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For the last ten minutes, I've been treated to a middle-aged woman berating her elderly father regarding something to do with a car, the alcohol store and a religious man. I'm not kidding.

I called public security because she was screaming her head off for like, 10 minutes. This was at like, 2:45. There are TWO public security vans still out there. Crazy stuff.

Good news: Got my Italian grade back and, although it's a B-, I'm satisfied. It means I did about as well on the exam as I'd thought, and it means that with my A from English, it averages out to having gotten a B+ in both classes.

More good news: The taxi company has my purse. I can't go get it yet because they're not sure it's actually IN the office exactly, but they have it!

Bad news: I have to go to the library to take out a book for my paper due Friday.

Weird news: I have to mail JB her jeans. It's a very long story, and I totally volunteered and was, in no way, pressured to do so. So it's just a weird happening.

I can't believe public security is still standing around out there. ... wait, no, the woman is yelling again. I believe it.

Must go pick up/mail the jeans and head to school.

What a weird day.

Ciao, tutti. Il mio esame d'italiano è alle 7 stasera. Che faccio? Studio. Ma voglio sapere perché ho deciso di prendere italiano. Non sono molto bene con le lingue (solamente inglese. Il mio francese non è troppo male, ma non è molto buono non piu!), e mi domando perché ho preso italiano ancora.

La ragione è molto simplice: l'italiano mi piace. Le mie vote non saranno fantastiche, ma ho voluto apprendere la lingua italiana.

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Hi, all. My Italian exam is at 7 this evening. What am I doing? Studying. But I want to know why I decided to take Italian. I'm not very good with languages (only English. My French isn't too bad, but it's not great, either!), and so I ask myself why did I take Italian again?

The reason is very simple: I like Italian. My grades won't be fantastic, but I wanted to learn the Italian language.

That's why I'm finishing my third semester of Italian, that's why I'm planning on a fourth and possibly a fifth and a sixth.

It's that classic battle. Wanting to learn versus wanting a good GPA. I have SO many credits to do that I could have taken any number of introductory classes to virtually any topic to help eat them up. But I decided to challenge myself and learn a third language. A third language which has resulted in the two lowest marks I've had in my university career -- a B- and a C. A C. I did better in STATISTICS than I did in either of my introductory Italian courses! I got a B+ in Stats I and a B in Stats II. The world has gone mad if I did better in a MATH course than a language course!

Anyways, I'll probably get a B- or a B (if I'm lucky) in this Italian course and the next one should be similar. Nelly, the awesome Mature Student Advisor, has informed me that "though the Sociology program LIKES that you're being diverse in taking Italian, they don't really care that you got a C in Italian if you got a B in Stats."

But my GPA. Ouch. Technically, I need to get an A- in my courses to drag it up from 3.35, since a B+ or lower will bring it down. It's currently 3.35. I expect to see it drop.

And I'm going to stop talking about grades, now, and get back to studying for my exam which is in FOUR HOURS.

Also, new icon, because I like the badly photoshopped Santa hats on my friendslist.