sweet, sweet success

I have a story for you all that would make Lilli, our program director, grin as wide as the Grinch does when he finally breaks down at the end of the movie and gives in to Christmas (PS-it is only NECESSARY that I watch that upon my return stateside).

Today I spent the afternoon with my second mono-à-mono session with my lovely traduction professor, Francesca. It's a funy thing. I'm not sure if it's just her, France, or AUCP that mandates that litereally every minute of class time missed, for example if a professor is running 10-15 minutes late, be made up at a separate time, by every single student. So, since I am the only 'étudiant' who goes on to Société Française after Traduction in the morning, I have had the pleasure of having 2 private tutoring sessions, if you will, with my translation professor.

So, we were sitting out in the garden, and seeing how earlier this morning was our last class, there wasn't a whole lot on the agenda to neither go over or prepare for, so, we just resorted to reading over my final project which I turned in this morning, cool. We had to translate a work we chose, so naturally I chose Confessions of a Shopaholic, 10 pages mind you, so we just started reading.

This is where it becomes Lilli's dream. Francesca and I are reading through it, unfortunately finding silly little errors, despite the fact that I'd probably read over it 10 times, and we have this magical moment where she says "Wow, you've really done well, you really did a good job translating and have improved so much since the start!" HALLELUJAH! So, although I might still get an eyesore of a grade, seeing how the French consider the equivalent of our 'C' to be a good grade, we'll see, but the point is, progress!! It's good to know that someone of authority also sees the effort and improvements I've made–not to come across as arrogant, but if I didn't have progress, there'd be a problem.

So now I'm off to finish practicing for tomorrow's presentation in another class with a motivating & warm professor. It's true what they say about small classes–those two are my smallest classes and the two in which I feel I've gained the most from–be it different learning skills or literary anaysis & presentation, it counts for something.

bisous,
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