Resa91's notebook entry: Sep 15, 2010

It was a busy day. I have to get up stand up at 6 o´clock every day when I have (you may replace this with "for" if you wish to shorten the sentence) school. Most of the days I have 10 lessons! Sometimes there is free time between them, but I cannot go home then. So I have to stay in at school. I try to mark spend the time in a wise way (you may also use "wisely") . Tomorrow I´m going to do my homework for the lessons having after my free time. Many other pupils sit in the room for the pupils who are in an upper class. So everyone knows everyone, I think so (you could say "So I think everyone knows everyone else"). It´s helpful if you don’t know anything, or you have forgotten something like a ruler.
Next week I will have to write* three tests: Latin on Monday, English on Tuesday, and politics on Friday. I hope that English will be okay… We shall have to analyse a speech, maybe by Martin Luther King or Malcolm X… Our topic for this semester is: The African-American Experience. It´s always about slavery and segregation and the rights of blacks, or rather the nonexistent equality of black and white people in the USA. I think it´s an important topic, but analyzing a speech is very hard. I don´t understand sometimes what the main Sometimes I don't understand the main argument is of the speaker, because they often use so many figurative phrases, which I cannot classify correctly.
Do you have any tips for me?

-Although one uses "stand up" (aufstehen)  in German to mean getting out of bed, in English one generally says something like "get up" instead. "I have to get up at 6am..."
-*In English, one would normally say "take three tests", instead of "write three tests". The later is not incorrect, but more people will know what you mean when you use "take" in this context.
-As usual, your English is quite good! :)