No me gusta mi clase de espanol

[Élistariel]

:rant:
Okay, Wednesday was the last day of class. We had an oral exam. Anyhow, after I finish my exam, the instructor tells me that in order to get a C, I have to do "the workbook excercises for chapters 4,5, and 6 along with a small paper."
Okay, the paper? Yeah, I DID THAT!!! I physically handed it to her, as in:
I have the paper for you to check. (it was the rough draft).
It is in my hand
Here you go
Now it is in your hands
LITERALLY handed it to HER...
She lost my paper! :razz: She says she doesn't lose anything, right...
The workbook excercises? That was the first I had heard of them. EVER. She never mentioned them in class, they were NEVER on the board. I checked the website, didn't see a damn thing about workbook excercises. :bangyourh
Oh, and the site is in spanish. Now I know it's a Spanish class, but it's level two. I only had a level one vocabulary. MINIMAL! I had to use the freaking babelfish translator on altavista to read the blasted thing. :bastard:

Arrrgh! I knew more the first day of class than I do now.
I can't believe she just NOW, (Wed) told me about all this missed work.
WTF??? :wtf:
So, now I'm trying to do the workbook stuff and run to school to give it to her. I don't even know her office hours! :awilly:

I could have dropped this class! I thought I was doing okay in it. Like "B" okay, or high "C" at least. She never posted our grades, so I didn't really know. Gah. I'm thinking about just taking the freakin D or F, or whatever.
:flamer:

Don't get me wrong, she's a really sweet person, but sometimes. I just... :collapse:

[BrigidMoon]

Is this for college or HS? If it's for HS, get your parents involved with the principal and talk to your counselor. This happened to me too. Turned out the teacher was a jerk and weeded out those that she didn't like in her classes.

[Élistariel]

Is this for college or HS? If it's for HS, get your parents involved with the principal and talk to your counselor. This happened to me too. Turned out the teacher was a jerk and weeded out those that she didn't like in her classes.

college! It's a Wednesday only night class. The woman is from Spain so she knows her spanish very very well. The thing is, half the class can't understand her when she speaks english, so that's no help either. Also, there have been times when she got her english wrong...

thanks for listening...

[SandStorm]

I'm from Spain too, if you have any question you can ask me :D

[BrigidMoon]

college! It's a Wednesday only night class. The woman is from Spain so she knows her spanish very very well. The thing is, half the class can't understand her when she speaks english, so that's no help either. Also, there have been times when she got her english wrong...

thanks for listening...

I'd go to the dean about it then. I mean, if she's going to loose your stuff....that'd simply piss me off.

[Élistariel]

Nah, besides it's just a little community college. Some kids have made A's in there. I'm just going to ignore it and take a D. If some future job requires me to speak spanish, I'll learn it my way. It's more trouble than it's worth.

on a side note... school sucks. I hate having to prove what I know. I don't like the whole cumulative grade at the end. Some days on tests... I don't do well due to outside circumstances. And we've all had those days where there was a test and something came up... the flu, cramps,... Or days when you're just bored out of your wits end, so you don't put in a monkey butt's worth of effort. Yeah, I hate having to prove what I know.

[BrigidMoon]

Nah, besides it's just a little community college. Some kids have made A's in there. I'm just going to ignore it and take a D. If some future job requires me to speak spanish, I'll learn it my way. It's more trouble than it's worth.

on a side note... school sucks. I hate having to prove what I know. I don't like the whole cumulative grade at the end. Some days on tests... I don't do well due to outside circumstances. And we've all had those days where there was a test and something came up... the flu, cramps,... Or days when you're just bored out of your wits end, so you don't put in a monkey butt's worth of effort. Yeah, I hate having to prove what I know.


Yes. It's not easy being a college student. I went back to college when I was on welfare, had an 18 month old and going through a divorce. It was NOT easy. It wasn't easy when I was 19 either. I didn't do so well. But I did it, got my paper and was set free into the professional adult world. I'd still fight it. But that's me. I'm competitive and I do NOT want to get a grade unfairly. I can be assertive and sometimes a bit tenacious and well possibly *cough* petulent. :javaswim:

[WokeUpDead]

Learning Spanish I never minded but I always hated the classes.

