I hate these damn 作文

[tsukikage]

So, I'm writing my 300-400 character 留学か旅行の経験の作文 (essay on a study abroad or vacation experience), and I was going to write about my trips to Germany when I was younger, but since we have to stuff it with vocab and grammar from this lesson, and most of the vocab is school-related, I'm thinking it might make more sense to write about my trip to Vancouver to visit U.B.C. Of course, then I'd have to do a bunch of research so I can fill in the gaps in my memory when it comes to the specifics of the academic program there that concerned me and why I wanted to go there, and I'm lazy.

tsukikage85 (7:06:12 PM): i hate trying to figure out ways to cram given grammar and vocab into something i'm writing
RedClaw49 (7:06:19 PM): I agree
RedClaw49 (7:06:28 PM): There's always the tried and true make-shit-up option

Of course, I've never been good at bringing myself to just make stuff up... It's a bad habit I need to break.

Comments

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

I too find it difficult to BS assignments, but I've found it easier to do when I'm not merely BS-ing something, but GLORIOUSLY so - you might find it easier to make stuff up if you don't try to modify a trip you've really been on, but just totally make up one that you haven't. Ever wanted to go to Mongolia? Well, I haven't, but what essay ISN'T made better with a few pots of fermented mare's milk in a little yurt on the steppes?

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
I want to put that in my AIM profile... Or my facebook quotes. Or somewhere.