Qu'est-ce Qu'y Se Passe Au Florence...

I truly have no clue if that was grammatically correct, but since I'm losing sleep over so much else, I won't allow myself to lose sleep over this. I must say, I'm a little disappointed in some GISD systems. Let me explain, Internet Abyss.

This is my fourth year in French. I was supposed to be the only French IV (an AP class) but we have a lovely foreign exchange student from Italy [she's beautiful, it must be the water, I never saw an ugly person in Italy] and she's also in that level, which would be wonderful if there were a French IV class. Alas, there is not. Which sticks both of us in different French III classes. This is the first problem I have: Why on earth, if I just took French III and passed with flying colors, would they put me in that class? Do they expect the teacher to clone herself so that she may pay individual attention to us IV's who need the attention? For we are the ones taking the college-level exam at the end of the year and, frankly, it's been three days and I've learned nothing. This has never happened to me before. French has always come very easily to me and I've never really had to work at it and I've always learned something new in the first few days and now I feel like I've gone back in time.

It's just very irritating, because I've worked my arse off to be the best in my level and now I find myself floating along with nothing to do really, to no fault of the teacher, to be sure. Here is another issue we're having: A woman [I've forgotten the particulars, like her actual title, so allow me to call her 'woman' hahaha] told Prof that she could have a zero period that she could use for the IV(s). Yet when I asked the councelors to let me transfer into the zero period and supplement my last class with American Sign Language, they stared at me much like I stared at the woman in Paris who didn't seem to understand that I was an American, dammit. It was that wide-eyed, please-talk-slower look. So e-mails were sent and now we have to go through this whole ridiculous process just so that I can have an hour a day to learn something. I just have no idea what was going through the Higher Beings' minds when they set this whole thing up. Did they say to each other, "Yes, this system shall work, for certainly both the III's and the IV's can get an adequate education squeezed out of one teacher in one hour." Apparently they think my French teacher is a starfish, so they can cut off her arm and a new Prof will grow!

That last bit may not have made sense, but it did to me, so get over it.

"This is all very vexing." -- Lady Catherine de Bourgh, P&P, no context here

I'm just very tired and very stressed and very sick, and Fatty wants some cake. Maybe I'll make un gateau...

xoxo