well...i've made a decision. i'm not going to take vietnamese next quarter. it's just causing me way too much grief. it's not even that the class is very difficult; it's just frustrating. i am seriously the worst student in the class and i am NOT exaggerating. i just cannot speak the language at all. and it's too hard to learn when EVERYONE else in the class already knows. i'm really not learning very much in the class. i mean, it's so obvious to me that the class is so unstructured since i can easily compare my vietnamese class with my italian class. although i suppose it's because italian's been around longer than vietnamese so there's already a set structure while vietnamese was just created a few years ago. but still. the class is just not very good. i definitely feel like i don't belong in that class. which is disappointing because i thought this would help me out, but it hasn't much.

the only thing that makes me not want to stop taking vietnamese is my parents. sanaz pointed out that they didn't expect me to take the class anyway, but still. i don't want to disappoint them. maybe i can teach myself from the book during the summer? that's sort of a long shot. summer tends to turn me into a vegetable. =| well...the only good thing about this is that i can take one of my core upper div psych classes now. if i was going to sign up for vietnamese again, both classes would have conflicted. but this way, i can start taking my upper div psych classes sooner. and besides, vietnamese was an empty credit class anyway. the irony in this whole thing is that vietnamese was supposed to be my "fun" class. hah. irony sucks. (mr. play-it-safe was afraid to fly. he packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye. he waited his whole damn life to take that flight and, as the plane crashed down, he thought, "well isn't this nice?" and isn't it ironic? don't you think?)

well, in other news: i have the honor of being the very first person to call melissa a bitch. ;D amazingly enough, NO ONE has ever called melissa a bitch before; not even jokingly. i called her a bitch for the very first time tonight while i was hanging out at her place. i just find that unbelievable. not that melissa is the type to get called that very much because she's not. it's just...weird. anyway, i called her a bitch a few more times today. ;D

all right, figure skating's on now. bye!!