She said that. I mean the teacher of the course in question. She gave me and my pair feedback on the presentation after I send e-mail conserning the presentation. It's good to have critical feedback so that I can improve my skills for all the forthcoming presentation I'll have in the future. One very brief presentation I have scheduled for next Friday when I can give a short analysis of the language Bush Jr. uses. I think I'm going to find the table I found by accident (thank heavens for synchronicity) about a forthnight ago. And then, of course, some examples of his numerous malapropisms. I'm not sure where to find a reliable source for word-to-word quotations from his speeches he's made over the years, but I'm sure I'll come up with something. It would be interesting to make a comparison between the frequency of certain words (i.e. terrorism, oil, Iraq...) in his speeches before and after 9/11.
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But the presentation I had two weeks ago. My teacher said that I cannot be held responsible for my involuntary physical reactions to the situations (fair enough). She said that my passion towards the subject really went beyond the course requirements. I'm not sure if Modernism really is something I'm that passionate about, though. It's more books and literature in general that I'm passionate about... and The X-Files, naturally. Fact forbid, if they ever make the mistake of letting me get started about The X-Files. I wish I had told them that.
Anyway, the transparencies were good, as was the audiovisual part of the presentation (I'm not sure if I've told you this but I showed them the beginning of The Hours as part of my Virginia Woolf section). I have to say that I get some twisted pleasure out of both my teacher and my pair saying that I should seriously consider becoming a teacher, possibly a literature teacher. Well, Wanderer just said to me on Wednesday being an English teacher isn't probably my future career. Now I'm not so sure. But I know one thing: if becoming a teacher means that I have to, at any point, go back to junior high (7th to 9th grade) I will not be a teacher. Well, unless I can, of course, do it without official qualifications and be an English teacher. As much as I love literature, I also love the English language more than Finnish (I would get fried for this notion by my major's teachers and co-students...). At some point I also appeared slightly militant (according to my teacher, at least; I myself have no recollection of this none whatsoever). I think I might have been telling the group to read so section of the handout. I was probably so ready to get their attention away from me that my voice may have sounded a bit too commanding. She also asked me whether I noticed how my audience reacted to my presentation (no, I was quite preoccupied with getting some part of my work gone through that I didn't really pay much attention to the rest of the group. According to my teacher and my pair I had their full attention at all times. Nice, all those eyes staring at me, no one playing with their cell phone or expressing their artistic ambitions on the carefully planned handout... not bad, I might add.
But all in all, as I have quoted in my title, my presentation was "very, very good" and my passion was noticeable (which, apparently, left her in an owe for a while). YAY! One thirds of my grade falling under the heading "very, very good" (which, hopefully, means a five).
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The Meme of the Day:
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES ON AND OOOOOON!
I've been humming and whispering this particular line since last night. Ari is a bloody good singer! Guy looks like a twelve-year-old but (possibly) sings better than Tony Kakko. And has better English (and longer hair).
Keep on rocking, Ari!
