after weeks of transition states and R and S configurations and beta courbes and ridiculous nervous systems, it’s over. whee, no more drawing microscope slides, no more useless organisms. sadly no more ‘organic chem’ lessons.
it’s a huge relief having finished the presentation. presenting in french is so stressful when those ppl are native french speakers and it’s not a language lesson. i guess they were pretty amused by it. just like us hearing westerners speak chinese. it’s funny, in a good way. anyhow the rite of passage is over, haha.
i do hope i get good lecturers for the other two modules. i cant stand the guy today who rambled on and on about pharmaco theories, and we have to try to write down what he says, which is near impossible coz how the hell do you listen and write at the same time, + translate into english. or actually the most difficult part is trying to figure out what word is he using because evidently i haven’t heard 1/3 of that vocab before. i guess it would be doable if i was comfortable in the language. anyhow it was so long and draggy and boring that the other students got tired of it too. and what’s more i’ve already learnt some of those theories before, i seriously doubt whether they can understand it. it did take me a decent number of lecture hours to figure out pharmaco concepts and equations. mainly coz they use some ridiculous logic and bizarre circular equations. weird ppl. the organic chem portion of the module makes so much more sense, imho.
if you don’t see me around/online for the next few days, i’m away in geneva/grenoble. rather last minute thing, largely precipitated by Geneva Motor Show and cheap skiing/snowing. yay car show babes, no, the M3 Cabriolet and the funky ferrari and the weird mazda car attracts me more.
i think i need to stop and do some revision / homework. oops.
and wordpress 2.5 will be released next week. great, i’ll be glad of an updated interface.
do you ever get the feeling that english just sounds so weird? french makes more sense. at the very least they have a very clear idea of where all the exceptions (to standard grammer rules) are. we ought to get proper english lessons. argumentative essays, descriptive essays… i suppose it’s different to learn a language at an adult age.
babbling in a foreign tongue feels much more incompetent than cooking disasters.
and i really need to get past this 5 or 6 hrs of sleep trend.
and the profs were also so amused by us that they have said “do you understand” and “bye bye”, in english. amusement. ah but none of them have tried chinese yet.
interesting it is not apparent when there are Erasmus students around, since they dont look different from normal french students. but there are also quite a number of asiatiques who have been in paris for some years and speak french well. (i had to think for a few seconds to find a word for ‘asiatiques’, i guess it’s ‘asians’ but it doesnt seem to have the same nuance)