dacetone's Journal: Finals, bleh.

Once again, it's finals time at school. For Japan 211, the final is tomorrow, so I'm desperately studying now, as I have to work tonight until ~12pm (Working in a mall during December sucks). (Thank you, U of V, for the very helpful kanji study guides) I should say, the written is tomorrow, the oral (which I'm incredibly frightened of) is on the 8th. Any Japanese speakers want to do an iChat audio chat and practice with me? ;) (Off-topic, why do I have such a fear of speaking Japanese to another person? I'm in my 2nd year of studies, and can write capably, yet have managed only to say "ni juu man en" to a person outside of my classmates.)

Edu 115 (Anti-Bias Strategies for the Classroom) has a 4 page paper due, um, this morning (love the sound of deadlines as they whoosh over my head), which I haven't quite started. The paper's topic is: Write a personal statement regarding the impact that anti-bias, culturally relevant and multicultural practices have on the developing child. Which would be great, except the book we're required to reference is written for K-5 educators, and I'm aiming toward teaching high school, so the paper will be of little use to my situation.

And First Aid/CPR would normally have a final tomorrow, except the instructor has been ill for 2 weeks now...what do you do if the teacher misses the final? Eesh.

Upcoming next quarter: Japanese 212, IASTU 102 (required multicultural class), CMU 282 (TV Studio Production) and Drama 282 (Advanced Video Editing, but yuk, they use Avid on PCs, I'm hoping what I learn will help with using FCE)