Maxime

I'm sick...that's right...I'm sick and graduation is a week from tomorrow! At least it's not tomorrow and I have the week to get better. I do have my folks coming in a week from today so I have to get better fast. Tomorrow is my last meeting with Bob, my professor who sponsored my photo work this quarter. We'll be discussing the credits I'll be awarded and most likely it'll be me evaluation conference with him too. I've been going to the writing center a lot recently to make sure the essays I've been writing, as well as more recently my self evaluations, are coherent and ready for final print. These folks are amazing and I've really seen my writing skills improve tremendously over the course of the quarter. They have you read your paper and look for any mistakes you can identify yourself, and then they comment on places you can edit your work. I think one of the greatest pieces of advice that they've given me, especially when working on evaluations, is that they ask me if I've gotten to the heart of what I've learned. The best part of all? I don't have to worry about paying them because the school takes care of that. Last night I went to a potluck for all the foreign languages at Evergreen. Since it was a potluck, there was a ton of food that represented each of the languages, and it all tasted amazing. Seeing as how I was sick, I went only to make an appearance and got to have a quick chat with my professor Judy, who handed me back the rest of my work that I had turned in. She is one of my favorite people here because she is so supportive of all her students and truly does want each and everyone of them to succeed. She told me how much she thought my French had approved over the course of the quarter, and then discussed what our summer plans were. Her husband is French and they go to France for a couple months every summer, and considering I'll be in France in July, I told her that we should keep in contact and maybe meet up. Get to hang out with a professor in a foreign country? No way? At Evergreen...YES WAY!

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN BEGINS...

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So Thursday was the last day of class for me as an undergraduate college student! I can't believe that I am done...well almost. I still have some printing to do, as well as another essay. I can't believe how fast these four years have gone here at Evergreen. So what's the next step? Well graduation which is on June 13th. That's one thing that's super exciting and being there with all my friends and family will be so much fun. On Thursday, on my last day of class, I turned in all my writing assignments that I was responsible for doing throughout the quarter. Since it was a film class, I was required to write a journal entry on every movie that I watched. I wrote about movies like Forrest Gump, American Beauty, and Dumb and Dumber. I think American Beauty is one of my favorite movies, just the play on so many American beliefs and struggles. I thought the way the fail of one's marriage laced in between their daughter's difficult high school years was so well done. Using my French dictionary and the the types of conversations that came up in class throughout the quarter helped me explain what I got out of the different films. I think the type of film that we covered that was most difficult for me to talk about was new wave cinema. This new approach to film from director Jean-Luc Godard, who made it famous, completely changed the way both France and other countries from around the world approached making movies. Movies are good, I like movies, so I was really glad I took this class so that I had the opportunity to work on my French grammar and speaking skills through something other than a textbook.

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