Dies und das...
Because I'm still a little confused and nervous (can't tell you why now, sorry), I'll just write a sketch of the last few days...
Monday: • History and Modern Chinese were okay • there were two Asian looking people in the elevator which spoke a weird language that sounded a little like Russian with lots of sibilants and only very few vowels; my guess is that it was Mongolian • met up with fay_morgenstern to buy tickets for a classical concert next weeks • filled out the Saxon vocabulary questionaire with her known words • went home afterwards • evening: Language Death • my lecturer suggested a different topic for my semester paper: "Endangered Subsystems: Writing" = great idea • 3 speeches, an Arabian student read out an Arabic citation which ended in the words "wa hadde hadde", which sounds funny • Fachschaftsrat: got a Czech newspaper from Tyko & Co. (thanks!), had a funny and interesting talk with Kathi and Stefan, we read through my LJ, talked about Chinese with Stefan, etc. • got home late
Tuesday: • Modern Chinese as usual • Country Studies was okay, as Dr. Meyer asked questions and did a repetition • saw Stefan's friend, the nun from a Vietnamese cloister • Berlind told me that she might have Mongolian ancestors • got 100€ (!) from my granny • phones with Laura when I was home... glad she called me
Wednesday: (aka today) • wrote a dictation in Modern Chinese; had severe comprehension problems... >.< • Stephi made a rather pissed impression, but we got silly as usual later on • got the alphabet chart for the Oiratic alphabet (looks like old Mongolian, running from top to bottom) from our Chinese tutor Alexandra; it's much better than the Uyghur one • went to the mensa with Anne, Svea, Johanna and Ulrike • took the bus home then
Random things: 1. The Turkish word for plum is erik. 2. I installed the Chinese instant messenger QQ, but it doesn't work properly: Chinese characters don't get displayed and people cannot read my characters either; I'll probably need Chinese Windows for that :( 3. The explanation to my weirdness these days will follow later... in the evening, if I find the time.
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my lecturer suggested a different topic for my semester paper: "Endangered Subsystems: Writing" = great idea
