I've been working on my Spanish report. i've covered Pinochet's backstory until 08/23/1973 and I'm doing Allende's politics in 1970 to 1973 right now to catch up to the point where his and Pinochet's lives really collide. But because I wanted to do something else and talk a bit and whatever, maybe I just like to listen to my voice, I took my notes and talked them through while recording it. I go into tangents every once in a while which of course I won't do when I'm doing the report but this was mostly so I could hear everything out loud in my own words to see if I understood what was going on and stuff. I've talked for forty minutes ... Yes, I got hung up on Lucia's name a few times and talked a bit about Prats and in the end it will be a lot shorter because I will trim it down a lot and not go on a tangent about having been in the building that houses El Mercurio and other fun stuff like I did this time but it's impressive that I can just sit on my bed and talk for forty minutes straight knowing nobody is listening. And I recorded it all. Why? No idea. I think I feel pretty lame just sitting on my bed talking to myself and of course sitting on my bed with a mic is a lot better because this way it feels as if I've actually produced something. I listened to a podcast the other day where they were talking about the sense of accomplishment artists get compared to writers because artists have something they can show around when asked what they did and people can look at it and say they like it, with writers it's a lot harder because ... it is. And so I felt like I wouldn't be wasting so much of my time if I actually recorded that thing even though I know exactly that i won't ever listen to it again. Or maybe I will at some point and then I'll feel like posting one or two clips for V's enjoyment because she's probably the only one who will really understand what the heck I'm talking about.

I have uploaded the OLMV report to esnips and am considering posting it here to showcase my exaggeratedly empassioned opinion about The Second Hut and Silly's very naturally-sounding supposed opinion about Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies, an opinion she aquired when she read the script because I seriously doubt that she would have been able to extract that stuff from the story by herself which doesn't mean I don't love Silly, I just don't think literature is her strong suit just like I don't think feigning enthusiasm is her forte. Or writing more or less natural dialogue or coming up with original concepts to distinguish our recording from others. Or respecting punctuation. nah, I love her.

Kyle's story is getting out of control. I have written about 2k and not much has really happened with the exception of him showcasing his social awkwardness and geekiness but a plot will follow and an unexpected character has sneaked into the novel: Rob Liefeld, artist extraordinaire! Anna, Kyle's voice of reason, loves Rob Liefeld just like I love Rob Liefeld. he's just so bad that it's good. Yesterday I spent way too much time reading articles about Liefeld and laughing really, really hard at his art. One of my problems with art is that i don't seem able to really appreciate it. I can see if something is good or bad but I have to pay close attention to some of the stuff to notice just how fucked up Rob's art is and those articles really help and now I feel like reading Youngblood. There are several Liefeld drinking games but playing them is suicide. There was something in one article that I enjoyed a lot:

A fun Liefeld drinking game: take a shot for every pouch he draws on a character.  Oh great, now you have alcohol poisoning.

So yeah, Rob is in my novel now:

Anna has a sick fascination with Rob Liefeld, a phenomenon from the 90ies who made it big despite – or maybe because – his apparent inability to understand human anatomy or draw feet, his habit to add pouches upon pouches to  everything and his love for big guns – REALLY BIG GUNS. Nobody can really explain why Rob Liefeld was so popular in the 90ies, he just was and it’s more than slightly embarrassing for the medium as a whole but Anna insists on it being so bad that it’s good again.

And I don't plan to make the novel a Rob Liefeld bash-fest, he just came up. Maybe I should start working on adding a plot to the story now though. Later, when I've done more Spanish that is. But I want to throw Jun Bob Kim's name in there somewhere becuase I don't want to wait till November till I finally get to write about him. Maybe Kyle can walk into the shop when two customers are praising some Kev/Jun Bob colaboration. for universe-building purposes although I already managed to insert Maya into the story (Anna’s roommate sometimes helps out on busy weekends). the timeline is of course totally fucked up but that's how it's always been in my universe. So what if this is supposed to happen about 16 years after Letting Go and for some reason in Letting Go the same world-wide events are happening as in this story? It doesn't matter. Besides I can change Anna's roommate and just have it happen at the same time as Finding Me / Letting Go and have Janna come into the store or have Matt Hoover do a signing for some reason. Yub, that probably fits better. And in Letting Go I can mention Janna being friends with Anna or have her have a cameo without even mentioning her other connections. I love talking to myself about my timeline on my lj because this way I can spot problems better because I can't just say, "nobody will notice" and stop thinking about it.

back to work.

