oh, it does work. well, i still hate my life. i hate vietnamese. i know i hate physics, but i'd rather be studying for physics right now. i don't understand anything in vietnamese. this is frustrating me like nothing else has frustrated me before. i can memorize the words but i don't know how to form sentences. the teacher is going way too fast. we're supposed to write an essay for this test. let me remind you that i am in a BEGINNER'S vietnamese class - for people with NO BACKGROUND in vietnamese. we didn't even do this in italian. i am so overwhelmed. we're on lesson 2 right now, but she's just like, "hey, let's take part of lesson 9 and 10 and call it lesson 2." well, okay, she didn't really say that, but that's seriously what she's doing. it's not fair. everyone in that class knows how to speak vietnamese which is why she's going so fast. i just want to blow my brains out right now.