German oral exam today, and I bet a whole lot of people from Google are now dismayed that this isn't a porn site.
Did well, except that I write much more carefully than I talk. Word order seems to have so much more freedom in English than in any other language. I can write a sentence like this. Like this can I write a sentence. A sentence can I write like this (although like Yoda do I sound), and it's all still acceptable.
For example, here's a word for word German sentence structure (translated, of course). "Then have I with my friends to the store gone". You really can't change this up. I think if you want you can also say "to the store with my friends", but that's kinda what it has to be.
So when I try and translate in my head, while I catch these things on paper, my mouth doesn't. I thank my right hand for being the middle man in this relationship. So like I said, not bad, but if it'd been written I'd've done much better.
At the end of it, she asked me why I gave up French. I was a little perplexed, was she suggesting I might as well stick to that and give up the German, or what? She explained that I must have been pretty good at it because I speak German like a Frenchperson, not like an American.
I remind you that the lady is French/German herself. It's my guess that all I'm doing is probably picking up on exactly what she says, but hearing the French more than the German. However, I suppose now if I ever go to Germany, I can pass myself off as French. Though, I guess I'm not sure that's much better than being American in some ways.
Speaking of nationalities, Leo the Russian is having a reading of his play on Thursday. I have a class performance that night at eight, so it's a bit of a squeeze, but I think someone else from the class wants to go too. I desperately want to go, having been his editor, and just generally liking the play anyway.
Last night I made a movie for my Theatre Management presentation today. The whole class thinks the whole department ought to see it, which I can't believe. The corny stuff I churn out for fun should not be as good as everyone says it is. It's a little over two minutes long and it took me two hours to do, plus fighting with the computer which doesn't like the amount of memory the programme takes up after about a minute and a half worth of film.
I'd like to put it up so other people can see it, but there are lot of in-jokes that I doubt everyone would understand, and besides that, while I am gifted in many things, I don't know how to do that.