过了两天的课以后我发现这个这个经历会一定会很辛苦。 我们每天有四节课。 上课一天前我们得做作业，看好我们的新科文，和记得60到100汉字！ 我上大办课的时候有一个听写的考试然后复习语法。 下个课就是小半课。 这门课只有四个学生！ 这门课让我非常紧张因为老师很快地问我们语法的例子。 然后我上对话课和单班课。 这两门课是我最喜欢的。 我们跟一个老师用那天的语法和生子聊天儿。 这四门课真让我累。 下午呢？ 吃午饭以后我就在开始预习我下篇课文。 我觉得我会每天12电才睡觉！除了上课以外我们还得支持我们的语言誓约。 我的脑子月来粤风狂！
But I can write in english. so at least i have one outlet. right now, my body screams for a germanic language or even a romance one. at times i find myself about to let a french word fly even though it's been over two years since i last spoke. (a french accent doesn't count as french, for those of you who have heard me speak french in the last two years). I think this first week will be the hardest on my mind and body... hopefully. I have to get rid of systems i've used since i was young and replace them with entirely different structures, and it seems to take a while for the electric currents in my brain to carve out new paths on which to flow. i just hope i don't start speaking english in my sleep and pollute chinese atmosphere and undermine the sanctity of the language pledge.
Furthermore, the teaching style here is 厉害 (intense). Unlike the liberal arts method of my past, this style forces the student to be engaged. My whole life it's always been the students choice whether he speaks or doesn't speak even in language classes. For me it was more like I had a right not speak rather to speak. Here, the mind can not meander in any kind of whimsical (albeit interesting) pondering. Rather, it must be constantly must follow the teacher's train of thought, i.e. the lesson. For example, whenever (and I mean whenever) the teacher says something new like a grammar structure, an example, or vocab we, the students must all repeat exactly what she said in unison, and she scours the four-person class for mistakes to point out to everyone. Sometimes we are even expected to know exactly what the teacher is going to say and say it along with her with only a single nod for a signal. This could be anything from a word to an entire sentence from the the text we read for that days class. Needless to say, this is something I've never experience before and the classroom habits I've developed in the United States are not exactly complementary nor even adaptable to this environment. Some might call it laziness, but nevertheless it has got me through of my American schooling successfully. So it's frustrating when I find myself entertaining a cool thought in class and I get called on to answer a question or give an example with only ONE correct answer. But I think there's a lot to be gained from this: discipline, concentration, and even a different kind of social skill that is somewhat close to acting. We shall see.
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