Every instructor (and remember we have three) keeps telling us (a)the course is intense and (b)don't overdo it. Yesterday, when Jeff was giving the homework assignments for the weekend, he noted that one specific task should take a maximum of 3-4 hours and then explained that one student had invested something like 17 hours in completing it. Jeff's reaction (since he's a Brit often reminding us that he relishes sarcasm, I think I can by with this) was a textbook illustration of compassion.
"That's just crazy!"
Since I am planning two of my best friends' birthday party (they happen to both be November girls) and trying to celebrate with more friends that Texas has a Renaissance festival each year, I liked it when he concluded his assignments with the reminder to do something other than homework this weekend. That part of the assignment I can handle.
What's the other part? Well . . . we get to invest those maximum 3-4 hours in a formal, evaluated written assignment that is supposed to give them an indication we are getting language related tasks. We also get to do an unevaluated written assignment, write our personal reflections on Part 1, plan another 40 minute lesson for Monday and re-read the manual and organize our notes.
If I give up sleeping and bathing for the next couple of days, I should be able to both have a life AND keep up.
Red eyed and smelly probably describes most women of the Renaissance so I am halfway there on my costume for Sunday.
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Yeah, sleeping and bathing are SOOO overrated!
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