Woo Hoo!!!

[the_other_sandy]

I just got my first writing assignment and first test back in my Spanish class. I got 3 out of 3 points on the writing assignment and 30 out of 30 points on the test, plus 2 out of 3 extra credit points!

::runs around shrieking::

Seriously, you have no idea how huge this is. I barely passed high school Spanish. In fact, the only reason I passed high school Spanish was that if I failed, I'd have to repeat the class and my Spanish teacher never wanted to see me again. I never in a million billion years thought I could do this well in a foreign language class.

::does Snoopy dance::

I wish I could find my high school Spanish teacher and show him this test just to watch him faint.

Comments

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

I think this speaks to just how bad a teacher in high school he was.

Go you!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Part of it was him (he really was a lousy teacher), but part of it was me, too. I also took Russian in college. I did better there (mostly 'B's), but I was only able to parrot things back long enough to do well on the test. I wasn't really understanding and absorbing the material. I certainly didn't retain any of it. Foreign languages are just not an easy subject for me.

The class I'm taking now is being taught very differently from the classes I've had before. I guess I just needed to find a class format that best suited my learning style, which is what I was fortunate enough to do here. I'm actually having fun in a foreign language class for the first time ever. I hope this instructor teaches the next class in the series, too.