Formal Invite To Honor Dinner
Having good grades at a university is a really good thing. It gives you access to scholarships, which of course allows one to continue their studies.
Yet sometimes it can be very stressful. There is, of course, the fact that everyone simply begins to expect you to do good or to be able to answer questions. That’s not so bad as much as it’s occasionally irritating.
Then there are circumstances like this: This morning I learned that the letter that our language instructor handed out was a formal, yet personal invitation. To an annual awards banquet of the foreign languages department.
It starts like this:
Dear Stephen Meyer,
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures requests the honor of your presence at its annual awards banquet …”
Goodness gracious! O.O
I thought that this letter was the same for everyone in class and that it was simply a (incoming redundancy!) formal form letter. Nope, no such luck.
Am I complaining? Not necessarily. Am I stressing out? Well let’s see. Now I need to prepare for a possible speech in a foreign language, or at least an inevitable request to have a small conversation, at an honor banquet.
Yep, that’s a bit heavy doc.
(why yes, that was a reference to the 80’s.)
~Steph
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