Short: Polish Class (test day)

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I was up until 2 am last night studying. I only had enough time to cover the nouns and some adjectives but I didn't get around to doing any of the verbs. Which are pretty important, if you think about it b/c without them, you can't really construct any sentences. :-/

Oh why didn't I start earlier!!

I woke up early, if you count 7.30 as early, and did some more flashcards, had breakfast, and then went to class.

The test was handed out and Marek left us alone in the room to do it. I guess they go by the honor system as well, assuming that we weren't going to cheat. Not that it mattered much; the lowest "grade" we could get was "good".

I don't know how well (good, hahaha) I did. The last part of the written was I had to write at least 15 sentences about my family. 15 doesn't sound like a lot, but when you don't remember any verbs... 15 is a lot.

I ended up with really short sentences that all began with

mam na imię ...
moja siostra ma xx lat.
moja matka ma xx lat.
moja ojciec ma xx lat.
moja psa ma xx lat.

It was ugly.


Then there came the oral part. Which I had totally forgotten about!
I thought it was going to be that we're prompted with questions and then we have to answer in Polish, but it was more stress inducing than that.
We had to sit in a chair in the middle of the room and do a 5 minute monologue.

ARRRRGH. I can barely pull that off in English!

Marek played rock-paper-sissors with each one of us in turn (going around the room). If we lost, we had to go sit in the chair and do our presentation. If we won, he would play with the next person. Just the r-p-s was stressing me out, let alone the going to the chair part.

I have to say, that was the LONGEST 5 minutes since I have arrived in Krakow.
A lot of dead air, a lot of um, a lot of jestem... and not a lot of anything else.

I was so glad to be out of that chair!

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Photos

Me
In the hotseat.

Marek
Looking... Stern.

Comments

[Wendy]

okay, forgive the obvious question here
why are you taking Polish lessons again? and will you even remember the stuff later?

[judylay]

Funny you ask...
That's one of the questions on the test -- "why are you here taking polish language lessons". Well, I'm unemployed, free to do as I please (until my money runs out) and I want to travel in Poland afterwards. So might as well learn how to speak it while I'm here... But of course I don't know how to say all that in Polish. :-p

[Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

Lekcja nr 2
mój ojciec ma XX lat mój pies ma XX lat Keep on, girl! :-)

[judylay]

Moj!
Thanks for the lesson. :-p I have 2 more weeks, maybe for the next test I will do better.

[Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

Best wishes
I'm sure, you will. If you need help with your homework, just write: [e-mail] Take a closer look at Poland, it's not so bad as it seems ;-) Anyway, I wish you all the best!

[sally]

so i take it you lost in the rock paper scissors?
what got you? did you go for the paper?

[judylay]

EVERYONE had to lose sometime
when it was down to 2 (me and another girl), Marek had us r-p-s each other. That was when I lost. ************ And Mr. Brzczyszczykiewicz -- that is one long last name! I have not yet mastered the art of properly dissecting long words. I don't think Poland is bad at all, I like it here. I wish I could stay longer (despite my seemingly constant complaining).