Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Is it hot in here?

Okay, so, keep in mind that this is coming from a girl who in all her life has never been in a class with more than fifty people (probably more like forty), so my experience is a bit biased, I think.
The way my program thingy works is: I go to class either in the mornings or the afternoons, some days both. Morning class is from 8:30 to 12:30, afternoon class is from 1:30 to 5:30. Each always have a 20 minute break in the middle, so you don't always want to kill yourself by the end. There are really specific "classes-" every class is just "French." There are, however, ten different groups to account for students ability to cope with the language. I am in group 6 Monday through Friday, and in 5 on Thursdays and Fridays. It's the (almost) perfect fit for me (as I mentioned before, 5 is a little easy). My teacher, when we got our tests back today, said that I should consider going to group 7 instead of 5 on the two days, but since we only have one week left and, as far as I know, group 7 is pretty full, I'm probably going to end up staying where I am.
Anyway, the point is, group 6 is getting really full, too. Like, more students than there are chairs. There are still only like 25 students, but for me that seems like WAY too many. I like my classes to number 16 and under. This is going to be a problem if I ever become involved in a program that includes a lot of people. For me, I like knowing the students, the teacher, and being able to make myself heard (hello! theatre major for a reason!) so when I start feeling crowded in class, I start paying less attention to what is happening. I'm pretty sure that if you graphed it, my attention span would produce an exact negative correlation compared with the number of people in the class.
(I got this from the internet- it's not mine).
What I wish is that there could be more groups. Or at least that they would limit the number of students in each class a little more. But hey, at least I'm learning French, right?

We got ours tests from last week back (finally), and I got a 15/20- which in America is super bad, but in France is an A! (I got a 13/20 on my presentation on Edgar Degas, and was freaking out until I realized that they "do things differently" here. A 13 is a B+).
Anyway, now, I need to go write a letter to the g-rents since I haven't actually done that yet.
À Bientôt!

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