Oct. 18th, 2006

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I did manage to sleep some last night. I'm feeling pretty prepared for Swahili, I think. I haven't done a good chunk of my reading for today's Animal Rights class though.

Our professor's wife just had a baby last night too, and even though he's picking them up from the hospital this morning he's STILL planning to be at class -- just an hour late.

I can't believe it! Nearly free, huh? I now have about 10 pages of review notes I've made for Swahili to look over while I have my class break between 2 and 6 pm. I might still take a minute before I walk to school and clean my room and drop off my laundry.

This sense of chaos is impacting my study feng-shui or something.
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I don't want to curse myself here, but I'm pretty sure I kicked that Swahili exam's ass. It really didn't involve the areas I was worried about, either. There weren't a lot of demonstratives, and translating and negating are EASY.

We might know a lot of components of Swahili, but, really, we don't know that much vocabulary. I'm not sure why I was so worried, but I do feel like I knew a lot even before I started studying. I guess going to class and doing homework will do that for you!

Also, I'm sort of disturbed, but I think I saw this student, we'll call him Student X, *cheating*. He grew up in Kenya, and is a smartass in class and always shows off his superior vocabulary, and really, he should be in Swahili 2 or 3. Anyway, I noticed that he had a sheet of torn-out notebook paper UNDER all the rest of his papers. What was it? It was about a PAGE of writing, more than we'd had time to do exactly pre-exam when she said we could write on the back of our blue books. It looked like our noun class demonstratives written out in chart form.

So, question is, WAS he cheating? What's really annoying is that, if he gets an A, everyone will just be like "Well of course X got an A. He's from Kenya." Erg. I guess I don't really care, so long as I do okay. Anything B+ or above will make me happy.

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