Distraction... ;)
Dear all
As always, when I have to study, I start doing other things, and for once (again) you benefit from that. Actually, I should be working for university day and night - explanation in a second - but I'm just so not in the mood for reading books or writing papers...
well, let me tell you what has been happening since my last post - which again feels like ages ago although it's only been two weeks! By the way, I was mistaken, my stay here will be half way over at the end of next week (yes, still counting....)! :)
Right, so last time I mentioned this exam - which by the way was the most detailed class I ever had on Spanish grammar (and not just for foreigners, about half the class were Spanish people and the things we were tought were new to them, too - so you can imagine...) - which took place two weeks ago, after a few days of very intensive studying (it won't surprise you that I didn't even open my books while I was at home over Christmas). The exam went quite well I thought (and I got the confirmation for that yesterday - I passed the exam with one of the highest grades of the class, funny thing is that most Spanish people actually failed or had quite low grades!!!), but I didn't have any time to think about it once it was written because that same evening, my best friend from uni back home came to visit me. I was so excited to see him again; he is also doing Erasmus this year and he left for Amsterdam already in August, so I hadn't seen him in almost half a year (he wasn't home when I was in December)! Unfortunately, he could only stay for two days, but it was great! We did something like "how to see Valencia in one day" and definitely didn't sleep much - although it was crazy, all the bars/pubs were empty when we came: Valencia during exam period is a ghost city, all the people who don't work during term hide in the libraries for three weeks and no one goes out at night!!! Scary... anyway, it's not as we depended on other people to have fun, right? :) So we had lots of fun, together with my two best friends from here, Brad and Laura. When my swiss friend left, I just continued with that lifestyle of going out every evening, not sleeping much, eating a lot and spending a lot of money, this time with a sad reason: Brad and Laura both only stayed in Valencia for one semester and have left now, so I had to enjoy the last days with them!! So basically I'm left alone now... or, in other words, I can go back to square one and try to find new friends once term starts (which is next Monday)... could imagine nicer things to do! :(
And well, once they were gone, I realized how soon my next exam already is: this Thursday (which is....... the day after tomorrow.... aaaaaah!!!)! This time, it's about colonial literature and honestly, I'm scared to death about it! It's an exam with material, so we basically have to have a virtual index of everything in our brain so we can use and quote it during the exam - which by the way consists of four essays in three hours.... furthermore, seeing that "just an exam" is not enough for my home university, I have to write a ten page paper for the same professor about one of the topics of class - the problem is, that I have to hand in the paper the day of the exam, but she will only correct it if I pass the exam - otherwise, it goes straight to the bin!!! Can you imagine why I prefer writing here on my blog than continuing with my work?? But well, I guess I have to go back to Columbus and all his friends now... :)
As always, when I have to study, I start doing other things, and for once (again) you benefit from that. Actually, I should be working for university day and night - explanation in a second - but I'm just so not in the mood for reading books or writing papers...
well, let me tell you what has been happening since my last post - which again feels like ages ago although it's only been two weeks! By the way, I was mistaken, my stay here will be half way over at the end of next week (yes, still counting....)! :)
Right, so last time I mentioned this exam - which by the way was the most detailed class I ever had on Spanish grammar (and not just for foreigners, about half the class were Spanish people and the things we were tought were new to them, too - so you can imagine...) - which took place two weeks ago, after a few days of very intensive studying (it won't surprise you that I didn't even open my books while I was at home over Christmas). The exam went quite well I thought (and I got the confirmation for that yesterday - I passed the exam with one of the highest grades of the class, funny thing is that most Spanish people actually failed or had quite low grades!!!), but I didn't have any time to think about it once it was written because that same evening, my best friend from uni back home came to visit me. I was so excited to see him again; he is also doing Erasmus this year and he left for Amsterdam already in August, so I hadn't seen him in almost half a year (he wasn't home when I was in December)! Unfortunately, he could only stay for two days, but it was great! We did something like "how to see Valencia in one day" and definitely didn't sleep much - although it was crazy, all the bars/pubs were empty when we came: Valencia during exam period is a ghost city, all the people who don't work during term hide in the libraries for three weeks and no one goes out at night!!! Scary... anyway, it's not as we depended on other people to have fun, right? :) So we had lots of fun, together with my two best friends from here, Brad and Laura. When my swiss friend left, I just continued with that lifestyle of going out every evening, not sleeping much, eating a lot and spending a lot of money, this time with a sad reason: Brad and Laura both only stayed in Valencia for one semester and have left now, so I had to enjoy the last days with them!! So basically I'm left alone now... or, in other words, I can go back to square one and try to find new friends once term starts (which is next Monday)... could imagine nicer things to do! :(
And well, once they were gone, I realized how soon my next exam already is: this Thursday (which is....... the day after tomorrow.... aaaaaah!!!)! This time, it's about colonial literature and honestly, I'm scared to death about it! It's an exam with material, so we basically have to have a virtual index of everything in our brain so we can use and quote it during the exam - which by the way consists of four essays in three hours.... furthermore, seeing that "just an exam" is not enough for my home university, I have to write a ten page paper for the same professor about one of the topics of class - the problem is, that I have to hand in the paper the day of the exam, but she will only correct it if I pass the exam - otherwise, it goes straight to the bin!!! Can you imagine why I prefer writing here on my blog than continuing with my work?? But well, I guess I have to go back to Columbus and all his friends now... :)
posted by Sabin at 4:50 PM
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