Yesterday I read some blog entries from a Carinthian girl who was in America during this semester. Indeed she writes mostly in German but there are also some English entries. She expresses her feelings and her thoughts in a very entertaining and funny way and it is really an amusement to read her entries because she wirtes about everything. She was in America for about four month and worked there on her degree dissertation. She studies in Klagenfurt and came back only one week ago.
This blog is interesting for everybody who wants to study abroad for some time (so it is the right one for us) and if you read the entries you can see that is not only fun but also depressing and difficult.
If you want to check this posts you have to go to the following website (I hope it still exists although she has already come back):
www.kleinezeitung.at/inamerica
Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007
Dienstag, 12. Juni 2007
stress, stress, nothing but stress
To be honest, at the moment I am not sold on being a student. But probably it is the same for everybody currently. At the end of every semester it is the same. You have about four exams a week and furthermore you have to do presentations, homework,... .
Apropos presentation, today I had to present, together with a friend of mine, three very comprehensive and complicate topics in our proseminar-classtime. The preperation for this presentation occupied the whole, long weekend. It was about the following topics (I am not sure if you are interested in it, but anyway, I am going to tell you): The first one was "translation and power", then it was "feminism in translation" and the last one was "translation and postcolonialism". Isn`t it great? I know it sounds quite interesting but it sounds also easier than it actually is. The biggest problem of the topics was probably, that nearly every single page was in ENGLISH. Of course, I like English but with these texts I had my problems. Really, I had to struggle a lot that I could understand them and that I was able to translate them. I had about seventy pages to work through and I was the luckiest and most satisfied person when I finished it on Sunday at 11 p.m. To sum up, I am simply really happy that the presentation is over.
But this is just the beginning of two very stressful and nerve-racking weeks! We have to hang on, and look forward to the three month which come afterwards!
Apropos presentation, today I had to present, together with a friend of mine, three very comprehensive and complicate topics in our proseminar-classtime. The preperation for this presentation occupied the whole, long weekend. It was about the following topics (I am not sure if you are interested in it, but anyway, I am going to tell you): The first one was "translation and power", then it was "feminism in translation" and the last one was "translation and postcolonialism". Isn`t it great? I know it sounds quite interesting but it sounds also easier than it actually is. The biggest problem of the topics was probably, that nearly every single page was in ENGLISH. Of course, I like English but with these texts I had my problems. Really, I had to struggle a lot that I could understand them and that I was able to translate them. I had about seventy pages to work through and I was the luckiest and most satisfied person when I finished it on Sunday at 11 p.m. To sum up, I am simply really happy that the presentation is over.
But this is just the beginning of two very stressful and nerve-racking weeks! We have to hang on, and look forward to the three month which come afterwards!
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