I have just noticed that I haven't seen a worrying number of my geek shirts lately and I'm worried about them which is why I feel the need to make a list so I can see which ones are in my closet and look for the others. I know I forgot some on the list. I'm thinking of a dark blue shirt in particular (not the Super Buddies one) but I can't think what's on it.


T-SHIRTS
- Hulk
- Wonder Woman insigmia
- Ditko Spider-Man
- Wolverine
- other Spider-Man
- Superman insigmia
- Batman insigmia
- Avengers
- Joker
- Wonder Woman
- Super Buddies
- Pebbles
- Jedi Academy
- Lost
- black JKG
- red JKG
- grey DSV
- white DSV
- DSV sweatshirt
- Harry Potter
- Hogwarts
- 4 Chiclete t-shirts
- Mickey Mouse
- Cambodia
- 4 Hard Rock t-shirts, 1 sweatshirt, 1 jeans jacket, 1 other
- Ampelmännchen
- DSV jacket
- Snoopy

UNDERWEAR
- Superman insigmia
- red Wonder Woman
- blue Wonder Woman


The only thing I've found so far are the red WW panties (and a questionable pair of panties with the Playboy logo on them that do so NOT belong to me).

Okay, I admit it, I've found quite a few of the items in question but not all of them and some might be dirty but I haven't worn many of them in ages so where the hell are they?
And I'm sure I didn't put quite a few things on the list. I will investigate. I have now decided that I'll do much better in my math exam tomorrow if I can dress in either the WW or Superman ensemble. Unfortunately, both parts of those are missing right now.

EDIT: Half an hour later and more items have been accounted for, among them the blue Snoopy shirt that might be the one I was thinking about but couldn't remember. And while I might have seen the missing WW shirt in the laundry and found the S-shield shirt, the underwear is still missing. I need to find either the Superman or the WW underwear (not the red one) for tomorrow, preferably the Superman one.

B

Oct. 28th, 2008 01:34 pm
Ich glaube nicht, dass jemand aus dem Spanischkurs soviel Spaß mit Ardiente Pacienca haben kann wie Vanessa und ich. Wir waren auf Isla Negra. Wenn Mario dort hinkommt, kann ich mir das Haus vorstellen. In der Szene mit dem Telegramm kann ich mir genau vorstellen, wo sie stehen könnten, vielleicht ohne zu dem Zeitpunkt zu wissen, dass er Jahre später mit dem Blick auf genau dieses Meer dort beerdigt werden würde. Ich bin motiviert genug, um die CDs mit den Bildern rauszuholen, um mir die nochmal anzuschauen, sollte ich sie denn sofort finden. Wenn das nciht fer Fall ist, lässt die Motivation nach.

Heute ist Bs 56. Geburtstag. Er hat AC heute vor 21 Jahren zum ersten Mal gesehen und jetzt weiß ich nicht, wie er es noch schafft, sie anzuschauen. Ich bin noch böse auf sie. Ich habe "Hate Me" von Blue October gehört und irgendwie hatte es heute mehr Wirkung auf mich als sonst (und das Lied hat immer eine Wirkung auf mich). Ich kann sie immer noch nicht wirklich anschauen ohne daran zu denken, dass ich ihr noch nicht verziehen habe. Gestern habe ich ihr gesagt ich brauche Zeit, doch sie besteht darauf, dass sie die nicht hat. Was will sie damit sagen? Nur, weil sie morgen weg ist?

Ich muss jetzt Life on Mars anschauen.

Tuzu

Oct. 23rd, 2008 07:30 pm
Ok, Tuzu ist süß. Wir haben gechattet und ich habe ihn gefragt, ob er es war, der mich betrogen hat und einfach nach Chile geflogen ist ohne mich vorher darüber zu informieren, auch wenn ich nciht dachte, dass er es war, weil er vor einer Weile in Buenos Aires war und als ich das richtig cool fand, hat er angeboten mit mir und Verônica über ein paar Tage dorthinzufliegen, wenn ihc mal wieder bei ihm bin.

