It has been another busy week here in Entre Rios Argentina. After a week with only one class and walking around Buenos Aires, it was really hard to get back into things. I found out Sunday afternoon that a midterm exam I thought was next Monday was actually this past Monday. I didn't get to study nearly as much as I wanted to and it was not a very good test. It was pretty confusing and I don't think I did well in it. Thankfully that test, in Folklore, was the hardest exam I had all week. Tuesday I had my Ortografia exam. Orthography is like Hooked on Phonics, we are learning the rules of Spanish spelling kind of like "i before e except after c." Right now we've been focusing on syllables and tilde placement. I memorized the rules and I think I did fairly well on that exam.
Tuesday night I stayed up with Sheryll and Megan to watch the election proceedings in the basement of our dorm. We fought off spiders and cockroaches until 4 am our time; but it was worth it to know who was leading our nation and hear Obama speak. It was also not the smartest decision I made all week. I had two exams Wednesday morning (beginning at 8:30 am): Grammar and Conversation. Both of the tests weren't took bad and I think I did pretty well on them. We reviewed for our History exam during class in preparation for our exam next week and I'll have a unit exam in Bible over Hinduism. Yes, I came to Argentina and I'm taking world religions...again .
Today I had my geography exam. I could have studied a little bit more, but after only sleeping for 3 hours Tuesday night, I was exhausted and chose to sleep instead of study more. After my exam I got right back in bed today and slept until around 12. Actually, I've pretty much been in bed all day. It's been raining here and since I didn't have any classes and I didn't want to get drenched (down pours all afternoon) I stayed in bed.
The power's been flipping on and off all day. It was quite a pain because my fan would obviously stop working and so did the WiFi. The weather's calmed down a bit but I think we're in for more storms tonight. I hope not though. I'd rather my fan work all night long.
It's been in the 80s all week and relatively humid. Today, because of the rain, has been very humid which is irritating my knee.
It feels like I've been here for a long time already but at the same time I'm not sure how it's already November. We're still working on Christmas plans, which will hopefully be finalized soon. But we really only have 4 more weeks of classes and a week of finals before our Christmas break. My roommates will be going home for the summer and the campus will be less full for a few months. Hopefully I won't get any new roommates and the internet will speed up. I've been told it does. I still don't have many friends, really no real friends to speak of, but I'm much more acclimated to being here. Every day there's a new reason as to why this was the best time for me to come.
Thanks for all of your prayers and cards of encouragement. I'm working on writing back to everyone, I promise I will write back as soon as I can.
Until next.
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