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Once again, I am going to have a fake holiday, but this one seems much worse then the one I had before. I suppose it is due to the staff that I do. In this time last year my holiday was actually quite proper because I had most of my test on the last week of the first half of the semester, but then we had seven weeks instead of the usual six due to the timing of the Easter break.
While…although I am complaining I am grateful that I have at least a ‘holiday’, Albatross-sis does not even have a holiday, she have classes that can only be done in the time of the Easter break, which I don’t really get but well, at least I don’t have to have classes in these time. Apparently her lecturer even said something like this to them: “Because you guys are post-graduate students, you guys don’t get to have holidays. But it seems that post grad students really are different, as my sister say they to a heck a lot of studying.
But why I don’t have a holiday…a geography assignment to do (gosh, I got my first one back and I actually got 4.1 out of 5, pretty impressive as I didn’t have any idea to what the heck debris flow and floods are. They give you this cd and you find the answers in it, but it is still not that easy.); a geography test to prepare for (yuck, yuck); an accounting test to do (I don’t like this one that much but at least the past test give you a better clue. You know it will be something similar.); and a history essay that is due a week and a half after the holidays end.
I actually took out all my past history essays that I wrote in university and stare hard at them, trying to determine why I got this mark for this one, and why I got a higher or lower one for the other ones. The result…I still don’t really understand. But I will rather research a history essay then a management one, or a geography one, because at least the history stuff is interesting. I am going to do my essay on the eleventh and twelfth century reformation. Now that I think about, that seems to be a topic that I am quite interested in in history. For my other history cause, I actually did essays on the reformations in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, so this time I’m just jumping a few steps back. The other area that I really like in history is actually printing, and this have a very funny origin. It was all due to the song ‘Florence’ in the musical ‘Notre dame de Paris’, which is sung by my favourite singer of all times. The song talks about the changes that are coming into the world, which relates to printing. This is something that Victor Hugo (the author of Notre-dame de Paris. I simply refuse to use the ghastly English translation of the story) spend a whole chapter of his book talking about. And as a result of the song I became super interested in the idea of printing, and I did one of my NCEA level 3 assessment on it. We had to collect information about a selected topic (mine was printing) and I actually used that chapter of Hugo’s story and I was marked as being very original in gathering my sources. (After I heard the song I went to re-read the chapter. So that high mark is all is thanks to Bruno Pelletier!
This is the song, I thought I might as well put it up since I’ve been talking about it a lot.
Florence- lyrics by Luc Plamadon
Speak to me about Florence
And the Renaissance
Speak to me about Bramante
And the Hell of Dante
In Florence one tells that the ground would be round
And that there would be another
Continent in this world
Boats left already on the ocean
To seek the door of the road of the Indies
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
And we are at the dawn of a divided world
A certain Gutenberg
Will change the face of the world
On the press of Nuremberg
One prints at every second
Poems on paper
Speeches and verses
The new ideas
Will sweep across the old
The small things always come to end the large
And literature will kill architecture
The books of the schools will kill the cathedrals
The Bible will kill the Church and man will kill God
This will kill that
Boats left already on the ocean
To seek the door of the road of the Indies
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
And we are at the dawn of a divided world
This will kill that
This will kill that
While…although I am complaining I am grateful that I have at least a ‘holiday’, Albatross-sis does not even have a holiday, she have classes that can only be done in the time of the Easter break, which I don’t really get but well, at least I don’t have to have classes in these time. Apparently her lecturer even said something like this to them: “Because you guys are post-graduate students, you guys don’t get to have holidays. But it seems that post grad students really are different, as my sister say they to a heck a lot of studying.
But why I don’t have a holiday…a geography assignment to do (gosh, I got my first one back and I actually got 4.1 out of 5, pretty impressive as I didn’t have any idea to what the heck debris flow and floods are. They give you this cd and you find the answers in it, but it is still not that easy.); a geography test to prepare for (yuck, yuck); an accounting test to do (I don’t like this one that much but at least the past test give you a better clue. You know it will be something similar.); and a history essay that is due a week and a half after the holidays end.
I actually took out all my past history essays that I wrote in university and stare hard at them, trying to determine why I got this mark for this one, and why I got a higher or lower one for the other ones. The result…I still don’t really understand. But I will rather research a history essay then a management one, or a geography one, because at least the history stuff is interesting. I am going to do my essay on the eleventh and twelfth century reformation. Now that I think about, that seems to be a topic that I am quite interested in in history. For my other history cause, I actually did essays on the reformations in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, so this time I’m just jumping a few steps back. The other area that I really like in history is actually printing, and this have a very funny origin. It was all due to the song ‘Florence’ in the musical ‘Notre dame de Paris’, which is sung by my favourite singer of all times. The song talks about the changes that are coming into the world, which relates to printing. This is something that Victor Hugo (the author of Notre-dame de Paris. I simply refuse to use the ghastly English translation of the story) spend a whole chapter of his book talking about. And as a result of the song I became super interested in the idea of printing, and I did one of my NCEA level 3 assessment on it. We had to collect information about a selected topic (mine was printing) and I actually used that chapter of Hugo’s story and I was marked as being very original in gathering my sources. (After I heard the song I went to re-read the chapter. So that high mark is all is thanks to Bruno Pelletier!
This is the song, I thought I might as well put it up since I’ve been talking about it a lot.
Florence- lyrics by Luc Plamadon
Speak to me about Florence
And the Renaissance
Speak to me about Bramante
And the Hell of Dante
In Florence one tells that the ground would be round
And that there would be another
Continent in this world
Boats left already on the ocean
To seek the door of the road of the Indies
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
And we are at the dawn of a divided world
A certain Gutenberg
Will change the face of the world
On the press of Nuremberg
One prints at every second
Poems on paper
Speeches and verses
The new ideas
Will sweep across the old
The small things always come to end the large
And literature will kill architecture
The books of the schools will kill the cathedrals
The Bible will kill the Church and man will kill God
This will kill that
Boats left already on the ocean
To seek the door of the road of the Indies
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
And we are at the dawn of a divided world
This will kill that
This will kill that
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