Today's Campus

Hola. This time I'm not going to recommend any song, let's just share what I've been through today, how was campus and that and that. Only one of three courses that happened today. Early in the morning, we talked about translating in the Translating Literary Works class. The only reason that I'm always interested in translating class is that I used to dream to be a novel translator, like Ibu Listiana Srisanti :)

We discussed about issues in translating, not only literary works, but all kinds of works. About translating particular terms. That we indeed need to consult an expert in the field of which work we're translating is about to make sure of the specific meaning of the terms that make us doubt. And the issue of translating jokes. I totally agree with this. There are words that when they are translated they cannot be as funny as the original ones. That's why I don't really like to watch a movie that has been dubbed.

Second course was supposed to be Critical Analysis of Poetry, but the lecturer hadn't come to the class yet since the semester started. It was unfortunate because I have always been waiting to attend poetry class. Not that I'm obsessed with poetry, though I did ever like poetry once. When I was a first grader in senior high school, in a Vocational English class, I was asked to read a poem in front of the class room and after I finished, the teacher praised me and all other students applauded. I still remember the poem I read at the moment, it was Tears, Idle Tears by Lord Alfred Tennyson. What a memory :)

Now, I don't hate poetry but I don't love it either. Now, I would never ever ever try to read poems in front of anyone. I always think of a poem as something brilliant and that never makes me feel confident enough to make one or read it loudly like I did in high school. A confidence problem that I haven't solved :(

Then, what I actually like from poetry class is that it is the only class where my name is so popular. Where rhyme and rhythm take important roles. I really love it. I just can't wait to count how many rhyme and rhythm mentioned in the course's source book and highlight them again. Unhappily, I haven't got any new poetry text books yet. But that's okay, we can still hope for next week :)

Last course was supposed to be Exploring Prose, I'm still upset that I still don't know why I got D for this course last year so it forced me to retake the course this semester. And even I'm not certain about taking it this semester, because its schedule gets clashed with another course I'm taking. At first, there was no clash, that's why I took the course and then there was this change of schedule when I was already done with that study plan form thing. Now I just have to find a way. Pfft.

And last thing, I was fasting today. It was nice to see my belly become so flat... haha...