*does a dance of joy*

First off, yay! First grade: I had 15.5 at my literature oral exam. Hurray! That's actually a good grade, yes. I hope I did good at the written exam too 'cause I'd like to be able to say I rocked in literature. Especially with the teacher we have. I'm so excited (as the Pointer Sisters are singing right this minute)!

Oh, and my oral on Tuesday went great. It was oral expression, so we just had to do a 10/15-minute-long presentation about one of the three subjects we had proposed. They chose for me to talk about capoeira and it went really well. They were genuinely interested - and the 'lecteur' that was there was Rory, with the sweet Birmingham accent.

Also, got a woman from the school I'll be working at next year on the phone. I won't actually be in Warrington, but in a village. She told it was really easy to go to Manchester, though (!!!). The school's a language centre, so they teach lots of language, I hope I'll be able to take advantage of that to get some more Russian down. I'll be renting a room at someone's place, but I'll have my own kitchen, and apparently there might be other assistants living there too. Sweet. Also, there'll be one other French assistant, two German, and one Spanish if I'm not mistaken. It felt really good to be talking with that woman, she was extremely nice (whoever said that English people were cold had obviously had little interaction with French people) and I can't wait to be over there! That's for the gushing.

Here's a survey about writing I gakked from cgwriting. It's rather long.

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