Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 58

Happy Sunday! Going into the last afternoon of the break before three full straight weeks of classes. We’re in school until December 23, but that last day is a half day when the majority of the day is the teachers vs. students in our annual volleyball tournament, so it’s not even that bad. I’m looking forward to this December — I managed to finagle the content schedules so that French II & IIII are watching media from December 5-December 19 — and only French I is still finishing up a unit that second week. It’s going to be a much more laid back month than normal.

The Praxis went okay yesterday — I feel better about the writing than I did the last time, and slightly better about the speaking. These are my weakest areas because I still rely on doing a lot of preparation and the spontaneous creation of the language is more challenging when you can use notes or resources. I scored like 4/18 on both those sections last time, but this time I made the word count on the writing without issues, and while I don’t know if the writing was as complex as they wanted, I was able to get my point across a lot more confidently. The speaking section, I also got 4/18 last time and I *think* I did better on the first two tasks than last time.

That being said, I’m still expecting to miss the 162 score by a few points. You only get 20 seconds to read the questions on the listening section, and I missed answering 2-3 questions because I was rereading the choices and lost track of the timer which I don’t remember doing the last time. Still — progress. And I can get away with failing it again because the state just needs to see that I’m trying to finish the certification because French teachers are like unicorns. We don’t really exist, lol.

ANYWAY.

December starts tomorrow, and it’s going to be great to be able to come home and not feel like I have to do a ton of work at night! I have so many plans for this month, writing wise. Let’s hope I can make it work. So far, I’ve nailed every day of Flash, even when I was tired. I’m trying to rebuild my writing stamina so I can write 1-2 hours every day 🙂

See you tomorrow! It’s a grocery run day, so I’ll be updating closer to 6 or 7.