Life and plans
Jul. 6th, 2007 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwaevalarinI haven't written about my personal life for quite a while now because there's nothing really exciting going on. But I still think it's time for an update.
The semester is coming to an end soon - two more weeks to be exact. That's usually the time when things get crazy but since I probably won't take part in a single (written) test the semester is rather dying away this time. There's one lecture where we'll be able to write a test just to see what questions could be like at our diploma examination but that'll be very relaxed since it doesn't count for anything. And there's the presentation for my practical course which looks like a pretty big deal with being public and the press being there and stuff but I don't have to do this one on my own plus I'm fairly sure they're just trying to make it look important. Either my team thinks it really is a big deal then one of them'll probably want to do the presentation and I'll just attend for moral support. Or they think about it like I do and then I don't really have any problems with doing half of the presentation or something. I don't really like speaking in public but as long as I can figure out exactly what I want to say beforehand it's okay.
Future plans other that I'm still dreaming about owning a small house somewhere at the Irish coast - Southern England'd be fine, too: I have this idea lately that once I have my diploma I want to get my Master as a professional translater or something like that. Of course I want to finish my diploma in computer science first even if that may just be because I want to prove that I can and I already spent so much time and energy on it. Plus I need the diploma for my Master if I don't want to spent another 2 years on the Bachelor first.
But starting right with the Master means I'll need a really good basis. I don't think that'll be too big problem with English but I'll need at least one more language. I'm afraid Latin won't count. Not that I still know that much Latin. Actually I never did since I used to hate that language. Stupid me. Now I'd love to know more Latin. Why didn't anyone tell me that back in school? Anyway I'll need another living language and I have about two and a half years to learn it properly if I start now. So I did start. Yesterday. With learning Spanish. For a start I went to the local library and got a book. Funny thing I figured out today when I tried to remember the first bunch of vocabulary that consisted of short sentences: I tried to figure out the grammatical structures without even realizing it first. I guess that makes things much easier for me. I always was much better with grammar than with memorizing vocabulary.
Next step will probably be a Spanish course at university and maybe an English language course either in Galway or Cambridge. I'm thinking about next year early spring or around August/September for the latter.
I'm not saying I'll really go through with this plan. Who know's what I'll be doing and what I want in two and a half years time. So much can happen till then. But I want to keep all my options open. And fortunately learning a new language never is for nothing.
What else? I'm not even sure I ever mentioned I'm learning how to ride. So in case you don't know:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dimturien has been giving me riding lessons for... more than half a year now. Once a week. Okay, sometimes it's only every other week because other things intevene. She's doing an awesome job, by the way. It's going... well, some things go quite well, some don't. But there's not really any pressure since I'm not planing on doing a test in dressage or anything 
I'm mostly doing this for fun and getting my mind off everyday life. So as long as Dim and Marietta are not annoyed with me not figuring some things out I'm fine. Of course I want to be able to go for a ride and feel safe because I know what I'm doing one day but I'm not in a hurry.
By the way: Sorry for hardly commenting lately. I'm not online that much at the moment. That seems to happen that time of the year that I suddenly lose interest in going online a little. I always thought that was with spending more time outside but obviously it happens during rainy summers as well. I'm reading all your entries though. And I'm sure there'll be times when I spent almost every waking hour in front of my computer again.
The semester is coming to an end soon - two more weeks to be exact. That's usually the time when things get crazy but since I probably won't take part in a single (written) test the semester is rather dying away this time. There's one lecture where we'll be able to write a test just to see what questions could be like at our diploma examination but that'll be very relaxed since it doesn't count for anything. And there's the presentation for my practical course which looks like a pretty big deal with being public and the press being there and stuff but I don't have to do this one on my own plus I'm fairly sure they're just trying to make it look important. Either my team thinks it really is a big deal then one of them'll probably want to do the presentation and I'll just attend for moral support. Or they think about it like I do and then I don't really have any problems with doing half of the presentation or something. I don't really like speaking in public but as long as I can figure out exactly what I want to say beforehand it's okay.
Future plans other that I'm still dreaming about owning a small house somewhere at the Irish coast - Southern England'd be fine, too: I have this idea lately that once I have my diploma I want to get my Master as a professional translater or something like that. Of course I want to finish my diploma in computer science first even if that may just be because I want to prove that I can and I already spent so much time and energy on it. Plus I need the diploma for my Master if I don't want to spent another 2 years on the Bachelor first.
But starting right with the Master means I'll need a really good basis. I don't think that'll be too big problem with English but I'll need at least one more language. I'm afraid Latin won't count. Not that I still know that much Latin. Actually I never did since I used to hate that language. Stupid me. Now I'd love to know more Latin. Why didn't anyone tell me that back in school? Anyway I'll need another living language and I have about two and a half years to learn it properly if I start now. So I did start. Yesterday. With learning Spanish. For a start I went to the local library and got a book. Funny thing I figured out today when I tried to remember the first bunch of vocabulary that consisted of short sentences: I tried to figure out the grammatical structures without even realizing it first. I guess that makes things much easier for me. I always was much better with grammar than with memorizing vocabulary.
Next step will probably be a Spanish course at university and maybe an English language course either in Galway or Cambridge. I'm thinking about next year early spring or around August/September for the latter.
I'm not saying I'll really go through with this plan. Who know's what I'll be doing and what I want in two and a half years time. So much can happen till then. But I want to keep all my options open. And fortunately learning a new language never is for nothing.
What else? I'm not even sure I ever mentioned I'm learning how to ride. So in case you don't know:
dimturien has been giving me riding lessons for... more than half a year now. Once a week. Okay, sometimes it's only every other week because other things intevene. She's doing an awesome job, by the way. It's going... well, some things go quite well, some don't. But there's not really any pressure since I'm not planing on doing a test in dressage or anything I'm mostly doing this for fun and getting my mind off everyday life. So as long as Dim and Marietta are not annoyed with me not figuring some things out I'm fine. Of course I want to be able to go for a ride and feel safe because I know what I'm doing one day but I'm not in a hurry.By the way: Sorry for hardly commenting lately. I'm not online that much at the moment. That seems to happen that time of the year that I suddenly lose interest in going online a little. I always thought that was with spending more time outside but obviously it happens during rainy summers as well. I'm reading all your entries though. And I'm sure there'll be times when I spent almost every waking hour in front of my computer again.
