We had our second grammar exam on Wednesday. It was a little different to the first one. In order to revise for it, I had written out lots of rules and exceptions on my door in chalk. I used up the back of my door so I used the front too. It was kinda amusing for my corridor who clearly thought I was mental. I also taught myself 2 tenses (they were related) because it had appeared a lot in previous exercises and I thought I would need it for the exam. It did not. How irritating. However, I can now form all 15 tenses as appear in my 501 French Verbs. Hyper-cool? I think so!
Since I'd wasted time attempting to understand La Québécoite I had no time to read the book for Thursday's lecture. My solution was to find the film online and watch that instead. The lazy students' approach worked surprisingly well since in the lecture he actually compared the book to the film a fair bit. Get in. Thursday evening was blissful, in the way that I had no class to go to! I was able to spend my evening doing whatever the hell I wanted! woohoo! I actually spent the evening teaching/revising the subjunctive to/with Nicole. The use of our doors as a chalkboard is actually really useful! She got a little frustrated by some of the conditions which introduce the subjunctive so to prove to her that not all francophones have the slightest clue how to use it correctly we went to the kitchen and asked which of the following phrases lead to the subjunctive (we used je doute que, j'aimerais que, c'est une bonne idée que and je ne pense pas que) No one has yet correctly answered that all 4 should. Point proven, frustration alleviated.
I think Friday was as productive in so far as we did some food shopping. We had major issues at the checkout with our cards though. They just didn't like debit cards. Eurgh. I like having yummy food to munch on though :D Saturday morning should have brought us a contôle but something about the profs computer and printer having a fallout (that could be massively invented, I didn't really follow what she was talking about) so we didn't and instead did an exercise meant for 4 weeks time. Very bizarre. Could have been a good thing since I'd been woken up again by people on the corridor. They were very nice and did whisper and go elsewhere after I popped my head out but I had problems dropping off again. I made up for it with a nice nap afterwards. Oh yeah.
Last night was epic. Alot of people went for KFC and the cinema but we wouldn't have been ready in time so after getting pretty giddy over dinner, Nicole, Hannah and I took a round-the-houses route to Siboire (cheers Hannah). We kinda thought that was where they were going after the film but they didn't. We had a great time though! MMMM cocktails :D We had a disney sing-along in the bus station on the way back, which completely put us in the mood for prancing to music. We grabbed speakers and ipods and headed for the salon where we fond the guys. Not entirely sure whether they found our giddiness amusing or annoying but they all drifted off to bed (at fairly reasonable times), but once having the room to ourselves we cranked out Abba tunes and danced away. Nicole and I added a few decorations to people's door and in th process scared the living daylights out of Pierre-Edouard. Apparently hearing scratching on your door after having watched Paranormal Activity is pretty terrifying. Oopsy.Today, well originally I thought it would be quite lazy after such a late night last night, but Tara spotted some people playing american football and took me and Vincent to join in. It was pretty good fun actually! I had no idea who I was playing with, but it was fun! They all left after a while but Tara knew one of them so we borrowed the ball and the 3 of us had a bit of a throw about. I cannot throw properly to save my life. They spent ages trying to knock the rugby out of me and to make me catch like a footballer. Fun times. That's my exercise for the week. I think I am gonna have an epic bruise on my arm now though. Bleurgh.
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