Good Night

Good Night
Good Day today, I believe.

God Damn it, I wrote an entire entry here and either IE or LJ screwed it up, and when I pressed back, it was all gone *cries*

Today is Saturday, and I woke up quite early, knowing that I had a foreign language interview.  I had no preparation, nor even consideration for it, since it was my Spanish teacher who signed me up without my knowledge.  I thought that it might have been a good experience, and that I perhaps would have made a few acquaintances (It was extremely diverse, and I love diversity).  It was my Spanish Tecaher who took the responsibilty of escorting me there, and we arrived quite early (Around 7:35 a.m.).  We waited in the cafeteria until my time, and I tingled with the amount of diversity that was present (I absolutely love being acquainted with people of differing backgrounds).  At time,  we went towards my interview room, and at that time, a large group of boys were there for the same purpose, but in a higher level of spanish than I am...and they were to be interviewed in a room across from mine.  I broke the ice, asking if of where they were coming from and if there were anyone there who could speak spanish (This was before I discovered that they were there for Spanish interviw)..and, or course, i asked this in spanish.  "Answer her man, you're the one who speaks spanish" ..."Oh no..now I'm scared...haha"...They eventually got the gist of what I was trying to ask...as one said "Oh no I speak the El Francais!" (lol) The group looked like a mix of Mexican-Middle Eastern-Indian guys ...but they were all quite nice.  I know for sure that some were Mexican and Indian as the Mex guys expressed this, yeah, and while I was trying to read this Hindi script on the wall, some of the coolie guys were trying to decipher it, too.  I waited for my interview...and I was...just a tad bit nervous..seeing that poor girl already inside was struggling, and the judges were not very impressed.   At my time, I walked in,  and immediately, the inquiry began.  To make a long story short, the judges were deeply impressed...the questions even progressed into conversation regarding where our families and scestors were from and what I wished to become and which college I wanted to attend (lol), but everything was still quite basic to me.  I had no idea...and that even when I said, "My spanish is very poor", they exclaimed, "Noo,  noo!  It is VERY, very good!" (in spanish)  ...and even as I left they smiled, talking amongst themselves...It did not feel as much as an accomplishment, though...I must say why later on.  Anyway,  the awards ceremony would occur at around 11:30, leaving us almost 3 hours to piss off.  La Profe and I ended up going to the bookstore, in which I recieved the special edition of 'Scientific American - Mind',  and a... strange manga.   Also stopped by Petsmart where I purchased two lovely goldfish (which are Ironically pearlish-white) as a gift for my mother (which, by the way, she loved).  The awards ceremony was deathly lengthy O.O  I recieved a 'Superior' ranking with the highest ratings (The scoring is similar to NYSSMA, they look for your proficiency in different areas and judge you based on those such as Fluency, Hesitations, ect.)...but honestly, I am not impressed...there were participants for other languages, such as Latin, Japanese, German, Chinese and French.  I find someone earning a 'Superior' in a language such as Mandarin, which is extremely, pheonetically difficult (I should know), impressive.  Spanish is relatively simple compared to those...So I actually do not feel as accomplished.  I wil continue to study Mandarin when I have reached my desired fluency in spanish...as it has happend to me in which I confuse my languages (I started speaking hindi once over the phone to Laura - my friend from Mexico O.o) ...

Well, afterwards, I grabbed a bit to eat,  was dropped home, and nothing noteworthy occured after that, really...and I do not recall where I put the award thingy...I really wish my father would come back from Trinidad...I want to borrow his power tools. ^_^;