Starting off a really tough college semester.

[roadoffew]

here I am in my 5th year of college and the stress I received since Wednesday of this week has left me drained. I had such a break down friday that I busted a bed frame and broke two wheels on my computer chair which now sites on two props to keep it lever.

I'll spare the details of one of the things that stressed me (which is now cleared but yet waiting for resolve over a holiday weekend) and tell you about the one that is still stressing me. I had Japanese 101 last semester. They give us teachers/students to work with and this one was doing this for the first time. She would speak to us in English and go over the material and work on our speech and key phrases. Come the final, which is a webcam question and answer quiz with someone out of state, and me and at least one other guy was surprised at the speed the tester read and also forgot key phrases and where just fustrated with the hole thing. He got a C and I got a D which was a miracle. So i decide to take part two this semester. Me and two other guys enter the class last Thursday to a teacher who spoke Japanese through the entire class period rarely breaking from it even when we had questions in english. Not only that but here speed was so fast I could barely make out what she said let alone think of how to answer since we never worked on forming our own sentences in Japanese. AND she when writing on the board she would use Kanji along with her hiragana, something ELSE we never touched on in the first part.

To put the whole thing in a short sentence, I've got a japanese class that works on the "throw them into the water and hope that while they are drowning they learn how to swim" tactic of teaching a language. This plus a class with LOT of info to read AND the fact that I'm in need of a job which I will have little available time to work for because of class scheduling.

I hope you can read through all of that typo filled mess. I am worried to death about everything. It has not looked hopeful for me for months.

[Tsukuyomi]

I pray that all goes well ^__^

Is there a study group you can study with outside of class ^__^? There's a few basic Japanese tuts here and other places online ^__^

If it's really stressful for you, are you able to take another class ^__^? Or, is it a done deal o_o?

[roadoffew]

If it's really stressful for you, are you able to take another class ^__^? Or, is it a done deal o_o?

with as much money my mom puts up for me and my college, dropping a class already paid for is out of the question. Sure there is the whole refund thing I could get but I really want to learn Japanese.