Unterhaltung:

T: Ich würde dich nie betrügen. Pelinho war's.
N: Dann werd ich mit ihm schimpfen müssen. ich dachte schon, dass er es ist, weil du lieb bist und mir von Argentinien erzählt hast.
T: Schimpf ruhig. Wenn du kommst, richte ich es so ein, dass wir dorthin können oder wo anders hin. wie du willst


T: Ich versuch gerade zu arbeiten. Ich hab in fünf Minuten eine Besprechung und muss deswegen Schluss machen. Morgen komme ich wieder online, um zu chatten. ICh freu mich immer, enn du mir antwortest. Küsse, Tuzu
N: Küsse
T: Tschüß
N: Ich liebe dich.
T: Ich liebe dich mehr als du es dir vorstellen kannst. Zweifel nie an mir; du kannst immer auf deinen Onkel zählen.


Ich glaube nicht, dass ich ihm je gesagt habe, dass ich ihn liebe.


 

 




Alt, ich weiß, aber ich hab's grad zufällig gefunden und es hat mich zum Lachen gebracht, u.a. weil ich "An Inconvenient Truth" weder beim ersten, noch beim zweiten oder dritten Mal, dass ich ihn angeschaut habe, toll fand. Nichts, dass ich das Problem nciht sehe, aber ich hasse den Film.

Nachdem ich mich von meinem Gehirntod nach sieben Stunden Literatur erholt hatte, kam NaNo. Ich bin noch am heutigen Minimum, aber fast soweit (1500 Wörter genau). Ich hab angefangen die zweite Staffel von Heroes zu schauen und dazu fällt mir so einiges ein:
1. Legacy Virus
2. die letzte Folge der dritten Staffel von Lost (Nathan Petrelli = Jack Sheppard)
3. Hope
Ich glaube, dazu schreibe ich mal auf englisch, ich kann nicht auf deutsch über Heroes schreiben.
Ich hab noch nicht alle meine Comics für diese Woche gelesen, ich bin seit ich aus Chile gekommen bin noch nicht dazu gekommen, mich bei allem zu aktualisieren, es steht also noch viel Arbeit aus. Und ich will Booster Gold nicht lesen, weil die ersten beiden Ausgaben so gut waren, dass ich #3 und #4 nicht lesen will, um nicht so lange warten zu müssen.
Andere gute neue Serien (ich wechsle ins Englische):

Green Arrow & Black Canary: I am a fan of both characters and Canary just rocks with her fishnets, she is a hottie and Ollie is awesome. So, when I read the shocking conclusion to the Wedding Special, I was anxious to see how it continued. I've read the first issue of the title so far and I am liking how Winick is writing Dinah even though I am not much a fan of Winick's.

I'll continue at some point, not now, I need to write.

I finally got around to watching Firefly and like everything Joss Whedon comes up with, it's interesting, fresh and good. I think what I like best is the theme song which I am looking for right now.

NaNoWriMo starts in three hours. I won't be able to start at midnight because I'm going to some Halloween party and I hope that I can avoid seeing my sister there but I know that there is no way this could possibly happen. The cool thing is my poncho as I am finally allowed to wear it outside the house.

Today I came up with a great superheroine: Ponchowoman. When she puts on the poncho bought by a distant relative of hers in Chile decades ago, she is granted special powers (I don't know which). And just think about it, it's a great costume. She only has to pull the poncho over her regular clothes. No complicated maneuvers for changing into costume or getting off your clothes because you're wearing the costume underneath your regular clothes. I think it's great.

On Sunday or Monday evening I was talking to my dad about Russian names (don't mock the topic, it's quite interesting how they are constructed) and he said that every male name had a female form as well but couldn't come up with the female form of Ilya, so I told him it was Illyana.

But the statement that every male name had a female form made me wonder: What is the male form of Natalja or variant spellings? I could only think of Nathan and Nathaniel which both don't sound very Russian and it was Russian names we were talking about. After all, I love the fact that my name is Russian and I can therefore call myself Natasha (I know I'm crazy). My father finally told me it was Natali and I kept making fun of it and saying that it was ridiculous and a female name. He cited this boxer, Natali Klitschko and today I decided to look it up.

First off, the boxer's name is NOT Natalie but Vitali (not totally anglicized full name actually is Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko). And his brother whose name my father couldn't remember is Wladimir (Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko). I love the structure of Russian names. They all sound so cool once you manage to say them without butchering them. And even if you can't, it still looks cool.

