Two Down, Two To Go

Monday April 21, 2008

Two of the four final tests done…and I think that they went well. I can’t believe that we are already taking our finals…where has all of time gone?

 I went to the Internet café for a bit to print a few things and to send in a couple of projects. Afterwards I met with a few students and our teacher Carmen in a bar near school to have a study group for our history final that is tomorrow. It went well, we got a lot of good studying done and Carmen, our teacher, was really helpful. I ended up breaking down a little bit and it was a rough end to a 3-hour study session about the history of Spain. Things worked out in the end but I stayed up after that studying for both my history and literature finals. I was pretty stressed out today, but it will all be over with tomorrow afternoon- and that’s my goal! I would be just as stressed out in the States, therefore it’s a normal feeling to have around finals time.

 Encarna is leaving tomorrow for a teaching conference in Málaga until Thursday. Therefore she came in to say “bye” to Sam because Sam is leaving on Wednesday. She isn’t doing the travel portion of May Term because she has a different class for her major for May Term. Encarna came in and brought us all ceramic tiles that her son Antonio, the artist, had painted for us. They are all the landscape of Conil, but they are all different in their own special ways. They are really cool, and it ended up working out perfectly because at the beginning of the semester we had joked that we were going to ask Encarna if her son would paint tiles for us…who knew that it would actually come true! My international art collection is growing by the day!