D-Day Approaches

[the_other_sandy]

I start Spanish classes at the local community college tomorrow. Which means that tonight, I get to have an 'OMG, I haven't sat in a classroom or taken a test or gotten graded on anything in 11 years' freakout, accompanied by an 'OMG, Spanish was my worst class in high school' freakout. The day of my first Spanish final in high school, I threw up for 2 hours and the school sent me home.

The icing on the cake is that I got an email today from my instructor. It's a good thing I checked my campus email. Nobody had email when I was an undergrad, and email was so new when I was in grad school that none of my professors were really on board with it yet. Anyway, my Spanish instructor wants us to show up for class tomorrow night with our textbook. However, she didn't pass along any handy information like what the title is. Meanwhile, I barely have enough time to come home after work, change clothes, and eat dinner before I head to class anyway, but I have to head out early tomorrow to try to find the campus bookstore and hope they know which textbook I need. ::runs about waving hands in the air:: Sorry, I was having a Rodney McKay moment there.

Please don't let this suck. Please don't let this suck. Please don't let this suck.

Comments

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

Don't freak, you'll do fine! And I'm sure the campus bookstore will know what textbooks you need as long as you know your class number. I can honestly say I have no idea what it's like to learn Spanish... I took French. What I do recall in high school was two different orals in the same class, one for the exam and the other for IB which is like AP... but for one I did the oral part after finding out that my mom's great great Aunt had died (granted I never knew her but it still threw me off) and I ended up redoing the oral another day on a different topic. And for my final oral presentation I had to finish preparing and do it while I had a migraine, I couldn't just go home I had to recall verbs and nouns and try and pronounce things correctly. It was horrible. I hated French completely and had nothing to do with it for three years while I was in college until this last year I had to do my foreign language and I ended up getting a B+ and an A. I think you'll do good, just keep your spirits up.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

You had to remind me of the orals. I hated the orals. I've never successfully rolled an 'R' in my life. My high school Spanish teacher used to ridicule me in front of the whole class for my complete inability to roll an 'R'. Why couldn't my boss need me to speak Japanese? I can pronounce Japanese; I don't have to roll anything.

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

I think it was the R rolling that helped convince me to not take spanish. Of course with french you have the whole nasal thing. I remember my french one teacher saying that my accent was perfect the one day I had a cold and couldn't breathe through my nose.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Hee. My best score ever on a Russian test was when I had bronchitis and the school health center had me dosed up on codeine cough syrup to the tune of 2 teaspoons 4 times a day. People were boggling that I was upright, but I did great on that test.