More Spanish Drama

Spanish grammar is going to be the death of me. First was the discovery that double negatives are grammatically correct in Spanish. It took a lot of work to overcome the English programming that double negatives are wrong before I was able to write them semi-comfortably. Then came the preterite tense, where there are more verbs that are exceptions to the rules than there are those that follow the rules. I never thought I was going to be able to get those down in time for the test. I still have trouble with them.

Now we're working on object pronouns. That doesn't sound hard, does it? Sentence structure is fairly simple: Subject Verb Object, right? Well, yes, but in Spanish, you can also have Object Verb Subject and (this one kills me) Subject Object Verb. I feel like I'm trying to work one of those sliding tile puzzles where you have to put the numbers in order. First, I have to reorder the words so they make sense to me, and then I get to figure out what they mean.

I also had two unpleasant surprises this week. In all our previous units, our worksheets were due on the day of the chapter test, which is next Monday. Yesterday, I found out that the worksheets for this unit are due tomorrow. So much for the basking in Heroes squee I had planned for this evening. Also, in all our previous units, we had a pop quiz at the end of the last class before the test, so I was expecting a quiz tomorrow night. We had it last night, instead. Oops. I was not expecting it at all, but I think I did reasonably well. I know I got two answers wrong for sure, but I'm also sure that I got both of the extra credit questions right, so hopefully those will balance each other out.

I would be counting down the days until the end of the semester, except I have a major exam every class period but one between Thanksgiving and the end of the term. I'm contemplating sleeping through the first half of January.