Thursday, December 8th: SPJ Oral Exam
Ethics Final Due
Friday, December 9th: RWJ Reading Exam
Monday, December 12th: RWJ Final Written Test
Tuesday, December 13th: SPJ Final Written Test
Wednesday, December 14th: Popular Culture Final In-Class Exam
Why do we have lesson tests right before/during final tests? Good question. Wish I had an answer. Maybe because they want us to pull our hair out by its roots? 'Cause that's the result they're currently getting.
So, yeah, this weekend was spent studying. No really, I did. I even woke up earlier than normal on weekends and stared at vocab lists while I ate breakfast. I had a brief (couple of hours) excursion into Osaka for the last of my Christmas gifts. (No, Mother, I will not tell you what they are. You'll just have to wait.)
Well, I need to go study some more. I've got not one, but two tests today after all. Sorry for the short post.
Update:
I know I just posted this like 2 hours ago, but I thought you'd all like to hear how my tests have gone so far. The SPJ lesson test was disturbingly easy. First, for the listening comprehension part, the computer hook-up thingy-ma-bob wasn't working so she read it out loud, which means it was MUCH slower than normal and therefore easier to understand. Also, after the listening comp. it was only two pages of fill in the dialogue/sentence with appropriate grammar, maybe 10-12 sentences in all. In other words much shorter than most of our lesson tests. I think she was taking pity on us. :)
In RWJ class, we got our lesson tests back, and I did pretty good: 45/50. I made a really stupid mistake though! In the part where we are given hiragana and have to give the kanji or vice versa, I left one of them blank. I knew the kanji! I just didn't see the blank spot when I first went through the test OR when I checked everything! :(
The essay (作文、さくぶん, sakubun) test was harder than I though it would be. On Friday he said that we would be able to choose from three topics: a Japanese experience, a worry/giving advice, and a personal ad. (Side note: those are the topics of the last three readings in the book; they didn't come out of nowhere.) For part of my studying on Saturday, I wrote up an essay for each of those topics, as practice and so I could figure out what vocab I would need. I had decided to write about going to Hirakata Park as my Japanese experience and was planning on using that as it was the most interesting of the three and used the most grammar points. Unfortunately, he changed up the topics on us. :( The experience one was actually write about your most interesting and least interesting experiences in Japan. I went with this one and was still about to use most of the Hirakata Park essay. I said it was my least interesting experience, on the grounds that it was an amusement park and all amusement parks are basically the same-rides, games, junk food, etc. I used my trip to Nara with my host family as my most interesting, as it was something that I wouldn't find in America. However, about half-way through writing about that, the bell rang, and I had to do a quick wrap-up. I left it with the sentence that at first sounded like an odd ending, but on second thought actually makes a whole lot of sense: Watch out for the deer! (Really good advice to keep in mind if you ever go.) Then I slapped down a quick, both-days-were-very-fun-Japan-is-awesome type sentence and handed it in. I didn't write as much lenghth-wise as I would have for an essay in English, but there was lots of erasing and rewriting to make the kanji look nice. (It's Reading and WRITING class after all.) So, my hand was a bit numb as I left class, but it has recovered now, thanks for asking.
Now, onto the Ethics final!
Good luck and all that jazz. I know you will do well on your finals.
ReplyDeleteDid you connect with the CM Consultant in Osaka? Just curious!! You know us scrapbookers!!!!
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