I had a huge week occupied mainly by the english oral commentary and then tok final submission and on friday - nearly the whole day for 'chinese at UQ'. The english oral wasn't too bad, according to the subtle (or unsubtle) hints Ms Townend gave me on how I did that day. I remember going in but unready to talk. Fortunately Ms Alcorn and Townend were my examiners and after coming in from their lunch break, were not in the mood to pressurize me. I think we chatted before and after I delivered, for probably equivalent to the amount of time I spoke for ;D I was quite fortunate in getting the extract I prepped most for - The Not So Good Earth by Bruce Dawe. I remember a few people getting random Poe extracts and didn't do too well. Hardly anyone picked up a Much Ado extract. I wonder how the other half of the cohort will do on Monday and Tuesday next week haha. Im so glad mine is done. After that was immediately Tok, which was so horrible I think Im going to fail. I hope I can do something to make up for all those essay marks, like doing a better attempt at the Tok presentations next term and also EE to get me my 2-3 bonus marks. On friday we had the dpi and fisheries annual talk thing and also the revolutionary science day...this year 500 students from other schools came over so it was apparently a bit hectic haha. I was away with most of other year 11 and 12 Mandarin students at UQ from 10:35 to 2:35 for the "taste of Chinese in University" little program. The first session for the background speakers' group was extremely boring, on the history of Chinese characters. Then we had a short break and they provided buns and fortune cookies. My fortunes were ridiculous haha. The second session was about Chinese-English translations, the mistranslated examples were hilarious. The other schools which took part were Churchie, St Pauls and some other school. We had the largest number of students participating (and probably largest number of Chinese students). In total, about 20-30 students from QA participated while there were less than 10 from each of the other schools. I think in the background speakers' group we didn't really interact much while the other 2 groups did fun activities and won chopsticks. It was partly a waste of time because we weren't learning anything but gave me a better insight into the UQ Chinese course. Who knows maybe I'll end up doing a double degree in Business and Chinese translation. HAHA.