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PUBLIC_FLAG_#{@journal.pf_int} RSS feed of nori's latest journal entries Dec 18th 2009 14:16
It has been a long time since my last post. I’ve been very busy last months, basically with studies. University is so different from school! There’s so much to read that sometimes I didn’t even go out home for more than a week. Being seven days indoors is exhausting and depressing.
I love my career, but some subjects displease me… even so, I must approve them and that’s my problem: it’s really bothersome to study and learn something you don’t like, don’t you think so? At least for me is terrible!
But well, finally holidays come! I approved three subjects: Communication I, Expression and Anthropology. They didn’t give me my grade at Economics yet; last Friday I took the final exam, so tomorrow I will receive the result. I’m a little worry; however I supposed I did it well… I hope so!!!! I really don’t want to take an Economics exam never again!

Now that I’m free, I wanna do more posts here. I’m thinking to write or translate stories. Last time I translated a text which I love and it wasn’t difficult. Then I tried the same with a story I wrote by myself, and it wasn’t the same… it turned very complicated to convert some Spanish expressions to English, to found the words in a different language. Maybe it’s because I still don’t know the common English expressions… for example, I could understand the meaning of “feeling blue” just days ago, until then I was wondering what was that, cause taking it literally was really strange.
On the other side, Lang8 is helping me a lot, I mean people here are helping me to improve my English, and I’m grateful to them… to you!!!!

Unfortunately I’m having serious problems with my PC, I’m getting tired of this… I’m thinking of buy one new and throw it away!! Far away!! Yeah! It’s making me furious!!! I can’t connect to internet, neither listen music…just write, well at least write! haha then it’s probably I won’t see the corrections until New Year. So, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! :D


Dec 22nd 2009 11:21 gilablue

  • I’ve been very busy last months, basically with studies.
  • I’ve been very busy for these last few months. This has mostly been because of my basically with studies.

 

  • There’s so much to read that sometimes I didn’t even go out home for more than a week.
  • There’s so much to read that sometimes I didn’t even go out home for more than a week.

 

  • Being seven days indoors is exhausting and depressing.
  • Stayingseven daysentirely indoors for seven days is exhausting and depressing.

 

  • I love my career, but some subjects displease me… even so, I must approve them and that’s my problem: it’s really bothersome to study and learn something you don’t like, don’t you think so?
  • I love my career, but some subjects displease me… even so, I must study them and that’s my problem: it’s really bothersome tostudyand learn something you don’t like, don’t you think so?

 

  • At least for me is terrible!
  • At least for me this is terrible!

 

  • But well, finally holidays come!
  • But wellStill, finallythe holidays have finally come! (the mix of bold and blue may be confusing here. to sum up: you can say "finally the holidays have come" but it sounds more natural to say "the holidays have finally come")

 

  • I approved three subjects: Communication I, Expression and Anthropology.
  • I improved three subjects: Communication I, Expression and Anthropology.

 

  • They didn’t give me my grade at Economics yet; last Friday I took the final exam, so tomorrow I will receive the result.
  • They didn’t give me my grade in Economics yet; last Friday I took the final exam, so tomorrow I will receive my results.

 

  • I’m a little worry; however I supposed I did it well… I hope so!!!!
  • I’m a little worried; however I think I did it well… I hope so!!!!

 

  • I really don’t want to take an Economics exam never again!
  • I really don’t want to take an Economics exam ever again! (the double negatives in English cancel each other out: negative + negative = positive. therefore it is "dont" and "ever", it is not "don't" and "never")

 

  • Now that I’m free, I wanna do more posts here.
  • Now that I’m freehave more free time, I want to write more posts here.

 

  • Then I tried the same with a story I wrote by myself, and it wasn’t the same… it turned very complicated to convert some Spanish expressions to English, to found the words in a different language.
  • Then I tried the same with a story I wrote by myself, and it wasn’t the same… it became very complicated to convert some Spanish expressions to English- to find the words in a different language.

 

  • Maybe it’s because I still don’t know the common English expressions… for example, I could understand the meaning of “feeling blue” just days ago, until then I was wondering what was that, cause taking it literally was really strange.
  • Maybe it’s because I still don’t know the common English expressions… for example, I couldn't understand the meaning of “feeling blue” just days ago, until then I was wondering what it was that, cause taking it literally was really strange.

 

  • I can’t connect to internet, neither listen music…just write, well at least write!
  • I can’t connect to internet, or listen music…just write. Well at least I can stillwrite!

 

  • haha then it’s probably I won’t see the corrections until New Year.
  • haha then I probably I won’t see the corrections until New Year.

 
bold = correction
blue = suggestion
Dec 22nd 2009 21:56 naoki

I hope that you will return to Lang-8 with a new nice PC xD When I was a university student, I wasn't good at Economics. After a semester final exam of Economics, I forgot almost all of the knowledge of Economics xD On the other hand, I liked English courses, though I wasn't able to improve my English skills enough...
Dec 31st 2009 07:46 nori

Thank you so much for the corrections Gilablue!!!!!
Dec 31st 2009 07:49 nori

Naoki: thanks for comment....
I’m back with the same PC, but repaired! Jaja
And good news: I approved Economics!!!! I’m really happy!


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