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Closer and closer...
Soon this dreaded semester will be finished! I'm so excited. Next week I have: my final oral presentation and last paper due in my political science class. After which I can focus on finals! Out of the seven classes I'm taking I have finals in four of them, which is rather bizarre. Even more bizarre is that these classes require rather passive test-studying. I never end up having to seriously study for a test to make an A. Bizarre... Soeaking of A's, I finally got an A on a oral presentation in my converstation class, YESSSS! I have made spoken-french-progress. Yes indeedy. I don't know how all of a sudden I'm indifferent about speaking in front of people now--this is great though.
However, I'm rather confused. Today I gave my exposé in my cinema class on the film Le goût des autres . In the article that we had to read, the critic mentions Freud's psychosexual theory because of the use of the word "goût" in the title. Since, in my opinion, the idea of "goût" (which means taste) in the context of the film really has a psychosocial sense I chose to use Erik Erikson's theory on the subject for my topic for my exposé. Granted I didn't bother going into great detail about his theory because, well, I knew no one would really care. Anyway, after explaining that the theory, in a nutshell, has to do with the idea that throughout our developement our interactions with others helps to shape/find our own sense of identity, I asked a rather simple question: "Do you think that the movie supports or refutes Erikson's theory?" Any the response, which I thought would be pretty good because it's a thought-provoking question? Cringing faces of confusion. Either I somehow developed horribly bad French grammar/pronunciation/something to make me incomprehensible, or this just went over everyone's head. Even my professor, when revising the question for everyone(which he usually does for each exposé) didn't really get what I was saying(granted he hardly ever hears what I say because, as he says : "je ne t'ai pas entendu, Charisse, encore mais plus fort" (or something like that). In the end, people settled on the idea that I was asking whether or not the identity of the characters was changed by their experiences. Not exactly what I was getting at but...who cares...it got them talking so mission accomplished!
In more intriguing news, I finally got an email about the modeling thing. Apparently there's something on Thursday from 8 to 5 I'm suppose to be participating in--WHAT!? Not only do I have my French class where I will be working with my group for my final presentation that day, but it's the last day of lecture for my art history class AND I have work in the art gallery. I was told that I'd be modeling for the May 3rd show, so I replied to the email to see if I'm actually needed Thursday by the girl who recruited me(I have no idea what her name was)...I hope not because I really don't want to miss my classes although I really want to participate. Wow, that sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
However, I'm rather confused. Today I gave my exposé in my cinema class on the film Le goût des autres . In the article that we had to read, the critic mentions Freud's psychosexual theory because of the use of the word "goût" in the title. Since, in my opinion, the idea of "goût" (which means taste) in the context of the film really has a psychosocial sense I chose to use Erik Erikson's theory on the subject for my topic for my exposé. Granted I didn't bother going into great detail about his theory because, well, I knew no one would really care. Anyway, after explaining that the theory, in a nutshell, has to do with the idea that throughout our developement our interactions with others helps to shape/find our own sense of identity, I asked a rather simple question: "Do you think that the movie supports or refutes Erikson's theory?" Any the response, which I thought would be pretty good because it's a thought-provoking question? Cringing faces of confusion. Either I somehow developed horribly bad French grammar/pronunciation/something to make me incomprehensible, or this just went over everyone's head. Even my professor, when revising the question for everyone(which he usually does for each exposé) didn't really get what I was saying(granted he hardly ever hears what I say because, as he says : "je ne t'ai pas entendu, Charisse, encore mais plus fort" (or something like that). In the end, people settled on the idea that I was asking whether or not the identity of the characters was changed by their experiences. Not exactly what I was getting at but...who cares...it got them talking so mission accomplished!
In more intriguing news, I finally got an email about the modeling thing. Apparently there's something on Thursday from 8 to 5 I'm suppose to be participating in--WHAT!? Not only do I have my French class where I will be working with my group for my final presentation that day, but it's the last day of lecture for my art history class AND I have work in the art gallery. I was told that I'd be modeling for the May 3rd show, so I replied to the email to see if I'm actually needed Thursday by the girl who recruited me(I have no idea what her name was)...I hope not because I really don't want to miss my classes although I really want to participate. Wow, that sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
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