FOF: French Oral Fail

This morning I had my first Exam thing: My French oral.  


Not to be arrogant, but I'm a generally good French student, and I love the subject/language, so sometimes you'll just find me spewing about in French.  So as the seconds got closer to the time when I was supposed to go in, the floors of the hallway began to tilt slightly, and turn a darker shade of yellow, and suddenly the A.C. sounded like a monster breathing down my neck, the sounds of my fellow peers doing their exam wafting down the corridor surrounding my head with angsty dragon things.  I think that's when I really lost it.  


Megan was there with me.  I could see the stress/anxiety/need for me to shut up while she was trying to prepare bubbling to the surface, and I decided: "Hey, it'd be a good idea for me to try and distract her from her nervousness and talk about other things! VERY IRRELEVANT THINGS!!"  I tried to tell her a joke I had heard, and it ended up with me giggling hysterically, and not feeling at all sane (as sane as someone like me can possibly be, THAT RHYMED, HEY!). 


Then came the time for me to enter the room with my teacher, who was waiting for me with the gleam of "OH HOH HOH WHAT HAVE WE HERE??!!" in her eyes.  


One thing I hate about going into exams, is when the teacher tries to do the whole: "So how are you feeling? Are you ready?" NO! NOT NOW, NOT EVER! SKIP THE PRELIMINARIES AND ASK ME THE DAMN QUESTIONS!!! But of course, I'm polite, so I simply put on a grimace and mutter out my: "Yeah, I guess..thanks. And you?"


So this is what went down:

I could tell she was unimpressed with the lack of words that were meant to be coming out of my mouth, especially when I'm usually the one having conversations with her in French, anyways!  But I needed time to answer the question, and I had already used the "Ehm's" and the "Bon question!", now I had to bring out the big one...

Hanging my head in defeat and singing: "Wonderful Night" by Fatboy Slim is never the correct thing to do when in a French oral exam, when you need time.

My teacher just shouted: "QUOI?!!" But you can't hear this part on the recording she made of me, so I guess it's alright.

In the end, she told me I did rather well, except my "Accuracy" was a bit of a failwhale! D: As long as I don't get a C, I'm pretty content! So now, I'm off to do some more "studying" and all that jazz.  I'll probably post one more thing today, and then I think I'm signing off for a few days, or something! :D

xx 

PS: Please don't ever follow my example when taking an exam, it's not helpful.