Latin and Rilke

[mothwing]

I passed the Latin test!

I don't have any definite results yet, though, because the papers had to be passed from our teacher, who corrected them, to her Professor, who corrected them again, to the Dean, who has to sign them. I never knew it was such a big deal! It's only and exam, but because it's also the first "Latinum", it seems to be more of a  big deal than I would have anticipated.

Silke and I came to collect our results, but they couldn't tell us anything so I called our dear Professor at home. I don't like calling teachers, seriously. She was very nice, though, and let us know that we had both passed (much to our relief) and asked us if we liked the course and if we had at least some fun. I told her that we did and that we were also going to see her again in Latin  III. She was really happy about that. Oooh, I love her, she is such a nice woman. Absolutely kind and gentle. I'm really looking forward to the third course!

I rewarded myself with Rainer Maria Rilke's collected poems - boy, it was hard to make that decision! I hung around in that bookstore for hours, walking to and fro between the Rilke (useful), Marias' A Heart So White (have been wanting it for ages) and Kundera's Identitiy (craaaaaaave!), until the shopkeeper started hanging around me to see if I was stealing anything. Well, I was about to steal Plays Pleasant and Plays Unpleasant, by Shaw, that's true. I'd love to see them performed, though. Maybe they available on tape somewhere... hm. 

Now, I'm going to attack the scary mildew with a brush as per instruction and see if it's dead (hopefully). It sounds like a bad idea to brush it off the wall, because that's bound to send spores flying everywhere, but that's what it says on the bottle. Hm.

Comments

[firenightingale.livejournal.com]

Congratulations & well done!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thank you!

[count-tygath.livejournal.com]

Congrats on passing and yay for rewarding yourself a little, afterwards. :)

*hugs*

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'm glad to hear you like your teacher and will keep her for the next course. This whole double-correction stuff really is annoying.

I'll have to buy Shaw's Plays Pleasant and Plays Unpleasant for my English course this semester. I'd love to have the Rilke poems, though, too...

Eww, mildewy walls *shudders* had that last year, stupid old walls here. I guess you kill the fungi with that stuff so there won't be any spores. It never came back at my place after that procedure. Good luck!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) The double- or in this case triple-correction stuff really sucks. Ah, well, as long as we DO get the results eventually, I'm fine.

Oooh, lovely! We ought to swap. :P I'd have loved to do the Shaw-course. Stupid semester.

I do hope that stuff does it's job and all the spores do get killed. I really don't fancy having to do that over and over again.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

My Latin teacher promised to email us once we could come and pick up our tests... he never did. He wasn't a good teacher, either.

For swapping I should start studying German... some things will simply stay personal interest ;)

I'll keep my fingers crossed for your fight against bad fungi!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Oooh dear, who was that? I'll avoid him. Oh, wait, that's the last Latin course. Bit of a shame, really.
... Not really, though. It's too much work for lazy me.

I meant the books. :D Although I guess I'll just stick with the online versions until I can afford copies.

Thanks! :D

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

I don't think that Latin tacher is teaching courses any more after the ratings we gave him...

Oh, yes. Swapping books instead of courses does make sense. *coughs* There are online versions? Hmmm... I'll stick to my Rilke Project CDs for the time being, I guess. And work through Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession as Greiner will impose a test on us in the first lesson *frets*

[bronnyelsp.livejournal.com]

Congrats, clever girl!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thanks!