Last lesson in April - 26.4

This was the last lesson before the very last lesson of the course, so there was not much left. We had still our posters and essays to finish. This was actually a really nice lesson with some discussions in groups, a class presentation and an exercise with a short story.

First of all we heard a presentation by Santeri, who talked about stand-up comedy and his favourite of them all. The presentation was nice as usual and the Prezi was clear. The topic was fun since we have had quite many presentations about Finnish grammar or language or history. This was a presentation focused on hobbies and it worked. The video was fun to watch although it was animated and not even by the artist himself, just a fan. The animation was good, I don't deny that, but maybe it would have felt more authentic to see the artist himself.

Next we got our essays back, the second draft, that we gave in last lesson with some ideas and thoughts written at the end of the essay. I really liked the idea of writing some thoughts and handing it in, just so we would get it back. It is nice to get some response to my own writing and especially when we don't get that in our courses in literature. I wrote about some doubts I had and questions around my phrasing. This lesson we could just sit and read through the answers the teacher gave us and ask some more questions. This kind of process really helps the writing and gives us a feeling of control.

Next we were supposed to talk about our posters "and how they are developing". I had actually pretty much finished mine since I worked on it for about two hours on a Tuesday and my aim was to finish it. My only problem when making the poster was the printing and the size - one library I visited had A3 papers but no color-printing. I then turned to Aleksandria where there were no A3 paper, but surely there was a color-printing mahcine. Just my luck. I found out that one was allowed to print in bigger size than A4, but only if you buy the paper yourself. Then I went through two bookshops before I found a A3 in Stockmann. During the class my poster got some nice comments, but just one I was afraid of: "The size could be bigger". After some failures I decided to just print in A3 and add one sentence. So my poster was pretty much done the first time. This lesson we didn't focus on posters more than this, the last lesson would concentrate on them much more.

The last thing before the time was 13:45 was for us to read a short story "The God's Script" by an author named Borges. This was one of my favourite exercises since it was about literature and the opinions we had about the story. I thought that we were supposed to talk in groups, so I didn't write as much about the story that I could have. In general the exercise was nice and I wonder if we are going to get some comments about the things we wrote and what the comments are based on. After this it was time to go home and say hi to my roomies cat.