[BelovedDru]

No me gusta mucho either. But I just have one question for you...

DONDE ESTAS MI PANTALONES!!!!???

[Élistariel]

Yes. It's not easy being a college student. I went back to college when I was on welfare, had an 18 month old and going through a divorce. It was NOT easy. It wasn't easy when I was 19 either. I didn't do so well. But I did it, got my paper and was set free into the professional adult world. I'd still fight it. But that's me. I'm competitive and I do NOT want to get a grade unfairly. I can be assertive and sometimes a bit tenacious and well possibly *cough* petulent. :javaswim:

I'm at the point where I just want a decent enough job to own a good home. I don't need a mansion and a yacht. Just a nice small house and a cat. I didn't do the workbook stuff. I tried, then I saw how much there was, and said to hell with it. I'll take my D. It's not that big of a deal. It's not a necessary class. I can do without it.
Oh, and I'd have a job, only thing is...
All the jobs near me require at least a year's experience.
I have none.
On my "drive all over town" job hunt, all I found that I could probably do were some second shift gas station jobs.
Uh... no.. :shaker: I'm not too keen on the prospect of getting shot. No thanks. Don't need a job THAT bad...

[Dawa Lhamo]

Well, the only Spanish phrase I know isn't PG-13. ^_^ (course, the latin in my ava is just barely...)

My question is: What are your language requirements? Where I go, we have to have two semesters of a consecutive sequence in a language. Meaning my French 2 and Latin 1 don't count, thus my taking Latin 2. Here we have to get a minimum of a D- for a class to get credit, and C- in a major class. But if you have an F, then you'll need to take another language class, won't you? Not to mention what it'll do to your GPA. I'd at least file some kind of grievance so you have it on record if any future school wants to know why you did so poorly in the class. ^_^

Tashi delek!
Dawa Lhamo

[ravenmyst]

try learning Latin from a person from Japan, my daughter struggles to understand her english, having a hard time with the Latin, but she is getting there :)

[Dawa Lhamo]

try learning Latin from a person from Japan, my daughter struggles to understand her english, having a hard time with the Latin, but she is getting there :)And Latin is evil just all by itself. I shudder at the thought of learning it from someone who doesn't speak my language well...

[Élistariel]

No me gusta mucho either. But I just have one question for you...

DONDE ESTAS MI PANTALONES!!!!???

*warning, my grammar may be lacking* :tongueout

No se. Cuantos habitaciones hay en su casa? Donde estas es tu armario?

[Élistariel]

Well, the only Spanish phrase I know isn't PG-13. ^_^ (course, the latin in my ava is just barely...)

My question is: What are your language requirements? Where I go, we have to have two semesters of a consecutive sequence in a language. Meaning my French 2 and Latin 1 don't count, thus my taking Latin 2. Here we have to get a minimum of a D- for a class to get credit, and C- in a major class. But if you have an F, then you'll need to take another language class, won't you? Not to mention what it'll do to your GPA. I'd at least file some kind of grievance so you have it on record if any future school wants to know why you did so poorly in the class. ^_^

Tashi delek!
Dawa Lhamo

it's not required at all for me. I'm just a community college student. I have no intentions of going to a four year. That's just not in my budget. I took the first one to fill a "elective course" slot.

