Class reports: week 1

[chaoswolf]

(Future note: anywhere it says "free fries", I get them from V-Chan.)

Monday: Greensheet for LART 200 classes. Boring. All we did.
Tuesday: Started looking at course outline for remainder of the quarter. Looked @ due dates for papers. Started current assignment: the personal letter about a signifigant place.I chose asahoshi's house, because I could. Looked @ greensheet, got loner eqipment. Got free fries from V-Chan.
Wed: Not much happened. Ate a tangerine in LART, got free fries from V-Chan.
Thurs: Discussed possibly an extra credit assignment by writing a similar type letter on tangerine. Didn't work. Did first half of letter as HW assignment. Finished vocab assignment & printed out to hand in tomorrow. Fencing instructer tried to kill me. I know my footwork sucks. Didn't help I was wearing boots at the time, but that problem will soon be rectified. Free fries.
Fri: Not much happened. Wrote other half of LART homework assignment/letter. asahoshi will see that the second half of the letter obviously describes detail. Letter e-mailed to people in .txt upon request.
Sat: Haven't gotten here yet, but will be going to NewCommer's Torney & going to Werewolf game. That's all I know.

Comments

[mdlbear]

Of course he tried to kill you! That's the, um, point.

Great little passage in Glory Road by RAH, at the start of the grand duel in Chapter 15:

He advanced so fast and so smoothly that he seemed to apport and our blades rang as I parried his attack in sixte and riposted, was countered--remise, reprise, beat-and-attack--the phrase ran so smoothly, so long, and in such variation that a spectator might have thought that we were running through Grand Salute.

But I knew! That first lunge was meant to kill me, and so was his every move throughout that phrase.

[chaoswolf]

Gee, thanks dad. I feel so much better. BTW: Was that supposed to be spelled "sixth"? Typo.

[mdlbear]

No, "sixte" is correct -- it's French, and is one of the eight positions you can hold your foil. Sixte and quarte are the most common.

Glory Road is well worth a read, BTW.

[roaringmouse.livejournal.com]

But, Katy dear, the whole point of fencing is to "kill" you. At least you were not facing a colonel who just got his final divorce papers. Craig got very black and blue.

[chaoswolf]

I understand this. I really do. I'm just crazy, I guess. Need to print that out before I go to school in the morning, I think.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, here! What is this, some sort of accelerated fencing class? What sort of pseudo-instructor is this? You shouldn't be fencing with *anyone* (instructor included) in the first week! You're supposed to be practicing lunges, footwork, and advance/retreat. I'm now wondering how qualified this instructor is to teach. Aside from trying to kill you.

[chaoswolf]

We were drilling. We weren't fencing. We were practicing. It was all loner gear & practicing footwork.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Okay, you mean figuratively, not with a blade, one-on-one. With fencing, one has to be careful of terms. ;-)
(I've known some SCA yahoos who believed they were "teaching fencing" by tossing someone a foil and saying "defend yourself!" while they they went on the attack against the newbie.)

[asahoshi.livejournal.com]

no offence, but the SCA thinks beating each other with padded weapons is sword fighting, from what i've seen.

[chaoswolf]

None taken, love. Honestly.