Second, my Chilean family didn't make up the saint named Natalia, there really was one. She and her husband Aurelius died as Christian martyrs in 852 and are among the fifty-four Martyrs of Córdoba. She came from a background of mixed religion but because her father for a Muslim, she was legally required to profess Islam, but she (along with her husband, her brother-in-law and her sister-in-law) practiced Christianism in secret. They were somehow found out about and executed. Saint Aurelius and Saint Natalia's feast day is on July 27th, so my Chilean family really didn't make that up.

But my main interest was to find out the male form of my name. Here is what I found on Think Baby Names :

[Female Symbol] Natalie - Name Meaning and Origin
A boy's and girl's name Nathalie \n(a)-ta-lie\ is pronounced NAT-a-lee. It is of Latin origin and its meaning is "birthday". Refers to birthday of Christ, or Christmas. There was a forth-century Saint Natalia. The "h" is silent in the French form Nathalie; some American variants (like Nathalee) are phonetically spelled to retain the "h" sound.
Natalie has 29 variant forms: Nat, Nata, Natala, Natalee, Natalene, Natalia, Natalja, Natalina, Nataline, Nataly, Nataliya, Natalya, Natasha, Natelie, Nately, Nathalee, Nathalia, Nathalie, Nathaliely, Nathalija, Nathaly, Natilie, Natividad, Nattilie, Nattie, Nettie, Talia, Talya, Tasha.
Natalie is a very popular female first name and an uncommon surname (source: 1990 US Census).

[Female Symbol] Natalia - Name Meaning and Origin
The girl's name Natalia \n(a)-ta-lia\ is a variant of Natalie. See also Talia.
The name Natalia sounds like Nathalia, Natalya, Nataliya, Natalja and Natala. Other similar names are Natavia, Natalina, Natasia, Natania.

[Female Symbol] Natasha - Name Meaning and Origin
The girl's name Natasha \n(a)-ta-sha\ is pronounced na-TAH-shah. It is of Russian origin. Variant of Natalie. See also Tasha.
Natasha has 9 variant forms: Nastaliya, Nastalya, Natacha, Natascha, Natashenka, Natashia, Natasia, Natosha and Natucha.

[Female Symbol] Talia - Name Meaning and Origin
The girl's name Talia \t(a)-lia\ is pronounced TAL-yah. It is of Hebrew and Aramaic origin, and its meaning is "heaven's dew; lamb". Variant of Taliah. Talia is also a short form of Natalia.
Talia has 3 variant forms: Tahlia, Taliah and Talya.
For more information, see also related names Talisa, Tally, Natalie and Thalia.
Names that sound like Talia are Dalia, Talea, Tallia, Talie, Tali and Tulia.



And that's not everything. I also found out about Natalia Rebublic, a former republic in South Africa. The capital was Pietermaritzburg and its official languages English, Dutch and Sulu. I think that's cool

Unlike me, my sister is an avid reader. She says she has read about a dozen books in her life – an admirable quantity. So, a few months back, before going to Chile, I was listening to an episode of Poptopia where Paul French mentioned that Josh Schwartz, creator of The OC, one of my sister’s favorite TV shows, would be the executive producer of a new TV series based on a series of books called “Gossip Girl” and I was like, “No way! My sister has read all of the books that have come of these.” So, I told her and recently, when I finally discovered that it had actually started getting aired, I was enlisted to download the episodes for her. Yesterday, we watched the first one, today, she came to my room while I was reading Green Lantern and asked if I had time for her because she wanted to watch the second episode. So we laid in bed in front of my computer and watched the second episode that I had downloaded a few days before. Now she is totally curious to know how it will continue although there doesn’t seem to be one thing about it she wholly agreed with.

She doesn’t like the looks of characters, the exclusion of some, the way some things were changed. What made me happy about that though, was the fact that that proves how she can be a geek as well although her geekishness is focused on other areas. It’s like, no matter how good something is, a geek always finds stuff to complain about.

