Friday, May 25, 2007

   essay (work in progress)...bank holiday...Blood+
so. bellyache vanished, and I´m feeling a lot better now. But yeah, this essay really sucks. I mad a rough outline of it in the train home today, now I´ll see what I can make out of it. Nah...it really sucks. You just hear everybody aks: hey, did you do the essay? well, to my defense I can tell you most poeple haven´t done it yet :p
Ok, monday is bank holiday here so I have three days to write it. Hope I can do something...hmm...acceptable...
Then I have absolutely to do something about the kanji. Now we´re receiving the last pages, so I think I should concentrate on the old ones right now. I´ll also start with this verb list with my collegue and then I´ll do some translation...ah. Horrible. Lenguages really get on your nerves when your near the exams. They told us now that if you don´t pass the first exam, the second one will be nearly double as difficult as the first one. I don´t really care about most exams, but the grammar one will be hell on earth!! I really fear that if I don´t pass it the first time..the second...x_x have to repeat some grammer too this weekend...

so, now some secrets revealed about myself...some people asked me if I am German (´cause I tend to mention books I read at the moment...hehe). Well, this is not the case. Actually I have a bit mixed family tree...(what concerns nationality). So, on of my grandpas was Swiss, the other Portuguese and both happened to emograte to Venezuela (so both my grandmas are/were Venezuelan), where I was born btw. Then, when I was about one year old, my parents emigrated to Switzerland and I grew up here. Until now I´ve only been two times back to Venezuela and only for short time. So I learned German, English and French at school, speak Spanish with my parents and speak Swissgerman with my collegues (Swissgerman is sorta modified German...like really old German...hm. It´s more a dialect. Every Kanton (a Kanton is like a state in the US)has its own dialect, even some regions have, and then there are some Kantons where there are two lenguages spoken (German and French), as the four lenguages spoken in Switzerland are German (and Swissgerman when you speak with a person), French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romance). My French is hmm...average. I mostly kept it up because of the mangas...they´re sometimes chepear in French than in German...lol But I´d hate reading a book in French, I prefer German and English...I like reading in Spanish, but it´s not so easy to find a good book in Spanish, because there are not so much Spanish bookstores in Switzerland (though there are some good ones). Well, my English is like what I write down here, so it isn´t that good but I think you can understand it? :p German is the lenguage I have the most experience with it, since it´s the lenguage we use at school. But I have to say that since I study Japanese and am seeing so much animes translated in English I sometimes look at a word in German and ask myself: Is this really written like this? Or I have to think about how to write a word....o_o but there are other people in my class saying this happens to them too, seems like an overdose of lenguages lol

ok, have to go to the Iaido class...and after taht I´ll probably watch some more episodes of Blood+ (you sure asked yourself why it was in the title when I didn´t mention it such a long time, huh? :p). So, have a great time and see ya around!! ^_____^
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