though. <3 But not so much looking forward to taking first year English, what the heck!! I love how I was able to graduate without it but now EVERYONE WANTS ME TO HAVE IT. :|
Overall though I guess I'm excited. After so much limbo it feels good to finally have some sort of plan. And lol, I love how I'm suddenly so into it. Pretty much after ESL last week I was all "OH MY GOD TEACHING LANGUAGES IS AMAZING BRB LOOKING INTO THIS RIGHT NOW!!!" xD Speaking of, I went to ESL again today! My favourite part was when the teacher wrote a sentence on the board and went through it word-by-word, all "Spanish speakers, don't leave out this word! Arabic speakers, don't leave out this word!" Last week she warned Japanese speakers not to stick "Because" at the front of a sentence fragment and call it a sentence. I guess when you've taught ESL for a while you can kind of predict the mistakes that students from different backgrounds will make! xD;
Also, because you guys aren't already bored by this entry, I was talking to one of my co-workers about my back-to-school plans, and his suggestion was "Why don't you learn a language related to Japanese, like Chinese?" Add that to my list of misconceptions my co-workers have about languages! It can go right under "'draco dormiens nunquam titillandus' can't possibly mean 'never tickle a sleeping dragon' because that has a different number of words!" :3 (lol actually I shouldn't complain, because the co-worker I was talking with has previously teased me about my degree and so I did appreciate his actually being supportive!)