Nuncle

Hello,

Went to see King Lear at the U of C today. It was a really good production, with a mix of student and professional actors. The acting was really good and the experience of watching a play was nice. The only change I would have made would be flipping the actresses that played Goneril and Regan around. Every time I looked at one I thought of the other. Also Kent and the Fool were women. Kent was pulled off wonderfully, I have now decided that Kent can be unisex, and the Fool was meant to be a woman! The character made so much more sense as a woman.

Other than that... I'm dealing with this girl at school who's decided that something that was equally our faults was entirely mine, and is treating me like I killed her dog. She's being very unreasonable about it, and she's throwing away a friendship I really valued, but I suppose I can deal with that. That's life. What I can't deal with, is the fact that she's in my group for our Theory of Knowledge presentation and she's pretending I don't exist. If we can't work together, at least civilly if nothing else, I don't know how this project is going to work out. I'm really worried about it. As much I hate to do it, I may have to use the third girl in our group as a liaison to see where we stand on this, because this girl isn't going to give in that easily. I know her well enough to know that's not going to happen.

I apparently have my French IB oral final to look forward to in 3 weeks' time. I need to talk for two and a half to three minutes about a picture they give me and then spend an equal amount of time answering questions. I'm getting a lot better at the pictures and conversational French is relatively easy, it's just that I've been failing all my presentations because they're so... artificial. It's like: talk for two and half minutes about 'x'. Go. Um... okay, sure. No problem. In any case, I think I'll do well on the oral final.

Then, in 30 days' time, I'm heading off to Europe! I'm going with a group of students from the languages classes at my school to Europe for 12 days. We're going to Paris first, doing stuff in and around there, going to Toulouse, then down to Barcelona and onward to Madrid. Since I'm in the French program, I get to do a lot of talking in France and a lot of learning. I'm getting better at comprehending what I hear lately, so this should go relatively well. Although in Spain... I'm going to be pretending I'm mute. I'm sure the listening will go alright, cognates and all, but I can't speak a word other than "gracias". Which I will be using. A lot.

That's it for today, I've been trying to get something creative out, but there's simply no time.

Good night!
~Alexandra

P.S. Read more of "Oryx and Crake". Very good book, I'm really enjoying it. Easily one of the better ones we've read for school.