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What is an exam? I have forgotten. Today we'll focus on the academic side of Erasmus. Something people tend to forget about. (I admit I thought my primary occupation here was olive eater rather than student for a while).

Hola folks, first off you'll be glad to hear I'm feeling a lot more postive this week (no more misery! yay!) which is odd because I'm currently buried in Spanish political history notes. Yes, it is exam season, which is a strange feeling for me because my home university only has exams at the end of the year. So I'm finding it hard to really get into the swing of things, but oh well it has to be done. This week I've had classes but a last minute panic over my first exam next Monday (which happens to be my most complicated class and also the one I went to least... smart move there on my part I'm feeling pretty proud) has led me to spend more time in the library this week than I did all last term. The same thing happens at home, to be honest. Don't set foot in there for two months and then practically live in the place for the 3 days before an essay is due.

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Progress is painfully slow when you're reading and writing notes in another language about things you aren't familiar with, and I'm expecting these exams to be pretty challenging. I am holding onto hope that as foreign students we'll be shown a little mercy in the grading; I'm not ruling out scrawling "ERASMUS" across the top of my exam papers, perhaps in my own blood for dramatic effect. It does look like exams here in the University of Seville, much like everything else in the University of Seville, are fairly casual though, timetables and places get changed around all the time. Fingers crossed anyway, we wouldn't like to have to repeat things would we... or be deported (preparing for the worst case scenario here).

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Have to admit, I'm feeling pretty jealous of the friends I have on Erasmus across Europe who are doing their classes and exams through English, but let's remember once again that I am here to learn Spanish after all. And from what I've heard there are some universities who are a bit tough on you even if you aren't a native speaker of the language you're being taught through coughFrancecough. Best of luck anyone else doing exams at this time, I'm sure we can do it. And if we can't we can't, you know? No use in worrying :D Hasta la próxima semana, I've another exam next thursday so that'll probably be the next time I check in x

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