chilung

Well, that's over, fail or pass, it's over. No more insane teaching every two days, no more six hour preps for a (often less than)one hour class. No more insane uber-religious nuts, who

1) cry at the mention of body party, at the mention of bodily fluids, at the mention of sex (particularly non "normal" sex), well pretty much everything after a while (in all honesty she wasn't too bad, I just felt uncomfortable around her)

or 2) are so competitive they feel the need to sabotage everyone else in the course, feel the need to antagonise everyone else in the course because he believed that if he made everyone else look bad he would do better, who believed everything should be "fair" (basically he gets the best deal), including on the last day when the purpose was just to learn some games and have fun, telling the tutor that the game was unfair because the person next to him was closer to the w/board by 20cm thus had an advantage (no seriously, I'm not joking), then when our group won all three games , proceeded to gloat (though considering he spent the entire course either gloating, or enraged it's not surprising).

No more surly students who refused to get off computers when they have to (understandable due to lack of resources), no more facilities that were as good as you found in China but no better and about as clean, no more demoralising Holmes Institute.

It's over, it's been good, my grammar is definitely better, I'm kind of up for doing things rather than lying around the house now.

I clashed with one of the tutors, because I'm a stubborn arsehole, any comment made I'll probably want to know the reasoning behind it and if you can't give a rational reason why, you're probably going to have trouble getting through to me. At times, I also appear a lot more emotional than I generally am.

She copped it the worst from our group, she had all the tears, pretty much all the rudeness (me during TP planning, and the uber religious guy during feedback where he just disagreed with every constructive criticism she made (unless it was about someone else in which case he jumped on and tried to break the person). I think she was fair when she basically felt that I didn't deserve to pass.

The other woman on the other hand, from day one she and I seemed to get along better, I was going to quit after having a major personal argument on the Monday night of week 4, and after having so much trouble organising my lesson the next day, she persuaded to just give it a go, then she passed me on the lesson. Even up to the end she backed me, so though all cases go through Cambrdige mine is a split decision. One wants to pass me the other to fail. I don't think I will, but either way so be it, it's kind of touching to have someone have faith in you even when you don't have any in yourself.