Eu não sei...

Schmickles. That word describes the past couple of days! So do the words Embarrassing, Confusing, Boredom....

We went to our first Turism in Portugal class, and the teacher introduced us to the whole class, who proceeded to whoop and clap like maniacs! They treated us like stars! Extranho! Anyway, they spent the whole two hours periodically looking at us (we were at the back of the class) and grinning inanely! Bless them! Anyway, it was nice at the end, as a lad called João and a girl called Marbelha (or sommat) introduced themselves to us and said if we were stuck with anything, we could ask them for help, which I thought was really friendly.

We had our Translation and Back-translation classes for Technical and Literary texts today too. The first woman was a brummie called Wendy, who I swear was seperated at birth from one of the linguistics teachers at uni (Diane Blakemore for those of you in the know). Then we had a German woman who did Portuguese to English literary translation. She proceeded to tell me that some of the words I used in my English were wrong. This comes from a woman who wrote "I find myself grabbed by the arm, let's dance, tapped on the shoulder by an old boy". Hmmm... how about no Blanche...

Anyways, we went to 2nd year Portuguese language and literature, understood nothing, and was insulted by the teacher who said "this class isn't for you" with a subliminal "GET OUT" added on. So, sod it, I'm not doing that. I'm going to go to Tourism instead and get stared at!

Big OLÁ to Jonathan for his little message. Megamail winging its way when I have something to report!

Currently listening to Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is You ("Now that's gay, as Pedro put it)

Tra!

Ben xxxx

PS. funny video; made me and Pedro laugh! Click on this: Video