Email to Professoressa Martinelli

Blog No. 76: Email to Professoressa Martinelli

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Instead of a blog, I'm going to show you the email that I sent to Professoressa Martinelli to explain today's absence and to negotiate a way to prevent the three day absence letter grade drop rule.

Enjoy:

Professoressa Martinelli,

This is David Cox from the TTh Italian class. I apologize for my absence today, diciasette di Marzo. I was incapable of getting to campus on time to your class and ended up not making it. I would very much appreciate getting the subjects we learned in class today so that I can prepare notes and homework before class Thursday.

I would also like to discuss options around the rule for missing three classes dropping a letter grade. I believe I proved that I can study on my own time to make up for lost days. I have missed two days in a row of class before the first chapter exam due to strep throat and I still got a 27/30 on my tema, as well as having an improved test score from 90% to 93%. The reason I'm bringing this up is because there's a school approved choir field trip coming up on the cinque di Maggio. If I can somehow negotiate some deal with you for me to make up time I have missed so that my grade won't drop any
further or perhaps raising it. I've worked hard for a good standing grade and I'd like my grade to show my abilities in the language of Italian rather than the few days I could not help being missed. I would very much appreciate and be open to the opportunity of coming in during office hours or going to a tutor session before class or extra homework assignments or anything to prevent my grade from dropping. I will understand if I am no longer physically capable of raising my grade. Regardless, I would like to know so that I can tell my choir director to give my bus seat away to someone else.

Thank you very much. I will be happy to see you on Thursday, assuming I recover from tonight's
concert. ---David

PS, Invito tu frequentare il concierto di ARC Chamber and Concert Choir il dicianove di Marzo. E dodici dollori. Ascolta Angela, Thim, e io cantiamo in il teatro di ARC.

Roughly translated: I invite you to attend the ARC choir concert this thursday (3/19). It is 12 dollars. Come listen to Angela, Thim, and I sing in the ARC theatre.

Hopefully she's not affected by the *bad economy* XP

Yeah. SLEEP!

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Oh yeah, EDIT: I got accepted to UC Santa Cruz! WOOT!

LOLZ XP