I just finished reading a short chapter of my 'language, culture, translation' course. I really feel like sharing my excitement and joy after reading this, as I believe you can understand these positive feeling more than anyone will do =)
I still remember how you advised me that don't turn down on Psychology just because it is hard, and don't be too positive about International Communication just because I assume it is easier (Or this concept is from my mum? I can't remember clearly). This unknown bothers me for almost a year until I took this course this semester.
This course is hard, because all the ideas and key concepts in it are vague and complicated. Even after finishing the papers and be confident that I understand every words in them, I still cannot fully grasp the idea and the whole picture... it can be a little frustrating, and would be enough for me in the past to chicken out. But! Despite of these, I can still feel excitement and a strong interest towards these new knowledge.
These feelings are quite different from what I experience in the past. Last time, my results or my potential good performance are the only reason for me to be interested in something, and to really try and involve deeper. If I anticipated failure or performed below my own standard, I will just quit at the very beginning and tell myself it was not fun (酸葡萄心理)... But, now that even I know I can't get HD (or even a D?) for linguistic courses, I am still happily doing them (quite stressful sometimes haha).
Hopefully I will not lose to the frustration and difficulties, and I can still continue my journey in studying International communication fueled by my own passion.
p.s. I will just attach the chapter "Through the language glasses: Russian Blues" as I think it is really interesting to read and it is just 16 pages long.
