summercomfort | (no subject)

I did it! yay! I dropped Spanish 202 and signed on for Readings in Literary Chinese. There's (including me) 3 people in the class, and the other 2 are grad students. The "class" is held in his office (he gives us munchies from his fridge!), and we're basically reading through this set of reports etc from different sources detailing a local rebellion in the late Qing dynasty. Very cool. Especially for little first-year me to be sitting with Mr. Alitto, and Steven and Brother Paul (he's a Jesuit). Anyway, it's on TuThu from 1:30-2:50, so now I only have remedial math on MWF, and all my exciting classes on TuThu. So now with most of my classes on TuThu, plus the cool clubs (anime and art.. hee), TuThu will be busy walking around days, while MWF will be do homework days.

And why did I decide to quit Spanish? Well, yesterday, after my second class, I realized a few things:
1) The class is hard, in bad ways. I like reading Spanish, but not the silly grammar things we're learning. (I wasn't enjoying it)
2) The stuff we're learning, I'd much rather learn in French, or Japanese, or German, or Russian.
3) This is a freakin' ELECTIVE class. A language elective!
4) I don't see Spanish in my future. I *do* see French (there's still the lengua franca thing among scholars... my hum reading quoted in FRENCH, whole paragraphs of it, and didn't bother to provide a translation.... this keeps happening to me, doesn't it?)
5) I don't want to start a new language first quarter. Plus there aren't any classes still open that doesn't mess with my other classes.

Anyway, muchly happy with Chinese course, the prof looks like Zhuang Yin, and I'm not in Spanish.