Hey people, I don't really got much to write about besides to tell you guys that we are still alive over here at WCXP. We've been kinda busy, and since spring break is rolling around we are currently getting ready for/doing mid-terms and other fun college related things. Hopefully we'll start being able to update more often, but until that time you'll just have to hang in there. Nothing new has happened really, except for Hunter and I spending inordinate amounts of money on new Airsoft guns. Well, since I'm here I might as well try to write something worth while.
Oh Hawaiian, both Hunter and I have a Hawaiian Studies test on Friday. The tests for this class are pretty bogus, they consist of a huge memorization section, followed by the most stupidly detailed matching section I've ever had the misfortune to experience. I mean, we are getting asked who
Our word bank is a 3x5 index card front & back, where we can put pretty much anything we wanted (or so we thought). I thought everything was gonna be a-okay for this next exam, little did I know what kumu Kimo had in store for us. I guess he felt obligated to tack on a few more rules, so then it became a word bank that we could have no definitions on. What? That's a little weird, since the original reason that he let us have it was people were having such a hard time on the matching section. How is a word bank without definitions going to help us with matching people/words to their meanings? That's okay though, we still will be able to use it on the memorization section. Even with just that the word bank will save us a good 4-5 hours of memorization time. He decides also to say that all the spelling has to be correct (including okinas and stuff) in order for him to let us use the word bank. Seems stupid, since our misspellings will only hurt us, but whatever. The icing on the cake though is this little gem of a rule. We HAVE to turn the card in the class period before the test, and then kumu Kimo will go over it and let us know the day of the test if we can use it or not. We can't turn it in early, and we have no way of finding out if we can use it until the class of the test. Kumu Kimo tells us to "Plan accordingly". Why let us use the word bank if we are supposed to memorize the whole thing before hand, since we won't know for sure if we can use the word bank till the day of the test.
Whatever though, right? I mean we still get to try to make a word bank that can probably help us, as long we are careful with our spellings. The day before the word bank is due he tells us a new rule. No english words. Wow, thats great, we can't use any english words for our word bank. Seeing as how no one in our class (as far as I know) can speak Hawaiian, and we can't have any definitions on our cards, seems like kumu Kimo is just trying to make this just as hard as possible. Oh well though, in the end he is still letting us basically cheat on a test. Although if he wants to limit it to the point where we can not use it, why even let us have it?
That's my rant for tonight, I'm going to sleep. Catch you folks later. Oh I don't know anything about WCXP's prestigious Mormon branch, so I can not tell you when it will make another quality post.
3 Comments:
Hali'a + Kamaha'ina = 800 generations
By piro, at 3/17/2005 10:49:28 PM
La'aniha you shitty spellchecker
By Xerxes, at 3/18/2005 12:48:31 PM
b&
By piro, at 3/21/2005 10:54:38 AM
