noelia_g

Unfortunately ;)

But yeah, figured that this journal hadn't seen an update on the elusive thing called Real Life in a long time.

1. Work. As in, back to.

Classes are slowly starting, students coming back. I have mostly the same groups I had last year: the middle schoolers, the older kids (11-13 year olds), and my favourite group, a bunch of ladies over 60 who are just beyond awesome.

Yesterday I started with a new group, 5 and 6 year olds, and they're unbelievably fun and really, really tiring. Expect some stories when I get to know them better.

(Just one now.
Me: What's your favourite colour?
Ania: Duck.
Me: That's not a colour.
Ania: *disgruntled* Says you.)

2. School. As in, can't live without.

So, got my MA in English Lit and figured well, what do you do with an MA in English?

Apparently, try out for the MA programme in American Studies. Took the exam and got in, and now I'm back to full-time studies. How I'll manage with my job I have NO IDEA but the list of electives is awesome and I already signed up for the History of Women in the US and Canada, and for the American Approach to Warfare and other awesome stuff. Will keep you posted on that.

3. Everything else. As in, I should have some social life but I don't.

See: no time. (There's a party this Saturday, though. So there's that.)

I got into the postgrad programme I wanted. Now I will not have a single free day till August. I'm surprisingly happy about this, but it may be that I'm high on chocolate I just had.

The classes start next week, but the classes for the MA English Lit (my last year, I'm both excited and sad) start this week. My class schedule sucks and blows but that will not stop me from being excited.

Work is hectic, like every time the new school year starts, but I love the kids I have this year, they're an entertaining bunch.

I'm behind on a lot, especially flist and fics and tv, but I'll make up for it as things begin to slow down. Which may be next year.

Love you, flist <3

Got back the results from the last week's test. It was a normal, fun vocabulary test, not complicated at all. The only question I did get wrong was the one where they asked what a galleon is.

Well, I know it's a ship, of course, and that's what I should have written. But I wrote that it's a form of currency.

So, the only point I lost was for confusing reality with Harry Potter verse.

I am made of equal amounts of win and fail, clearly.

Thank you all for the good luck wishes yesterday, they helped greatly :)

So.
Thesis defense: 5 (which is the Polish equivalent of an A)
Final grade, which is an average of thesis defense exam, all exams for the last three years, grades from teaching practice, grade for the thesis, and grades for Practical English: 5.0

NO, SERIOUSLY, I apparently got 5.0 average.

I will go away now. And squee happily in the corner. *hugs all*

Subjects signed off: 4/8
Final exams: 3/5
Final projects finished: 4/4
Thesis status: DONE. Tomorrow will take it to the place where they will bind it and put a nice cover on it.
Days left till the Zero Hour: 13
Teaching Practice: what is teaching practice? DONE forever, kthxbye.

The Skills exam today (consisting of Reading and Use of English) was incredibly easy. Or deceptively easy. But I finished an hour before the end, and with a certainty that I did well.

Day after tomorrow, literature. To which I should go and revise. Or, well, xerocopy my notes for the rest of the group and go through them highlighting the stuff we actually did in classes, and which isn't my additional studies for the MA entrance exam. Because I am a nice person. Sigh.

Tomorrow, Speaking. To which I refuse to study, because, please. I'll ace it.

Dear flist, ignore this one. These are my notes for History of English exam that I want to share with other people from my group, and LJ is quite accessible and easy to update, duh.
So, ignore this. (well, unless you are *really* interested, then whatever. And I know some people on my flist are indeed studying English Philology, or are going to, so, if you find this helpful in some way, even better)

( borrowings )

( historical outline )

( processes )

If you have anything to add, please, do so in comments.
And good luck :D

I'm still alive. And still buried under stuff. I hate the last weeks of semester with vengeance.
School sucks.
I'll be back to actually doing stuff (artbattles, I know, sorry, Jill and Cala. I just suck.) and commenting on your entries and actually posting and so on... after next week. Well, around the beginning of February, I suppose, because then I have my exams and then I have three weeks break, weeeeeeeee.
And Mom is going to France at that time so I have break and house to myself.
Anyone visits Poland at the time? I'm totally inviting you over :]

Oh. Wanted to ask, because you guys proabbly know better than I do.
*Last names of Kennedy, Vi and Rona. Were they ever mentioned?
*How does canon stand on what Xander does post-Chosen? I have sth about Africa stuck in my mind, but that could be fics.
*What do we know about Giles' place in England? He has a house, or sth? Where did he live during s6?
*Dates check: s7 ended in 2003, right? And Buffy, Willow and Xander where around 22 by the time? And Dawn was what, 16?
*Did Robson (if I got the name right... *sigh*) survive the Bringers? He's still alive when the Bringer takes the swing at Giles, right?
*How old is Faith? I think there are no canon mentions, but what are your guesses?
*And a non-buffy related: what are the biggest New York daily papers? NY Times, obviously... what else?
And no, I'm not writing a fic. And it's not Giles/Xander for the ficathon. And it did not just go plotty on me.
*sigh*
All I wanted to write was a linguistic angst (no, seriously, I had all the fun linguistic trivia and stuff prepared...). And it went rom-com.
*heavy sigh*

Also, totally unrelated. Does anyone know the address of a webpage where all recent articles from almost all English magazines were listed? I can't even remember the name of the page... and google is being unhelpful.

Also again. BSG. HEEEEEE. Lost. I love Eko. Supernatural. Freakin' awesome show. Gilmore Girls. I wasn't so much in love with a character since Giles, seriously, major Luke!love.

Also numero something-something. I had enough of winter. Please stop now.

See ya guys *hugs*
*goes back to writing French essay, preparing Philosophy presentation and studying to Skills exam*

ETA OMG go and read this. I've just noticed it was posted for me over at serenity_santa. Delayed, but OMG was it worth waiting.