The ending of classes... but exams are two weeks away!

Well, this week has been a rather short week (I still have tomorrow though!) - in regards to classes that is!

The last day of classes is tomorrow (Wednesday April 30th) so most of my classes either met for the last time last week or this week. Monday, I got my exam for French History back - the one that I did not expect to do well on because the information I studied was not even on the test! Well... that was a horrendous disaster! Now, I have to do a rattrapage paper and turn it in two weeks from now in order to bring my grade up to one that will transfer back. But I can use the internet and we're supposed to, so I should do a great job on it!

Tuesday, we got our exams from Dramaturgie back ... although a friend of mine picked it up from me because I was trying to finish answering a bunch of questions for my Ecriture class. She told me that we both passed it though so that's a good thing!

In Ecriture, we handed in our question packets and the professor told us our grades on our scripts. She had given me an 8/10 and Charlie a 10/10 because of the language issue and that Charlie wrote a good bit of it. I first didn't think it was that fair but then I did the math of how it would transfer back. Our questions were worth 10 points as well to make the 20 point total. Well, in order for my grade to transfer back and get an A, I have to get at least 13/20 points. Meaning that since I already had 8, even if I do horrible on the questions - a grade of 5/10 would still give me an A back home. Which is why I didn't bother fighting for the extra point or two!

Then, in Performance Artistique, she gave us our grades back on all of our projects as well. I got a 4/6 on the image presentation. I should've probably argued with her about that grade because part of her reasoning is the fact that I used clips from online on YouTube. Well, apparently we weren't supposed to do that, though I did not know. I did have a decent arguement becuase I had told Charlie my idea (including using clips off the internet) before I even put it together and someone who was a friend would have told me that I can't use clips from the internet. That just goes to show what kind of "friend" Charlie was...

For my movie scene analysis, she gave me a 3/6 which I didn't quite think was fair because it seemed like she was not judging me in regards to the language barrier. If I gave my presentation in English I would have done better than some of the French students because not only do I have the movie clip memorized, but I could use terms and talk about it much better - but she doesn't really speak English at all. So as I was reading off my typed up presentation (because there would be no way I could just rattle things off in French about the scene and actually be fluent enough) she had issues understanding some things and after a bit basically told me I was analyzing it in too much detail and she started asking me questions. That completely had thrown me off because I couldn't just read off my paper anymore - I had to think of what I wanted to say and then translate it into French... didn't go over so well.

So by now I'm at 7/12 which isn't incredibly good but in lieu of the grade transferring back, it's not that bad. She didn't have a grade for my court métrage because there were technicality issues when we tried to watch it last week. So I had the weekend to fix the film (since I realized there were errors in the first one!) and we watched it today in class. She told me she'll give the grade to the secretary - so I'll have to check that out next week or so. But figuring out the math again, the highest score I could get is a 6/6. (The total for this class is going to be out of 18 points instead of 20) So, in order for me to get an A, I just needed a 5/6 on the video. I'm figuring on getting a 3 which was the lowest grade she gave out (better to think worse than be surprised later!) - but even if I get a 3/6 on the movie, that puts me at 10/18 which would equate back to a B. So I was still rather happy knowing that in both classes I'm most likely going to get A's or the worst case, two B's!

I hopefully will get my Greek history DS back tomorrow and know how much I will have to study for the final exam!

I did get my French to English Translation DS grade back and I got a 10.5/20 which is not bad at all (that would transfer back as a B!) so I just need to get the same grade on the final and that class will be fine.

On my DS for English to French Translation, I got a 13/20 which is an A! So as long as I do around the same for the final, that's another great grade to transfer back!

In the French class for Dummies (I tested into the lowest level with a bunch of my friends and that was our nickname for it!) I ended up getting a 12/20 which will transfer back as B so that is another great grade!

Some classes I don't know my grades for yet such as the Marguerite Duras Class, Travail du Spectateur (although I am doing fine in there according to the professor!), my two monday classes with Analyze and Pratique du Jeu but the professor said I should be fine in those classes as well!

Now, all I have to do is start getting things ready to go home, do the one rattrapage, and study for exams in two weeks! I'm going to start taking things down here and packing up... the goal is to find a scale or borrow one, and pack everything that I will be taking back with me. Naturally there are things I will be leaving here mainly because I can't afford to take them back or I don't have the room (and in some cases I just have no need to either!) so I will leave those out. I will also leave out the stuff that I know I will be mailing home like all my souvenirs and things like that. The overall goal is to get my suitcases packed to see what stuff I actually have to send home. Then, I will get those packages (hopefully no more than 2 or three!) packed and sent out by this weekend so I know that they arrive at home.

As for the other things I plan on doing... not so sure about that. Most of my friends are traveling somewhere this next week because we don't have any classes but I can't afford to travel anywhere. I think I might try to get to Brussels since I have souvenirs from there and Belguim but the only thing I saw was the airport! It's only a half hour by train and wouldn't be too much money - and I might try to see some things around this area of France too, including hopefully getting up to Calais and the beaches up there. It would be nice to see the cliffs of Dover from France too! But I will just have to see what happens!

Well, I'm gonna get going here and get some sleep so I'm not tired in class tomorrow! I'm still working on getting my pictures from Paris sorted through. I took more than anywhere else, so it's taking a lot longer! But I will get them up as soon as possible! Laterz!