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my first session as a philologist

27/01/2020

The 25th of January was the last day of the winter session.

Honestly, I’m so fucking tired.

The last three weeks I went to bed at about five in the morning. 

My first exam was The History of Ancient Literature. 

These are all stuff about Petronius lewd play, Diogenes' life in a barrel and how Zeus liked to hang out with the dozens of women. Did I want to know about strange fetishes of Greece poets? Absolutely no! Was it funny? Okay, it was. 

And Rome, c’mon, I believe you could create something by yourself!

Actually, I was preparing for the exam so I’m aware they had a lot o their own things.

I was lucky ‘cause my teacher is a honey bunny who loves me for no reason. I don’t say my answer was terrible (because it was really good), but her kindness helped me to concentrate. I got B. It was a great begin. I wish all teachers were like her.

My second exam was Folklore.

Geez, I’m so happy I won’t see that mean old man again. He was a complete asshole. The first answer was perfect, but then he was tired to listening me. I thought I would get an A, but no, he didn’t think so. 

"Darling, can you speak Russian?" 

" Oh, no, sorry, Latin is the one and only language I can speaking."

" Yeah, can you listen to my answer and not interrupting me every second? I’m trying to give you an answer!"  

"Excuse me, what?"

However, it was the funniest exam I ever had. For example, all our group was laughing because of the stupid folk superstitions like feeding your crush with pie with pigeon fat (yeah, pigeon have fat) or crawling under the table when you’re in labor (oh, poor women of old Russian villages). 

Did you know that in order for the little boy to be born, the head of the female at the time of conception had to lie towards the north? 

Yeah-yeah, fuck the genetics.

What was I talking about? Ah, yeah, I got a B. 

The third exam was The History of Ancient Russian Literature.

If you only know how it’s massive and boring. 

Sometimes texts were as funny as foolish. For example, 

“...прiиде же окаянный Сотона ко Адаму и измаза его каломъ и тиною и возгрями”. 

Okay, it says here: “Damned Soton (okay, it’s Satan, but I find this spelling so funny) came to Adam and smeared him with excrement, ooze and snot nose”. It’s an Old Russian language so even I have some problems with reading. Earlier, I did’t know what “возгри” is (by the by, it’s pronounce like ‘ vozgri’), but now... Yeah, it's snot.

Russian literature was my first A. And my teacher was really nice. We talked about sins, fate and their connection in a later Russian literature. Also, we talked about bogatyrs. It was really interesting conversation.

The last exam was Literary science.

We thought it was the easiest subject we ever had. Well, we were right. Sometimes, I think that this is the only thing that I really understand. You need just read and... that’s all. Just read. Understanding the theory will come over time.  At least, that's the way it was for me.

What’s about the exam? I’m fucked up. When I got my examination question I thought everything was okay. But then I reread it and wanted to change. Sadly, it was too late. My last hope was my cheat sheet. Well, it helped me very well.

“Honey, who wrote this poems?”

“Oh, shit! Who? I'm not a psychic. Tell her “This is Pushkin” is the dumbest thing I can do! But I don’t fucking know whose poems is it... Do I have a choice?”

“Pushkin?”

“That’s right, honey!”

When I returned to my place to finished my practical part I found that I forgot to hide my cheat sheet. And big white list of paper was lying in the middle of black table. I don’t know how teacher didn’t catch me. Maybe, she saw it but decided to pretend that there was nothing. Anyway, I’m thankful to this lady.

(Unfortunately, I haven’t any memes about Russian literature in English.)

To sum up

I want to say that this session was really funny. Yeah, it was rather difficult, but also interesting and it helped me to realize how can I operate efficiently during such a short duration.

Sorry for my English, I’m just an nineteen-years Russian student with miserable B1.

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one another strange day with my strange Latin teacher

30/12/2019

Today was the day of the exam in the Latin language, but...

Okay, for the record, today is 30th of December. Almost the last day of the year. 

I haven't yet prepared presents for my family, but I read all Latin grammar rule. I know everything about Plusquamperfectum Indicativi Activi et Passivi, all forms of Participium and other Latin stuff. But nothing about gift for my best friend. 

And again. 

I drove 8 km to the university (oh, how I love it!). You should know that the temperature was -30 degrees (as my dad says "It's the Ural, honey") and in the city there was some kind of collapse with transport. 

I was almost late. If my teacher weren't late too.

There were four of us. And three of us had a full automatic A for the exam because our teacher was in high spirits (okay, we're also diligent students). She asked why we had come without Christmas hats. And we were so scared of her generosity that we just laughed nervously.

All in all, this woman is great. I love her so much.

I still don't have gifts for my family (and it's almost December 31), but I got my gift.

I’m tired, but happy. And I’ve a lot of time to watch Naruto, translate fanfics and just be happy!

Happy New Year!

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small post about my uninteresting day

17/12/2019

For the first time, I overslept my history class. I spent an hour on the road to the university.

My Latin teacher told me I could go home cuz I passed the final test very well (this is great news, however, the only one).

So I had to go home.

I drove 8 km to say ’Hi’ to my course mates, turn around, and go back. And I drove 8 km again. I hate this Tuesday.

Why did I wake up today at all?

(I thought I could destroy everything around me because of my anger, just like Sakura)

I just wanna sleep and watch Naruto.

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stiles: i need to leave, i hate needles

melissa: hold her hand

stiles: i love needles, needles are my favorite, i run a needle fan club actually

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jeff: stiles loves her since 3th grade

fandom: okay

jeff: they grow closer during the first two seasons

fandom: okay

jeff: lydia kisses stiles

fandom: okay

jeff: stiles is willing to die for lydia

fandom: okay

jeff: lydia is willing to die for stiles

fandom: okay

jeff: they hold hands for ten hours straight

fandom: okay

jeff: but they are both in love with people they know for like a month

fandom: okay

jeff: do you understand?

fandom: no