Hmm. The ongoing saga of me with my disasterous university life continues... WHAT I NEED: Any sinister kids out in Norway who fancy helping out? All I'm asking, is that you could perhaps write to me, in Norwegian, and I shall do the same back. I need to practice my writing in Norwegian, as it is holding me back in the worst ways possible. Its the writing that I am doing really badly at. All I need, is someone who will take some time, just a little time whenever possible, to write to me in Norwegian. I will write back, if I make mistakes, point them out to me, and let me know what I should be saying instead. Aparently, I got the second highest score for spoken Norwegian (yay!) which is quite amazing, as at least a third of the class are Norwegian native speakers, and I'm not one of them. My advisor reckons I will get my honours Norwegian, but I will have to work hard. She said it isn't impossible for me to get a decent grade honours as well. I've also spoken to my teacher, who is willing to give me extra homework to practice with, and give me extra classes. I've been advised to get as much Norwegian as possible into my life for the next five months, and thats what I intend to do. Speak it, write it, breathe it, maybe not quite live it, but certainly as close as. I don't necessarily want to have a career with Norwegian, but I want to be able to leave uni, with my head held high rather than tucked between my legs. I've already asked for extra work for the weekend, on top of what I have to do for next week, on top of all my other classes in literature and things. The way I see it, five or six months spent holed up studying and learning isn't that bad. Its a fraction of my lifetime, and I want to get it right. I just want that honours degree I came here promising myself, three and a half years ago, that I would get. So, here goes. Hmm. I'm nervous as anything about all this, and hoping desperately that it will all work out for the better and that I will get a grip on it, and it won't all be for nothing. All I want to do, is see my determination, get me whatever I want it to get me. Its helped me out in the past, and it might help me again. I hope it does. Thanks to everyone who sent me encouraging e mails from my last post, which was along the lines of "Panic! Panic! help! What am I going to do? I'm doomed!". There were a lot of intelligent words of wisdom there. Cheers. Anyway, hopefully there will be someone out there who is in Norway and thinks they could help me. Karma will thank you for it. Love, (a panicky, but determined) idleberry ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+