Monday, February 28, 2011

English 122

So I am not encouraging this, but at the moment I am sitting in my Engish 2 class. Yes I am completely bored out of my mind, but hey at least this class isn't extremely hard. My teacher is a walrus (well that is what my borther calls him), his real name is, well I will keep that a secret incass he finds this blog. Anyways, he talks in that mono tone that every student dreads, wears really weird cloths (for example at the moment he is wearing a purple sweater with a dark blue button up collar shirt). His hand writing is almost undestinguishable, which means reading his comments on our essays is near impossible. Oh have I told you yet that his major was in Celtic Lore, I know right, who the heck majors in that? The one thing that really annoys me is that he always talks through things really slow. At the moment he is telling us about intext quotations and he has been doing this for the past twenty minutes. Yea well I have learned a few things, like making sure you put quotation marks around the qoute, (let me just say that he had to give us a demonstration for this). Woah, the first letter in the quote is capitalized, who would have known!
   Figures, he managed to find the only article in the whole book that talks about Celtic history. He always does that, its like he has a super power to find them. Wait hold on I need to pay attention............. Okay, he just got off of the topic of ellipsis (which he had to write down both the plural and singular versions of the word), and is now talking about Syntax. Oh great, he is asking us to define it.......... Thats kind of him, he gave us the deffinition after a guy defined 'sin tax.' Another definition! Okay, trivia question, what does context mean, any guesses? Here is the first clue he gave us, "Con(text)." Okay I give up, what is it? "The text surrounding a selected area." Ugh, I was that close to guessing something like that, well atleast now I know what it is (that was completely sarcastic). Great, three points to explain what context means. "Taking something out of context means that you miss interpret what the speaker was really trying to say," (why thanks oh teacher, I had no clue what it meant!). "Okay I think that is probably enough here. Wait, one more thing-" (really, I get it already, you don't need to continue!). Oh great, he has an exercise on it, sounds wonderful. Groups of five, really I don't think that it is that hard. Well I better go, hope you enjoyed my exsperience of todays english class. Tune back later for another totally boring class.

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