[AutumnWitchie]

:rant:
Okay, Wednesday was the last day of class. We had an oral exam. Anyhow, after I finish my exam, the instructor tells me that in order to get a C, I have to do "the workbook excercises for chapters 4,5, and 6 along with a small paper."
Okay, the paper? Yeah, I DID THAT!!! I physically handed it to her, as in:
I have the paper for you to check. (it was the rough draft).
It is in my hand
Here you go
Now it is in your hands
LITERALLY handed it to HER...
She lost my paper! :razz: She says she doesn't lose anything, right...
The workbook excercises? That was the first I had heard of them. EVER. She never mentioned them in class, they were NEVER on the board. I checked the website, didn't see a damn thing about workbook excercises. :bangyourh
Oh, and the site is in spanish. Now I know it's a Spanish class, but it's level two. I only had a level one vocabulary. MINIMAL! I had to use the freaking babelfish translator on altavista to read the blasted thing. :bastard:

Arrrgh! I knew more the first day of class than I do now.
I can't believe she just NOW, (Wed) told me about all this missed work.
WTF??? :wtf:
So, now I'm trying to do the workbook stuff and run to school to give it to her. I don't even know her office hours! :awilly:

I could have dropped this class! I thought I was doing okay in it. Like "B" okay, or high "C" at least. She never posted our grades, so I didn't really know. Gah. I'm thinking about just taking the freakin D or F, or whatever.
:flamer:

Don't get me wrong, she's a really sweet person, but sometimes. I just... :collapse:


Something simular happened to me when I was in the nursing program. In the first semester of the LPN program, we were told we would have pop quizes. Not to worry if we missed a pop quiz. All the pop quizes would be averaged up for an extra test grade.....pop quizes really wouldn't hurt us...they would help us. I came out of the first semester with a 3.2, no problem. The second semester we were told that one of our instructors had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would not be there all the time. During second semester I missed about four pop quizes because I had to leave school early due to ice building on the highways(southeastern N.C. doesn't get many ice storms so when we do, it makes traveling bad). I left because I lived 45 minutes away on back roads and didn't need to get stranded because of ice. When I went in to register for summer classes after I got my final exam scores(87 in medical/surgical nursing, 92 in pharmacology) the instructors pulled me into conference. I was informed that I had missed my average by a 1.7(had to have an 80 overall at this college). I was shocked and wanted to know how. I had been keeping track of my test scores and had all my homework that had been handed back. According to my calculations I had a B average going into final exams. I was told that my missed pop quizes had added up to 4 zeros. I was also informed that I failed to hand in a paper on the digestive tract. Now I know I handed this paper in because I had to hand it in late because I was late to class the morning it was due and I had watched the instuctor mark it with a red -5(it was the instuctor who was being treated for cancer). I was never given or told anything about the pop quiz rules changing from the first semester to the 2nd. The paper in question counted as a big project zero against me. I knew I had handed it in but it was my word against the instructor's. So, by 1.7 points my nursing dreams died. Yes, I'm a little bitter but considering that I had lived for and obsessed about becoming a nurse I have a right to be upset. I worked 30 - 40 hours a week in a Winn Dixie deli bakery, did all the cleaning and most of the cooking for my mother and father to pay rent and keep my father's insurance on me, put up with my father's mental and physical abuse and his control freak thing so he would help pay for college. Will I ever go back? No. That chapter is closed. I would only go into nursing now for the financial benefit and I swore many years ago that I'd never be one of those nurses in it just for the money.

[BelovedDru]

*warning, my grammar may be lacking* :tongueout

No se. Cuantos habitaciones hay en su casa? Donde estas es tu armario?

LOL! Now for my REALLY bad Spanish answer...

Mi armario? No tiene el armario! Mi pantalones son aqui en mi piso, creo que. Pero, mi queso es muy grande. Y tu? (and yes, I know what that means! *laughs*)

And now I think I'll stop bothering you before my brain explodes. :alol:

[Élistariel]

LOL! Now for my REALLY bad Spanish answer...

Mi armario? No tiene el armario! Mi pantalones son aqui en mi piso, creo que. Pero, mi queso es muy grande. Y tu? (and yes, I know what that means! *laughs*)

And now I think I'll stop bothering you before my brain explodes. :alol:

*doesn't know what piso, or creo que mean*

Si, tengo un amario. Mi amario es mucho pequeno. No me gusta mi amario. Mi apartamento es pequeno. Es mucho mucho pequeno.
Soy de norte de carolina, y tu?
Comes la naranja?

