Validations: 8/9
Exams: 3/3

It's odd how sometimes you can't just be happy for yourself :P I got the highest grade from my French exam, yet I feel like a dumb idiot who doesn't deserve it. I saw the written part, and it was covered in corrections, and I'm sure that my speaking was horrible, I kept trying to say things I couldn't because I don't know the necessary vocabulary or grammar and kept making stupid mistakes. I was sure I'd get a 3 or a 3+ and I got a 4+ O_o Combined with the 5 from writing and grammar it gave me a 5.  I really don't know what to think about it XD Maybe it's my unhealthy ambition, or something... or a weird perspective: I'm used to being able to express myself quite well in English, so when I have problems with saying the most basic things in French I am easily frustrated. But from a more objective standpoint the level of French in our group is supposed to be DELF 2, so they can't really expect us to spontaneously form long, grammatically correct speeches full of difficult vocabulary.

Changing the topic: I saw the last two episodes of Last Friends, the final without subs, unfortunately, and even though I don't exactly understand some things, I think it's one of the greatest dramas I've ever seen. Seriously. I'm not going to go into the psychology yet, I'll probably do that after I have seen the last episode with subtitles... But I really, really, REALLY love the concept of "tomodachi janai, koibito janai" xD It completely exceeded my expectations xD <3 <3 <3

Validations: 4/9
Exams: 0/3 (but one written, I'll know if I passed at the end of the week)

I had a monster of an English literature exam today :P Of course out of 40 or so questions the four I had to write about were ones of those I didn't particularly like - but oh, well, that's life. But it proved something to me - I still have a lot of work to do before I can say that I'm really good. Recently I had classes with a really nice teacher and they were a pleasure to attend and I was the only person in the class that had any interest in what we were doing, so it seemed that I might have some talent in this area... But in truth I lack a whole damn lot. I have problems with interpretation - I never see the important things and notice idiotic details instead, and that never helps when you are writing an analysis that will be graded :P

But in order to go into publishing I need to reform my mind and put much more work in what I'm doing. And thought. A lot of thinking, analysing and learning till I am brain-dead XD

But right now I have some free time. Last night I made some minimal progress on my novel, "Hedatari", but since I used a completely different style of narration I had to re-write everything from scratch - so in fact I took several steps back instead of forward. But I feel that this way I will be able to move the action in a smoother and quicker way than before. I always forget about economizing my texts - I tend to describe all the isignificant, boring details, infinitely stretch the conversations for no apparent reason and lose the important things in the meantime. Thanks to some advice of madwriter I tried a different approach and for now it's going quite well :)

Apart from a novel to write there are a lot of books waiting to be read, and I'm starting to seriously think about watching "9 ends 2 outs", all because of Jenny's awesome video... See for yourself, it's seduisante x