Goomonin'?

Now we talk Corse

It occurs to me that I haven't really blogged Corsica at all. I'm learning French at the university in Corte, it's just a university diploma, nothing fancy. I gotta admit I feel like I've really improved fast in the last couple weeks, even though it's been a little less than a month since we started. 

It's just so similar to Spanish in many ways, French I mean, that all the explanations given by the teachers and the books to detail the exact usage of verb tenses are completely useless. I understand its probably not as simple for, say the Chinese students, but in my case, all I have to do is try to think of the way its said in Spanish and voila, there's my explanation.

Of course, my luck, we've got one of the worst grammar teachers I've ever had the misfortune of meeting... are we ready? I'm about to complain big time here. 

Woman gives us a copy of some bad FLE book and reads it out loud. Is it clear? No? Alright I'm going to explain... and she reads it out loud again only louder! 

Say I have a question to ask her, only I can't really phrase it well because beluudhhhduuh I'm a frucking beginner at this, and why not, she interrupts me and begins explaining before I even get to the point of my question, the result: she doesn't really answer any questions, she just goes 'Go on google, do you guys know what google is? Alright well you type w-w-w-.-g-o-o-g-l-e-.-c-o-m and there you search for FLE EXERCICES, it's all really simple!

Yeah right, I paid to have you teach me, not to have you tell me to go home and learn French after school. 

Some of my classmates say this is the French way, she's an old fashioned teacher and blah blah, well to me she just sucks at this, and she says she's been teaching for years, I have a feeling she doesn't really take criticism because if this is the way she's always been then I'm sure there's been loads of students who've told her to change her methods a little bit, unsuccessfully I'm guessing. 

Other than that, I've pretty much been avoiding reality, I feel like I'm watching a movie about learning French in Corsica, really  just watching. Like I see my sister talking to people and I'm eating popcorn. 

Funny things? Corsicans start singing in choir when they're drunk, and they cover their one ear to be in tune and all, it's quite cute actually. I also like the fact that Corte is this little village on a hill and the university is all the way down, so we're walking up and down at least twice a day, I think I'm getting better at this walking uphill thing.

I'm queen of Patheticville. 

Girls are so pretty here pff, with their perfect hair and their perfect skin and their perfectness its all so perfectly discouraging. And their perfect French wahhh that's the worst, I feel like I should just open a bakery and stay in the back room covered in flour, at least ants will be my friends. Aw that sounds sad, I didn't mean it for it to sound like that haha. 

Why do they all have to look like Alizee? Why can't there be a few Colombas? Don't get me wrong, I've met a couple of seriously tough scary looking lesbians but that's really not what I meant! Whatever, I've started to ramble now. Pff.. started?? 

I ride! 

Corsican word of the day: Lingua (Language)

Feeling: Puny

A random thought!

I've been thinking a little about something that has bothered me for quite some time now. 

I think all the unfortunate things that happened to Harry Potter during his time at Hogwarts, for example almost dying for protecting the philosopher's stone, the whole basilisk fiasco with the diary, the death of Sirius, the return of Voldemort etc, all of those things that happened when Dumbledore was still alive could have all been fixed if someone both smart and powerful (Dumbledore himself duh) had used a time turner at the right moment. 

Seriously, he could have just gone back a few hours and settled the mess down. Think about that. 

Let's take one simple example: when Harry comes back from the labyrinth carrying dead Cedric, Dumbledore should have been all 'What happened? When, where and how?' Very simple, the trophy was a portkey, and bam, he time turns to the beginning of the third task and takes the portkey himself, he would have found Pettigrew with the bundle of evil in his arms and mucus maxima bawaam, Pettigrew is tied up and the bundle is put into some sort of jail cradle. End of story. 

Of course that really would have been the end of the whole thing so kinda glad it didn't happen like that. 

I'm bored.

Tonight Corte seems to hate me though

Corti mon amour

I am in love with Corte.
It's a village in the clouds.