Me, not knowing the books, thought it was pretty okay. The characters don’t dress like normal teenagers, their style is VERY odd, but that is coming from me who thinks that there is nothing as comfortable as TCM bras, jeans and a simple tee or hoodie, nothing too complicated, nothing pink, nothing uncomfortable, nothing with laces and no strange hairstyles. Ponytails and my hair let down, and a messy knot / bun are the only hairstyles I think are really necessary. I am a simple person. And these rich upper East Side kids think VERY differently.

The characters are a bit too cliché, there is this young sick brother of one of the main characters, Serena, and when my sister and I first saw him, our reactions were “Draco” and “Tom Felton” respectively. Well, turns out we were wrong, but the guy looks a lot like Tom Felton.

The cell phones get on my nerve because you see every character using their cell phones at least once each episode. Especially in the first one, it was extremely overdone. There was this party and suddenly everyone attending the party pulls their cell phones out at the same time. And I thought the Chileans were obsessed with their cell phones.

Right now, I am watching Teen Titans. The first episode of the series. It’s almost done and not too complicated, but it’s cute and enjoyable. I still am a kid at heart and this is just cute. Who wouldn’t fall for a cute, nice Starfire saying, “I wish to initiate a group hug.” That is just too cute!

I still have many TV series to catch up to. I was so busy that I didn’t even watch the third season of Doctor Who yet. And there are still a few episodes of the last season of Desperate Housewives left, not to mention Heroes. But I’ll do it one by one. I have lots of time to distract myself till February when I will only be talking about Lost.

The second episode of Teen Titans is even cuter. The first ninety seconds have Dick and Kory sitting in a giant wheel talking with her being astonished about how the cotton candy vanishes in her mouth because the last time she ate cotton, it was white and didn’t taste very good. Kory’s naivety is sooo cute. I love it in the normal Teen Titans and here it’s cool, too. And Raven is fun, too, being the total opposite of Kory. “A giant chicken? I must be the luckiest girl in the world.”

“Come, friends, I shall thank you for my rescue by reciting the poem of gratitude – all 6000 verses.” Starfire is soooo cute. And her sister is hitting on Robin, it’s so funny how Starfire gets jealous and suddenly everyone is totally interested in her because she knows how to react to every team member. And I just feel so sorry for Kory because she is such a nice girl. She is just such a nice, funny character and her sister is such a bitch. In the end, everyone will notice how much they prefer Starfire and everything will be okay, but it’s nice to see how the story progresses. I don’t know if Starfire has a sister in the comics, but it doesn’t matter. It’s just a nice, cool show for kids … and others.

kid: “Hey, sweety, digging the scene?”
Kory: “I didn’t know we were supposed to bring shovels.”

Robin is the first to realize that Starfire is a lot cooler than her sister and it’s such a romantic little scene where they are sitting on the roof talking and Blackfire shows up wanting to know how she looks. “Pink”, Robin answers very  stoically and wants her to go away as he is having a moment with Kory but she just takes his hand and drags him away, leaving poor Kory behind. I like how they have all these hints at Dick and Kory’s relationship in the comics in an innocent way.

“Goodbye, sister. Although you betrayed and attacked me, it was still very nice to see you.” That is so cute. Teen Titans are so, so, so cute!!

I like Robin and Kory in particular. But I would like to see other Titans, not just these five. What about Roy Harper / Speedy and Donna Troy / Wonder Girl? It would be cool to add them to the mix.

And as NaNo comes closer (still 17 days to go), I keep remembering more and more forgotten plots for storylines for that anthology I created the outline of my NaNo for originally. The one that returned to me right now is a quite interesting one in my opinion although I’m not sure how I would handle it nowadays. It’s a pretty mature theme for a fourteen year old girl to come up with, honestly. It’s not the biggest idea of the century, but just a story about two characters. Yes, another character piece like everything or almost everything I write.

"Der Prozess" by Franz Kafka [The Trial]
We have a copy at home and I already read it once, but as so often, neither me nor my father remembers where it could be and I will be needing it for school at some point this or next year, so I'm getting it now while I'm ordering. I don't recall much of the plot for some reason and I don't remember when exactly I read it, but I'm almost totally sure that I read it at some point. And I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it, so as I'll be reading it in class, I'd like to re-read it before like I always do. Yes, I have strange habits when it comes to reading and school, but I partially blame my family for it.

