So, here I am in Manchester. Been doing this intensive course for two weeks now, and it has been just that. I've steamed through a lot of homework. And managed to keep pretty well on top of it. Until today that is.
My landlord for the house I'm renting phoned me this morning and asked if I'd mind swapping to one of his other properties because he has a family of 6 that need a place. I'm the only person in this 4-bedroom house paying for the price of a room, so it makes sense for me to move to another place so that this place can be used to accomodate a family. I don't mind so much. But what it meant was that I had to spend much of the day doing housework instead of homework.
And then he came round to tell me that he'd rather if we moved my stuff tomorrow morning at 10 instead of tonight, and that he has a cleaner coming in tomorrow. So all that time I spent doing housework could have been spent doing homework.
To give an idea of the amount of homework I've been getting and how I cannot afford to waste even one day, this is how behind I have become due to one day of not getting any homework done...
It's 2:30 am and by 1pm I still have to: write a letter to a Japanese teacher, do the readings and answer the questions for chapters 20 and 23 of Genki, do another reading from a booklet of reading material she gave us, do the kanji practice for chapters 19 and 20 of Genki workbooks, write a self introduction, do an exercise called 'memo' that ive totally forgotten what she wanted us to do, do a double-sided A4 sheet of questions about causative-passives (or was it Keigo, I've forgotten) and come up with a plan for a presentation.
Oh and, I still have to write yesterday's and today's diary entries. And this isn't even taking into account the class reviews and checking my homework corrections that I've been getting into the habit of doing. And to make matters worse, I'm FUCKING SLEEPY, and im supposed to be moving into a new house at 10 am.
I bet most people couldn't even be bothered to read that list, let alone actually do all the things on it.
What sucks most is that I know for a fact im not going to get it all done... I also know for a fact im going to have to get some sleep tomorrow... which means I won't have time to catch up on the things I didnt get done tonight... and I'll get at least another 5 or 6 tasks tomorrow which will be due for Friday.
and to rub salt into the wounds, I'm pobably not gonna have internet to help me for the next few days.
And while I'm at it, I've got an earache too.
My landlord for the house I'm renting phoned me this morning and asked if I'd mind swapping to one of his other properties because he has a family of 6 that need a place. I'm the only person in this 4-bedroom house paying for the price of a room, so it makes sense for me to move to another place so that this place can be used to accomodate a family. I don't mind so much. But what it meant was that I had to spend much of the day doing housework instead of homework.
And then he came round to tell me that he'd rather if we moved my stuff tomorrow morning at 10 instead of tonight, and that he has a cleaner coming in tomorrow. So all that time I spent doing housework could have been spent doing homework.
To give an idea of the amount of homework I've been getting and how I cannot afford to waste even one day, this is how behind I have become due to one day of not getting any homework done...
It's 2:30 am and by 1pm I still have to: write a letter to a Japanese teacher, do the readings and answer the questions for chapters 20 and 23 of Genki, do another reading from a booklet of reading material she gave us, do the kanji practice for chapters 19 and 20 of Genki workbooks, write a self introduction, do an exercise called 'memo' that ive totally forgotten what she wanted us to do, do a double-sided A4 sheet of questions about causative-passives (or was it Keigo, I've forgotten) and come up with a plan for a presentation.
Oh and, I still have to write yesterday's and today's diary entries. And this isn't even taking into account the class reviews and checking my homework corrections that I've been getting into the habit of doing. And to make matters worse, I'm FUCKING SLEEPY, and im supposed to be moving into a new house at 10 am.
I bet most people couldn't even be bothered to read that list, let alone actually do all the things on it.
What sucks most is that I know for a fact im not going to get it all done... I also know for a fact im going to have to get some sleep tomorrow... which means I won't have time to catch up on the things I didnt get done tonight... and I'll get at least another 5 or 6 tasks tomorrow which will be due for Friday.
and to rub salt into the wounds, I'm pobably not gonna have internet to help me for the next few days.
And while I'm at it, I've got an earache too.
