The newness has finally worn off. Classes are now classes, and it was a little hard getting up this morning. A dog... cat ... or something cried, loudly for like an hour this morning at like 3 am. I'm not the only one, some of my students at English corner said they heard it too. It was bit ridiculous. Just a very strange night... So I was literally dragging myself through class today it felt like.
Though I did realize its time to buckle down on Chinese. I finished translating my first children's book. I even took photo's of the pictures and put them in the document for my professor. I got it back... so. many. red. marks.... I was pretty close with most of it, but my wording was a little awkward and there were some colloquial phrases I misunderstood. So its still exciting, if only a little disheartening. I did learn a lot and I was getting faster at it toward the end of the book. On to the next one! I have more tests and midterm coming in my actual chinese class too, its starting to build and all at once it seems. Its good though.
Though I did realize its time to buckle down on Chinese. I finished translating my first children's book. I even took photo's of the pictures and put them in the document for my professor. I got it back... so. many. red. marks.... I was pretty close with most of it, but my wording was a little awkward and there were some colloquial phrases I misunderstood. So its still exciting, if only a little disheartening. I did learn a lot and I was getting faster at it toward the end of the book. On to the next one! I have more tests and midterm coming in my actual chinese class too, its starting to build and all at once it seems. Its good though.
I had talked about discussing American comics vs. Manhua (manga, asian comics) and was bummed to find out that American comics are not available in Chinese, only English and they are SUPER expensive because of it. Many students have never seen an American comic they assume they are just like Manhua... Donovan mentioned like a month ago when we had orientation to English Corner that he could let me borrow some graphic novels... I never really said when I planned on doing it...
Made my day, let me tell you that.
I can't seem to find a "not scary" Halloween sort of movie for my students without being Harry Potter (which all of them seem to have seen... many times) or renting a movie for 90NT a night (5 days... not good). So it looks like I may be doing my intro to American comics next week. For the win!
Though I am worried about class registration for next semester at SVSU. Registration is WAY early this year, October 29th. I am teetering between junior and senior which changes my registration time. If they don't count this semesters credits, I'm still a junior... if they do I'm a senior... and it changes my time and the classes that I can get into. If I miss my registration time I have to wait for everyone in school to register until it ends and open registration starts... Alot of classes for my degree fill up fast (not a lot of sections) and hopefully I get into the building I wanted to for dorms. I moved my housing contract from fall to winter and they were forced to give the room I was assigned away (understandable I wasn't using it)... but I will be upset if I get put in more expensive housing after I put down the money for a certain building... that should be fine though... I was told I could always move if I'm not where I want to be. It should work out, but its a little worrying...
BUT on a lighter note, I want to share another video for you guys. This one is by an English band by the name of Transition. The music video was filmed in Taiwan and apparently a few years ago, the band visited Shih Hsin. The song is in Chinese with English subtitles and we sang in Chinese class. Its super cute.
The song's title is Dui Bu Qi, Wo De Zhongwen Bu Hao (sorry, my chinese is bad).
