Exams in Seville: What?

He vuelto! So far I have done 2 exams and now I have a nice 10 day break until my next one (I have 3 in quick succession). What have I made of them? Well, put it this way, it could have gone worse. Now that's a tricky phrase to employ because you could really almost always use it. If I had sat down and not been able to write a single word I could still have said it could have gone worse because really, the room could have burned down around me, a badger could have come in and chewed my leg off, or I could have forgotten my pen. Still, it's the best assessment I can give.

study fuel

For this year I have adopted the "Try not to fail and if you do fail oh well you have to go back to Ireland eventually" mentality. For this reason I... really haven't been very studious. Yes, my political ideologies exam last Monday had me panicking because I had so little idea of the background of, well, everything on the course, so my friend and I (we divided the material between us) did have an impressive combined 60ish pages of notes to go by. Needless to say the essay questions were topics I had not revised, but I managed. I'm hoping the Universidad de Sevilla gives out attempt marks like in Leaving Cert Maths. 19th Century Art History on Thursday was another story however. Typical, it was my favourite class of the term and one I actually did enjoy revising for, yet I'd say I did about ...3 hours? work towards it. Once again it could have been worse but it could have been better.

As per my predictions, exams here are quite a bit more laid back than in Dublin. On Monday we were split up and sent into offices in small groups to do the exam because a room couldn't be found for us, and a woman came in to mop the floor of my room about an hour in. There's no anonymous marking here, so my potential failure won't be hidden by a student number. Yesterday rather than give out an exam paper the professor just read out one essay title and we all did that for an hour. So far both exams have been shorter than timetabled. No seat numbers, no ID checks, no "leave everything outside", and not one person in a cape. I'm reeling from the informality of it all. 

Avoiding Exam Stress: Instead of stabbing people, use a knife to make a healthy breakfast!

In other news, there are city workers harvesting the oranges by hitting the trees with big sticks and on Monday I might be going to a *shock, horror, plot twist* football match. So if that happens it's bound to be interesting and I shall tell you all about it. Happy weekend mis amigos xx