Today as I was walking home from class (which I will explain about it in a bit) I thought about how lucky I was to be able to speak English. English is really a beautiful language, I love how I can take words and mix them together to make meaningful thought provoking ideas come to other people's attention. I love that I can understand how other people are thinking and suggest things with such complexity that only certain words can convey. I love how you can take certain words and make them whimsical with additions or subtractions of other words, or twist the exact same words into something more with extra emphasis on certain syllables. I love making situational puns that can't be repeated because they fit so perfectly that it only works once, but it really works. I miss English in that I wish I would stop forgetting my non-everyday English vocabulary. Those words like gossamer, bombastic and capricious that can turn something so ordinary into an extraordinary explanation...I forget them so often when speaking German so much and every time I hear a nice English word I get a warm feeling inside...a feeling of nice recognition. I guess it's weird to get a feeling from just any old random word but hey, I'm going a little crazy thinking in Denglish all the time.
So my class today was just awful. The whole experience was terrible. Four students (ungefähr) gave presentations that they've had a month to prepare. 10 minute presentations about a pretty straightforward topic. Well, they didn't really do the work correctly, in the professor's defense, but in my opinion did nothing to merit the sheer volume of feedback given by not only the other students in the class but also the professor herself. She straight-up told one student that she was going to fail in front of the whole class. I would be absolutely mortified. The whole situation was rude. I can't even imagine getting such rude and terrible feedback from my classmates and teacher...that being said, my presentation is in a few weeks and I hope they go easy on us...
So my class today was just awful. The whole experience was terrible. Four students (ungefähr) gave presentations that they've had a month to prepare. 10 minute presentations about a pretty straightforward topic. Well, they didn't really do the work correctly, in the professor's defense, but in my opinion did nothing to merit the sheer volume of feedback given by not only the other students in the class but also the professor herself. She straight-up told one student that she was going to fail in front of the whole class. I would be absolutely mortified. The whole situation was rude. I can't even imagine getting such rude and terrible feedback from my classmates and teacher...that being said, my presentation is in a few weeks and I hope they go easy on us...
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