"Die Verwandlung" by Franz Kafka [The Metamorphosis]
Upon mentioning to my parents that I would be reading Kafka at school, my father got up from the table, ran down the stairs to his office and came back with "Das Schloss" [The Castle] saying that I needed to read that and "Die Verwandlung" which he knows he had at some point but it was a very old softcover and he threw it out when we moved, so he and AC kept telling me that when ordering books, I HAD TO get this one. She went as far as to try and get me to read it in Portuguese but I am not reading a book that was originally written in German in Portuguese, especially not because I'm not a huge fan of the Portuguese language and the only real book I ever read was bullshit.

"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
A few years ago I read "Much Ado 'Bout Nothing" and found it quite enjoyable and very entertaining that even back then I felt more comfortable reading it in English than in German. For some very odd reason, I understood less of the story when reading it in German, something I haven't figured out till today, but I guess I'll never figure it out. Talking to Bernd Müller, my spiritual leader in all things literature, we got into a conversation about books and he ranked the world's three greatest poets: #1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; #2 William Shakespeare; #3 Friedrich Schiller. He asked me if I had ever read any of Shakespeare's dramas and when I denied, he recomended Macbeth.

"I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League" / "Formerly Known As The Justice League" by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire
Something light and fun for a change. A trade with fun characters, many good laughs, cool art ... Well, compared to the rest of the list that only contains pretty heavy-loaded books as well as JRRT's masterwork that my father describes as "entertaining" but not a great piece of literature... Anyway, I always wanted to read these two stories, so I figured: Why not now?


"Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit" by Gabriel García Márquez [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
My mother, my aunt and my dad agree on something for once: This is the best book that has been written in the twentieth century. I saw it at a little stand in Olmue and remembered how the three of them praised it individually and bought it. I read it and thought it was okay, but not spectacular, except for the end maybe. Herr Krizan told me to give it another shot or two, and so it became the book I'm presenting in Literature class. I looked at it in my dad's office but didn't find it because everytime he buys it, he ends up giving it to someone for them to read and so he doesn't have a copy, so I have to order it. Maybe a decent copy instead of the one I bought adds to the books and I'm reading it in German and was told by quite a few people that the German translation is very, very good.

"Michael Kohlhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist
There are some things my parents agree on, one of them being that you should own the books you read, even if they are books you're going to read at school where most of them are provided and you seldom have to buy them yourself. But well, my father considers "Kohlhaas" a book worth having and was about to spoil the whole plot, so it's on my list (and because it was a cheap softcover). Another book I can read before we actually read it at school because as I figured out some time ago I'm not able to read a book strictly for school.

"Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" by Bertholt Brecht [Mother Courage and her Children]
Having read this book at school and this being one of the very first plays he saw, my father developped a special affinity for this book and although he likes the book by Brecht we are reading at school, he thinks we should be reading "Mutter Courage" instead. He talked about it so passionately and for once he didn't spill half of the plot like he tends to when talking about a book he enjoyed reading which means that he enjoyed it very, very, very much and even though I don't always enjoy the books he is completely passionate about, there are some I love, too. So, I'll read this one as well although my reading pile is growing larger and larger, probably because my father added many books to it, some of them being in a pile in my room, some I'm to get.

"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
I have the whole story in a hardcover on one of my over-filled shelves but it's in German and if I'm going to give it a second try and (re-)read it, it will have to be in English, not only because I think that most books that are hard to read in German are more readable in English.

Ich hatte einen ganzen Eintrag und mein Computer ist abgestürzt. Grrrr... Ja, ich gebe es zu, ich bin nicht ganz unschuldig, ich habe es als ich meine Sitzposition geändert habe irgendwie geschafft das Netzwerkkabel ein wenig zu lockern und ich habe meinen Akku nie im Laptop, wenn ich ihn zu Hause benutze.

Also darf ich den Eintrag  nochmal schreiben, wahrscheinlich wird der Inhalt sich stark vom vorigen unterscheiden, aber das ist egal. Nicht ganz so gut ist, dass ich jetzt eigentlich meine sieben Spanischbücher einbinden wollte. Leider habt Frau Jakab nicht "En Espana" (aka "El Espanol Vivo" wie Frau Schwarz es so gern genannt hat), mein absolutes Lieblingsspanischbuch  nicht ausgeteilt.

