back to school

I'm back in Serbian classes, which is good for my grammar, but bad for my mental health.

One of my teachers is an insufferable old-school conservative Montenegrin nationalism all-around bad guy. I wouldn't care so much about his politics if he was a good teacher, but he isn't. He likes to talk politics with us, which is lazy teaching and unfair. We really don't have the capacity to make good arguments in Serbian, so he always wins by default.

Yesterday, he turned the topic to religion. He told us how each country should only have one church. American pluralist and secularist that I am, I argued that point, attempting to say that having many churches gives people many choices and keeps church leaders from becoming to powerful. He countered with, 'but churches aren't political parties.' My response was, 'but they act like them' (except filled with stupid grammatical mistakes for sure).

He then moved onto insulting Islam, which brought the Moroccan student into the discussion. She speaks well, so her points were much more coherent than mine.

He's so frustrating, but at least he motivates me to study.