The End, Almost

So it's not quite over yet, but almost. I got an email today from my mom saying that she was able to change my flight to the 27th. That's next Wednesday. And it didn't cost anything because we bought my ticket with frequent flier miles. Sweet, eh? One thing that has changed in my English this summer is the use of tag questions. I use them a lot more now.

OK I'm happy to be going home but it will be a little sad because I love Germany. But, I'm ready to leave. I'll say good bye to everyone at institute on Tuesday.

I still have a few things to finish up. I have to finish the study I've been working on. I have to cut some more sound files, create a background questionnaire, and then also an answer sheet for the actual test administration. The scary thing is that I could seriously screw something up or totally forget to do it and ruin my whole project which is actually part of a larger project within the college of humanities. So, I'm feeling a little pressure. And I have to print all of the aforementioned papers out along with the informed consent form. Last time I tried to print something, it didn't work out too well. I'll have to ask my TA how to do it.

Then I have to find at least 10 native speakers to actually take the test. I figure it's gonna take about an hour. Tomorrow at institute I'll announce it and ask for volunteers. I'm hoping to be bale to use the Outreach Center on Saturday. That would be the easiest, I think. Just come to Stuttgart and meet people there. Everyone knows where it is. I need to make some sort of sign up sheet for that. Hm, more printing.

OK, so when I say I have a few sound files to cut I mean I have 50 sentences from 17 people. But I can do it relatively fast once I get into it. Good old Praat.

I've been thinking about it, and I'm not too hot on the idea of grad school. At least not yet. And I also don't like the idea of having a degree that I have to do something extra for just to be able to get a job. So I think I might change my major yet again, back to the German teaching major. That will be my 4th major. I want to teach and now that I'm actually older than high schoolers, they don't bother me as much because when I think they're immature, it's because I'm older. Anyway, so I think I might change back to the teaching major and teach for a few years and then go to grad school. The only thing I don't like about this, is that I'll be stuck in Utah for like 2 more years. And it will have taken me 6 years to finish college. Nice. Not.

Oh, and I have to have a minor. So it looks like I get to take a lot more French. I need to change my attitude because not liking the language makes it almost impossible to learn it.

But anyway, I have to go to bed. My class is going to Stuttgart tomorrow to go to the Klett Verlag. I won't buy anything because I don't need to come up with stuff for my class. Then we're going to the radio thing. Antenne 1. It's a good station, I like it. But, I hope it gets canceled so we are finished earlier and I can go get a doener at Bad Canstatt.