Spanisch war ein bisschen merkwürdig, ich fand es unglaublich irritierend, dass Frau Jakab so langsam und deutlich spricht. Wenn sie jetzt noch in einem monotonen Tonfall reden würde, könnte sie Dario Konkurrenz machen. Ich weiß nicht, ob es an mir lag, dass ich die ganze Zeit fand, dass sie zu langsam und deutlich redet, es kann auch sein, dass es wegen meiner Zeit in Chile ist, denn die Chilenen sprechen nicht sonderlich deutlich und in normaler Geschwindigkeit. Eher schneller. In Danis Fall viel, viel schneller. Und an das habe ich mich eben gewöhnt.

Trotzdem halte ich Frau Jakab, die wieder Details aus ihrem Privatleben zur Öffentlichkeit gegeben hat, für eine sehr kompetente und sympathische Lehrerin. Sie hat gleich einen Plan mit dem Stoff der nächsten zwei Jahre ausgeteilt und wir nehmen ein Land in Südamerika durch, mit größter Wahrscheinlichkeit Chile, was mich natürlich sehr freut. Sie hat mich auch gleich am Anfang der Stunde gefragt, ob ich gut Heim gekommen bin, wobei sie mich mit "Johanna o Nathalia" angesprochen hat. Vanessa und ich sollen nächsten Donnerstag ein bisschen was über Chile erzählen; das kann man ja problemlos aus dem Stand aus machen.

Sie hat sich auch unglaublich über die "minoría masculina" gefreut. War ähnlich wie an dem Tag in CAE, an dem außer Benjamin Wieland kein einziger Junge da war.

Englisch bei Bier ... Silly hat gemeint, dass es nicht so schlimm war, ich bin da anderer Meinung. Wir haben alberne Spiele gespielt. Wir mussten eine möglichst lange Liste von Leuten aufstellen, die braune Augen, einen zweiten Vornamen oder den selben Namen wie ein Verwandter  haben und die Linkshänder, außerhalb von Baden Württemberg geboren oder Hundebesitzer sind. Das ist eine Aufgabe für Fünft- meinetwegen sogar Sechstklässler, aber nicht für Klasse 12!!

Die Gruppenarbeit, die dieser schweren Aufgabe folgte, bestand darin, dass er jeder Gruppe ein weißes Blatt Papier gegeben hat und wir aufschreiben mussten, was man mit diesem Blatt machen kann, von schreiben und malen abgesehen. Wir mussten dann eine dieser Sachen vorstellen.

Die nächste Aufgabe war dann eine etwas anspruchsvollere, worauf Bier uns auch aufmerksam gemacht hat.
Jede Gruppe hat einen Zettel mit einem What-If Satz bekommen (What if the President of the US was a 10-year-old girl). Wir mussten aufschreiben, was dann wäre. Also eine weitere Liste schwachsinniger Dinge.

Das vorletzte Spielchen der Stunde bestand darin, dass wir 50$ hatten und von einer Liste aussuchen mussten, was wir uns damit kaufen würden, was wir dann den anderen in unserer Gruppe erklären sollten.

Zum Abschluss der Stunde hat Herr Bier dann was vorgelesen, das wir machen mussten.
Beispiele: „If you’re wearing black, sit down“, „if you have brown hair, wave“, „if you’re wearing a ring, stand up” …

In Englisch müssen wir unter anderem einen book report machen. Ich habe mein Buch schon ausgesucht: „East of Eden“ von John Steinbeck. Das hatte ich ja letztes Jahr in Deutsch vorstellen sollten, was nicht möglich war, weil ich davor nach Chile geflogen bin. Also kann ich es dieses Jahr in Englisch nachholen. Das Buch ist gut, ich kenne es gut und ich mag es einfach. Ich habe Herr Bier gleich gefragt, ob ich „East of Eden“ machen kann und er hat mich verwirrt angeschaut und gesagt, dass das ein Film ist.

Ich sehe ein, dass es Leute gibt, die das Buch nicht kennen, aber es ist Weltliteratur, John Steinbeck wurde für sein Werk mit einem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet und als Englischlehrer muss man dieses Buch wirklich kennen und gelesen haben.

