Resa91's notebook entry: Sep 15, 2010

It was a busy day. I have to get up <strike>stand up</strike> 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<strike> in</strike> at school. I try to <strike>mark</strike> spend the time in a wise way (you may also use "wisely") . Tomorrow I´m going to do my homework for the lessons <strike>having </strike>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 <strike>shall</strike><strike> </strike>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. <strike>I don´t understand sometimes what the main</strike> Sometimes I don't understand the main argument <strike>is</strike> 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 <em>get up</em> 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! :)

Resa91's notebook entry: Aug 29, 2010

I don´t know what I should <strike>could</strike> write down, but I want to write something. Sometimes I just lie on my bed and listen to music. After a while I don't <strike>doesn´t</strike> hear the music, because I´m lost in my thoughts. Then I <strike>can</strike> (often / sometimes) have good and bad feelings. I think it´s difficult to stop bad feelings, if I have them <strike>some ones</strike>. In this situation I try to think about good things happening <strike>happenings</strike>, but it doesn´t always work. After this it helps to chat with my friends or<strike> to</strike> read a good book.

It´s hard for me to think in another language. I don’t know exactly <strike>accurately</strike> why. Other people don't have as <strike>haven´t</strike> big a problem with it. I have studied <strike>learned </strike>English for 6 years, I think, but I`m not sure how to use <strike>not sure of</strike> many sentence structures and tenses. There are many things you have to remember <strike>which you have to take note</strike>. In spite  <strike>Instead</strike> of having problems with that, it can be easy to chat with other people. So It´s nice to meet new people and get to know them.

Very minor mistakes. Good job! "Practice makes perfect", and I think you're doing a great job just posting often and writing a lot, even when you're not completely certain if a sentence is correct. You also present a very interesting notebook entry. I look forward to reading more!