end o' session 1

whats new? not too much. i'm studying (cramming?) pretty hard for my two finals tomorrow. i got a test in grammar and one in phonetics. i don't have one in language and society because we did a group paper, a group test and a group presentation all within the past week and a half. at least i'm done with that, all we have tomorrow for that class is a pizza party. woohoo!

so phonetics, im not too worried. each week we have had 1 production quiz and a transcription test. that first one is me pronouncing about 5 or so words correctly for a teacher by looking at the IPA symbols. what is the IPA you ask? why its the International Phonetic Alphabet, see here! the transcription test is a teacher pronouncing for us and us writing it correctly in the symbols. oh, we also had a couple mimicry tests. thats where we spend forever listening to some phrases from a language (last time it was cantonese) and then we go in and repeat them for a prof.

i guess the only thing bothering me about grammar is that we've not had any grades other than hw each night. no other test grades but i'll do fine. no worries.

what im really excited about is our four day weekend coming up. oh and i bought plane tickets to indiana for t-day. i cant wait!