Since my summer classes are only 4 weeks long, I have two midterms on Friday! I will also be getting ready for a trip to San Jose this Friday, which is horrible timing. I wonder if my teachers will give us Memorial Day off...
I still don't really like studying about gender, but the class itself is interesting and not so bad, and the pacing is not too bad. My pidgin class, on the other hand, required me to watch 2 hours of video, review 2 lectures, and read 45 pages of text... and that just for Wednesday's assignment. Whew.
I might mention here that I got 4 A's and an A- this last semester, which means a year's GPA of something very close to 4.0. I am saying this now because it is looking to go down with this class.
The content of the pidgins class is a little disappointed, since it's now focusing Hawaii and hopefully getting around to the actual creole and how it's used in the islands. This is all very interesting, of course, and I am getting a crash course in Hawaiian history, but I liked my Jamaican English and Bajan accent studies. Although I should be grateful my professor didn't decide to add those on to what we're already studying...
Right now I'm trying to decide if Hawaiian-based terms should be italicized in my assignment. I think it looks pompous. But it is on history and Captain Cook, and he was a little pompous too.
Lalani kahle! (That would be Zulu for 'good night'. It's a very interesting language. Hi, I'm a Linguistics major.)
Heh, one good way to learn Pidgin is to take a Hawaiian class. Many examples of new features are preceded by "For those of you who speak Pidgin, it's just like such-and-such..."
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