[BelovedDru]

Well...piso is supposed to be floor...and I didn't know what 'I think' is...so I took creo que si which is I think so and just took off si...LOL! I told you it'd be bad...

Anywho...

Soy de virginia de oestes.
Si! Me gusta las naranjas!

[RowanMegaera]

Personally, I love languages, however, I was horrified to learn that despite seven years of highschool and college level French classes (two semesters each year in conversation and composition) I would still be required to take two semesters of Spanish. I really don't mind, I had two years of Spanish in highschool umpteen years ago and I still use it pretty frequently so it was pretty easy this semester.

As far as the missing papers go, I can feel your pain. Yesterday my english comp teacher came to me with my grade and pointed out that it was significantly lower than she wanted it to be because I am, in her words, "An 'A' writer" She said it was because I did not turn in my informative research paper. I begged to differ, yes I turned it in late, while she was out of town for a conference, she told me to hand it in to the english department office and she would take off the required 5 points for being late. Fine, I can live with -5 points for my evil procrastination habit. So, I went into the department office with my neatly bound, 5 page, MLA style research paper complete with annotated photocopies of all sources used. There was no secretary at the desk, so I asked the person standing to the side of the office behind the counter and was told to put it in an interoffice envelope with my teacher's name on it and set it on the counter and it would be placed in the appropriate mailbox.

Well, my teacher and I went down to the office where we were informed by the ever so helpful administrative professional behind the desk that there is no way she was not at her desk when I came in (several weeks ago at lunch time, I might add) and that when a student turns in a paper, they are stamped, logged and placed immediately in the teacher's box.

I offered my instructor a photocopy of exactly what I had turned in, I had it in my folder for the class. She told me I was SOL because there was no record I had ever turned the paper in. BLERGH!

[RowanMegaera]

Oh, and I had my final exam for spanish today, and immediately started off on the wrong foot. The first portion of the exam was the oral presentation... My instructor gave me my topic and I smiled and immediately rattled off the appropriate answer in perfect FRENCH. He laughed and responded in French that I needed to say the same thing, in Spanish, for the grade. After that, I think I did well enough, though I did go completely blank on ese, este and aquel for some silly reason.

[PoisonIvy]

Una cervesa porfavor! :drinking:

[SandStorm]

XD XD Aw, man, and I thought that my English washorrible XD XD XD


DONDE ESTAS MI PANTALONES!!!!???

¿¿¡¡ Dónde están mis pantalones!!??


Mi armario? No tiene el armario! Mi pantalones son aqui en mi piso, creo que. Pero, mi queso es muy grande. Y tu? (and yes, I know what that means! *laughs*)

I'm so NOT going to ask what is doing a "queso" there... XD XD


*doesn't know what piso, or creo que mean*

Piso = flat, apartment,... yep, also can mean floor.
And the "creo que" would be perfect if it were at the beginning of the sentence (and change "son" to "están").

Any more doubts...?
¿Alguna duda más?... XD

[BrigidMoon]

I'm at the point where I just want a decent enough job to own a good home. I don't need a mansion and a yacht. Just a nice small house and a cat. I didn't do the workbook stuff. I tried, then I saw how much there was, and said to hell with it. I'll take my D. It's not that big of a deal. It's not a necessary class. I can do without it.
Oh, and I'd have a job, only thing is...
All the jobs near me require at least a year's experience.
I have none.
On my "drive all over town" job hunt, all I found that I could probably do were some second shift gas station jobs.
Uh... no.. :shaker: I'm not too keen on the prospect of getting shot. No thanks. Don't need a job THAT bad...

Agreed. I'm proud of you for having a job AND going to college. It's not easy!
:graduate:

[Élistariel]

Agreed. I'm proud of you for having a job AND going to college. It's not easy!
:graduate:

Whoa, hold up, rewind. I don't have a job. I said I was looking for one. :lol: I've never had one, so it's that much harder trying to find one. I hope to have one over the summer semester since there is only one class I can take.