Als ich ihn darüber aufgeklärt habe, dass ich ein Buch meine und dass der Film gerademal den dritten Teil des Buches abdeckt, hat er gemeint, dass ich ja trotzdem einen Ausschnitt aus dem Film zeigen könnte. Ich habe darauf bestanden, dass der Film nicht mit dem Buch in Verbindung zu bringen ist, woraufhin er vorgeschlagen hat, dass ich ja das erwähnen könnte …

BK.
Ich weiß gar nicht, was ich sagen soll. Ich hatte mit einem weiteren Jahr bei Herr John gerechnet, diesmal ganz ohne Ali und Silly, die mir helfen können. Herr John hat uns aber gleich erklärt, dass er aus Gesundheitsgründen nicht unterrichten darf und dass ein Herr Laun (?), einen Künstler und industriellen Designer, uns übernehmen würde, mit größter Wahrscheinlichkeit das ganze Jahr. Und dann geht Herr John in Rente.

John ist dann mit uns den Stoff, den Frau Mannsfeld vorher für den Neigungsfach an die Tafel geschrieben hatte,  durchgegangen, ist dann gegangen und hat uns mit Herr Laun alleine gelassen, der von sich selbst erzählt hat und uns Vorschläge gemacht hat, was wir dieses Jahr machen könnten, wobei keiner der Vorschläge auch nur ansatzweise etwas mit dem zu tun hatte, den Herr John uns zuvor vorgestellt hatte (Anmerkung: Laun saß dabei). Er sieht auch nicht ein, warum alle das Selbe machen sollten. Er gibt keine Aufgaben. Er will uns allen beibringen Logos zu designen und hat auch gesagt, dass er uns gerne zeigen würde, wie man gute Graffitis macht, denn er ist der Meinung, dass die allermeisten Graffitis die „Wand vergewaltigen“ (seine Worte).

Sein Ziel ist es, uns etwas beizubringen, was uns interessiert und weil es unmöglich ist, dass alle sich für das Selbe interessieren, machen wir mehrere Sachen gleichzeitig. Er hat z.B. Stefan gefragt, was er später mal machen möchte und Stefan hat gemeint, er würde gerne schreiben, vielleicht als Journalist oder so. Herr Laun hat dann ein paar Vorschläge gemacht, was man da machen könnte. Etwas aus einer selbstgeschrieben Kurzgeschichte visuell darstellen. Das hört sich für mich hervorragend an, auch wenn ich keine Ahnung habe, wie er es dann visualisiert haben möchte. Ich glaube, da würde er aber auch ziemlich viel Freiheit lassen, wie in allem.

Sein zweiter Vorschlag war Aussagen aus der Zeitung rauszuholen und so zusammensetzen, dass sich der Sinn verändert, wobei man dann nur mit bereits existierendem Material arbeiten dürfte. Er hat damit bereits Erfahrung, denn wie er uns erzählt hat wurde er wegen eines solchen Kunstwerk einmal angeklagt und musste vor Gericht. Sie konnten aber nichts gegen ihn tun, weil er ja selber nichts davon geschrieben hat, sondern die Zeitung. Ich wette, das ist bisher keinem einzigen BK-Lehrer an unserer Schule passiert.

Er hält auch nichts von Klausuren und Noten (dass es Punkte gibt, weiß er gar nicht), aber er hat Herr John gefragt und er muss Klausuren schreiben. Was die Noten betrifft, so gibt es laut ihm nur sehr gut, gut und befriedigend. Ausreichend gibt es nur, wenn man sich überhaupt nicht beteiligt, was glaube ich nicht so ein Problem ist, wenn er sich Vorschläge gibt, die Interessen entsprechen.

Ich bin der Meinung, dass BK so sein sollte und nicht so, wie es sonst immer ist. Da bekommt man eine Aufgabe wie zeichne mit Tusche ein Schildbürgerhaus oder male mit Wasserfarben Luftballons in rot, blau und gelb, die sich möglichst oft überschneiden, wobei Mischfarben entstehen sollen. BK könnte zum ersten Mal richtig cool sein!

Also Ali, sicher, dass du es nicht bereust zu Abu-Ghosh gewechselt zu haben?

Mein rechtes Auge ist irgendwie komisch entzündet. Es ist rot und tränt und ist unglaublich sensibel. Keine Ahnung, was das ist, aber ich benutze jetzt Augentropfen und hoffe, dass es bald weggeht, denn es ist nicht sehr angenehm.

(danke an Ale, Anna, Krissie und Niklas fürs Aufschreiben)

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