Look Who's Back

Sorry for the hiatus of late, I've been stuck in the midst of midterms and have emerged on the otherside shattered, drained, but relieved that the worse is over. Going away to Tokyo didnt exactly help matters, I had so much work to catch up on when I returned even though I only missed two classes! The education system here is a little more demanding than what we're used to at home. I got full marks in the History exam (check me out!) but just managed to scrape a pass in Japanese (er...not so goood). Still, I am really proud of the fact that I even passed Japanese at all, since it doesnt come easily to me. I absolutely hate Japanese classes with a passion. I always feel like a complete idiot in them not understanding why sentences are structured the way they are and the different particles that link them while everyone else is umming and ahhing in recognition. With the intensive workload demanded, half of my Japanese class have already dropped the class so now we're whittled down to just 5 people, and as much as I'd love to drop it too cos it makes me feel like utter crap everyday, I cant. Its not the kind of girl I am. Stubborness works in many ways, but also I just want to kick ass and prove the unsympathetic teachers wrong especially when they expect me to fail. In my oral test feedback, the head of the department actually said something along the line of, 'oh, I am so surprised that you're still in the class'. And then he laughed. Well, thanks for the words of encouragement, love. What a friggin' .......... ?!! (please insert your choice of expletive)

And do you know what else he said, that he could sell our oral tapes in comedy stores and make a bucket because our Japanese is so bad.

Well, Im always game for a challenge and the gloves are on! I'm going to bury myself in the textbooks and stay in that class just to piss him off and prove him wrong.