Exams ‘08, day five

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2007: one | two | three | four | five
2008: one | two | three | four

Studying might have been a good idea. A really astonishingly good idea, actually.

“Oh April, I’m sure you did fine,” I hear you all saying, with your unwavering faith in me. But a final for a class like Latin should not have been one where the logic for my answers was something like “Thrace sounds kind of trident-y” (which, incidentally, it isn’t). I should have felt confident about the Latin 2 benchmark, not laughing helplessly at all the culture/history questions that I had no freakin’ clue about.

Also it should not have had 100 multiple choice questions, involved so much writing, or taken over an hour. But, that’s just me being picky.

Oh, I forgot about the German 4 final, which I took first. That one was difficult as well, but this time because, in case you have not yet deduced this, WE DON’T LEARN ANYTHING IN THIS CLASS, so testing us on anything is unfair. In addition, our teacher is incompetent– actually, not “in addition” at all because this is the same point– so everyone wasted like 45 minutes on an impossibly difficult reading comprehension thing that she had messed up anyways and probably isn’t going to count. ARGH.

It was probably little more than annoying to everyone else, but when I had finished I had to move over a couple seats to take the Latin exam, in the same three-hour slot allotted to people taking only one exam, so wasting time was a serious issue. Not just time, but energy and focus. I ended up doing both tests kind of carelessly because I wanted to get out of that room so badly.

Blah.

But! I got to see Talia before the exams, and lots of cool people I don’t see very much. Afterwards I walked Downtown with Eva and Raffi while designing a better laser cooler (…) and eating Emilee’s spicy chips. The weather was pretty much fantastic, all I ever could have asked for. Rain at night (the thunder and lightning waking me up), rain once I got home, but all sunshine and no rain while I was out and about. It was because I brought my umbrella. Doesn’t that happen to you? It rains when you don’t bring an umbrella and doesn’t when you do. Story of my life.

My ulterior motive for going Downtown was to get trained for my summer job at Brötchen (gah! April doing something other than accompanying!), thanks mostly to the fact that I know one of the main employees, Angela. But Angela– who is always always always there– wasn’t there, this day of all days. I’ll try again sometime else, I guess.

Surprisingly enough, I don’t have any photos.

Tags: exams, German, Latin, weather