I couldn't sign into my lecture last week; it doesn't appear anyone did, and so my instructor found a new way of getting in to see if that would make a difference. There were two students who joined the morning lecture this week.
I am such an airhead during the morning. For some reason, I can't find my chat box unless I shrink down the screen. When I tried to stretch the screen, apparently the image was magnified, but not the box itself and so I couldn't see all the demonstrations. I did try to answer questions. I know my eyes may be looking at something right or left, but my mouth always says the wrong thing. Always.
I don't know how I've lived this long and haven't been able to distinguish my left from my right. I know what they are when I'm driving - but if I'm not the one behind the wheel, I can still sometimes get it wrong. If I am giving directions to someone, I will say, "Pay attention to my hands and not my mouth" and still manage to point right when I say left or vice-versa.
In Utah, I would say, "East, West, North or South" to avoid my left/right slip of tongue. I can't do that here. With all those twists and turns on the roads and an overcast sky, I honestly am more confused by e,w,n, and s than I am with l and r.
Thus far, the assignment seems a lot easier this week than last, but I was quite lost as I tried to follow yesterday. The instructor asked if we had questions and I did, but I thought I ought to get a better handle on whatever language she was speaking so that I could process it in my mind and translate it into something I could make sense of.
My instructor said she had always wanted to be an accountant. That is such a foreign concept to me. Why would anyone pick said career at such a young age? I don't foresee any glamour associated with being an accountant. I don't think I ever had any concept of it before.
I was going through a bunch of youtube videos hoping to find one that would help me believe that accounting could/can be fun. There were a couple that showed different accountants telling their favorite accounting jokes. I would like to understand the jokes and learn why they are funny; as of now, I don't understand any of them - nothing about accounting makes me laugh. Even the idea of a child saying, "I'd like to be an accountant when I grow up," leaves me speechless.
I signed onto my laptop during the afternoon as I can't seem to type as fast as I can vocally ask. Like most people, I hate the sound of my voice when I listen to a recording of it. And there it is - for not only all the class to listen to, but my instructor puts her videos on youtube for some reason - oh, joy. But perhaps it's an accurate representation of how I feel - like I'm in a foreign land and I haven't yet learned the language. And this is just the first in a series of 23 accounting classes.
On the plus side, I don't have to waste my time looking up references just for the sake of looking them up. No wordy essays for this class. No APA format. It's all excel and exams. Ironic that I like to write and I don't like numbers. This election year must have ruptured my brain or something.
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