Unfortunately double kanji tests do not rock. I feel like I did very average on the first exam on the morning but the test for the JLPT prep course was impossible, especially seeing as how I didn't study at all. The whole idea was to memorize every new kanji on some six pages of JLPT questions. Unlike the kanji drill book that is written in like 24 font with giant squares to separate each kanji so only three fit on a page, the JLPT study sheets read like novels with multiple choice questions thrown in the mix.
Now that seems like a pretty common sense formula for a difficult time, yet some how the classmate setting next to me didn't agree. She's from Hong Kong and has that advantage of having used kanji since she was like two, so I reminded her several times that despite my looks I am really American. (Heavy on the sarcasm...) She replied to that several times with some new way of telling me that I should study harder. When I explained to her that kanji wasn't difficult it was just too much in two short a time, she still couldn't understand and told me to study more. This went back and forth for almost ten minutes because I hate being looked down on, but even more so when I'm actually doing very well for my background so I just couldn't let it go.
Luckily, karma was on my side. I rocked out a 3/10 on the test! Haha, not so great right? Yeah, well little Miss You-should-study-more also got a 3/10. I was laughing pretty hard until she got that really strange look on her face. I couldn't figure out if it was anger, disappointed, tears coming up, who knows. She deserved a lower score for being so pompous about studying when she obviously needs more time in the books herself. Moments like that kind of make all the lame stuff at school seem kind of funny. You know, like the "you will laugh when you look back on it" kind of funny.
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