… so I'm going to go to sleep now.
I need to get adequate sleep otherwise it will effect my memory from what I've read. According to some internet nerd if you don't get enough sleep, your short-term memory will not be good as your brain processes the information you obtained and stores it in the right compartment of your brain. (So perhaps that is my issue? I am not getting enough sleep! :D) – So here is to a new method to solving my mental issues.
I've completed all my homework and in-fact the teacher didn't give us a 50 questions to answer on our sheet, she in-fact gave us 70 questions to answer. Although I had the help of my cousin, it still took a while to complete the sheet and to be honest I still don't fully understand it.
So tomorrow, I'll wake up early. (Probably around 6 a.m. and just study the sheet a bit more and figure out why the answers I put down were/are correct) 😀
Hopefully tomorrow's lesson goes well. I just hate having bad lessons where I think I've done badly, although I have studied hard for those lessons not to look like a dummy. It just sucks when I have spent most of today studying, yet it seems others spend a couple hours and they are better than me at the lesson. (Though I'm not judging others, I'm in fact judging myself)
Damn am I finding this Chinese hard. Tomorrow I will find a language partner as apparently you can sign up for one at the language centre for free, as they are aspiring teachers who want to gain experience in teaching Chinese to others. So I think that would be quite helpful if I did in-fact sign up for a language partner. Then I could ask the questions I need to ask to actually have this stuff figured out in my brain! I may have to re-take the same level class that I am in again, but I guess that isn't too bad. I met an acquaintance (through a friend) and she had been studying Chinese for 5 years and she is only a level above me and I have only been studying for around 4.5 months. That gave me relief as that made me feel as if I'm not the only one struggling! (Although from my perspective, I am the only one really struggling in my own class, although most of my class mates are Asian!) – So my Korean friend has been continuously saying to me that I shouldn't be comparing myself to them, since their languages are more similar to Chinese than in comparison to English. (My first language)
Another person who is my friend (Who is from America) also re-took the same level as mine. In fact he said he thought he needed to re-take level 0 Chinese. – That gave me hope as I had the same feeling as well! He said he used to come into Chinese class every morning sad, which kind of reminds me of me and when the teacher asked him why he was sad, he would state "I suck at Chinese…". – Kind of the same situation as me. 😀 It kind of made me feel that I'm not alone in this. I mean I have read stories online of people not being able to learn the language within 10 years or they stayed at the same level for over 10 years and never really progressed. I just hope that isn't me. I mean I know that isn't me, because with a little more time I can progress onto the next level. I'm just learning really slowly or slower than others, which is really pissing me off.
/end rant 😀
