I reckon since I said I would tell you about it later…. I
should do it. So this is what it looked like after getting back from the Tour.
We arrived a day earlier than we normally do from Tours. We got back on a Sunday afternoon, so we had an afternoon to get settled in, and the majority of us slept almost all day catching up on sleep we missed on the Tour.
Each week our classes start on Tuesday instead of a normal Monday. Monday here is like a Saturday because it’s a day off! You only have work around campus in the morning and then its free the rest of the day. Buuut. For those of us returning from the Tour… we don’t have to go to work since its our exam week. So we studied all of Monday. We were all expecting to do our first exam on Wednesday, when they told us it would be on Tuesday afternoon. So we literally started freaking out since we only had one day to study.
On top of that the first Exam on Tuesday was the hardest one. So one Monday night, 3 of us girls decided to study all night until we were ready…. That is IF we could be ready in time. We brought out food, coffee, blankets, everything anyone would need to stay up all night in a girls hall-dormitory.
One of the reasons we were so pressured with this class is because we were assigned to read Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy in 4 weeks. Now that isn’t so hard… its just a book a week. Buuuut say your name is Renita.. and say you were in the middle of reading a book (for pleasure) and decided to try finish that book before you start on the reading assignment for class… then say…. you end up having to read those 4 books in 2 weeks (one week being while on tour and doing 3 shows everyday) So I suppose that wasn’t so wise of me to read other books when I had a reading assignment. But, that’s how it went yall.
So luckily on the Tour, I was able to read Exodus and Leviticus… basically any free moment we had I would read a chapter here, then a chapter there. A chapter right before my song, or while riding in the bus 10mins away. Just everywhere. And little by little I read the 2 books.
Then coming back to campus I had to read 2 more books, PLUS study for the whole class! Annnnd I only had ONE day. So that’s why this exam week was so insane. Jana and I sat on Monday morning, and almost read the 2 books in one sitting in the morning, but I left a tiny bit of Deuteronomy for later. Then started all the class studying. We studied in the hallway that night…. Allllll night. Literally. We would get off track sometimes and start talking, or we’d get really sleepy so we would make more coffee… or run a few times around the building (well maybe Jana was the only one who did that) but needless to say…. Around 5am Andrea decided to go to bed, and Jana just conked out on the hallway floor. I would have loved to sleep, but still (even being 5am) didn’t feel ready for the exam. So I kept studying, thennn started getting ready for the day. We left the hallway around 6am since everyone starts getting up… technically we weren’t supposed to be out studying so late. But there was no way we were just going to go to bed not being ready for the exam.
We arrived a day earlier than we normally do from Tours. We got back on a Sunday afternoon, so we had an afternoon to get settled in, and the majority of us slept almost all day catching up on sleep we missed on the Tour.
Each week our classes start on Tuesday instead of a normal Monday. Monday here is like a Saturday because it’s a day off! You only have work around campus in the morning and then its free the rest of the day. Buuut. For those of us returning from the Tour… we don’t have to go to work since its our exam week. So we studied all of Monday. We were all expecting to do our first exam on Wednesday, when they told us it would be on Tuesday afternoon. So we literally started freaking out since we only had one day to study.
On top of that the first Exam on Tuesday was the hardest one. So one Monday night, 3 of us girls decided to study all night until we were ready…. That is IF we could be ready in time. We brought out food, coffee, blankets, everything anyone would need to stay up all night in a girls hall-dormitory.
One of the reasons we were so pressured with this class is because we were assigned to read Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy in 4 weeks. Now that isn’t so hard… its just a book a week. Buuuut say your name is Renita.. and say you were in the middle of reading a book (for pleasure) and decided to try finish that book before you start on the reading assignment for class… then say…. you end up having to read those 4 books in 2 weeks (one week being while on tour and doing 3 shows everyday) So I suppose that wasn’t so wise of me to read other books when I had a reading assignment. But, that’s how it went yall.
So luckily on the Tour, I was able to read Exodus and Leviticus… basically any free moment we had I would read a chapter here, then a chapter there. A chapter right before my song, or while riding in the bus 10mins away. Just everywhere. And little by little I read the 2 books.
Then coming back to campus I had to read 2 more books, PLUS study for the whole class! Annnnd I only had ONE day. So that’s why this exam week was so insane. Jana and I sat on Monday morning, and almost read the 2 books in one sitting in the morning, but I left a tiny bit of Deuteronomy for later. Then started all the class studying. We studied in the hallway that night…. Allllll night. Literally. We would get off track sometimes and start talking, or we’d get really sleepy so we would make more coffee… or run a few times around the building (well maybe Jana was the only one who did that) but needless to say…. Around 5am Andrea decided to go to bed, and Jana just conked out on the hallway floor. I would have loved to sleep, but still (even being 5am) didn’t feel ready for the exam. So I kept studying, thennn started getting ready for the day. We left the hallway around 6am since everyone starts getting up… technically we weren’t supposed to be out studying so late. But there was no way we were just going to go to bed not being ready for the exam.
In the
morning I got to see the sunrise, then decided to finish reading Deuteronomy. I
kept nodding off while finished the last 5 chapters though. I guess not
sleeping all night does that to you. So I may have slept 15 minutes throughout
reading. 7:45 -- we
headed to class! Sleepless and going to our new classes! Our exam was at 2:30pm
so we still had the morning to go over things. I was studying through class a
bit, and then skipped lunch and studied until 2:30.
In the ennnd. The results of my exam is that there were still a few questions on the exam that I didn’t know.. which ended up being actually silly because the teacher gave a Questionnaire for all the students to know what to study, but since we were gone on tour not being there that day.. so a friend gave me the questions when we got back. …. But unfortunately not all the questions were on that paper. So there were some I didn’t study for. Ahhh well. these things happen in life.
So after the test, I finally went to sleep for 4 hours. My friend had to come wake me up to go to Study Hall, since I slept through dinner too.
Ahhh! The other thing that made exam week super crazy was having a music presentation/competition right in between the two exams! Thats another whole story though, that maybe if time is nice to me this month... and my brain remembers to write about.... and myself feels in the mood for it.... I'll tell you about it. IF NOT. Thennnn. Ohwels-huh.
In the ennnd. The results of my exam is that there were still a few questions on the exam that I didn’t know.. which ended up being actually silly because the teacher gave a Questionnaire for all the students to know what to study, but since we were gone on tour not being there that day.. so a friend gave me the questions when we got back. …. But unfortunately not all the questions were on that paper. So there were some I didn’t study for. Ahhh well. these things happen in life.
So after the test, I finally went to sleep for 4 hours. My friend had to come wake me up to go to Study Hall, since I slept through dinner too.
Ahhh! The other thing that made exam week super crazy was having a music presentation/competition right in between the two exams! Thats another whole story though, that maybe if time is nice to me this month... and my brain remembers to write about.... and myself feels in the mood for it.... I'll tell you about it. IF NOT. Thennnn. Ohwels-huh.
But. I suddenly lost interest in continuing this writing, to which I'm sure you'll be happy to hear. So instead I will show you some random photos.
A little look into what Show is... this is us on the tour, and here we're at a school in a morning.
Only because you can't recognize.. I'm the 1st girl in the long blue dress on the left :P
Show in a Plaza. This is the opening scene....
as you can see the "Director of Show" appears and is welcoming the crowd.
Thiiiiiisss.... is me trying to cram in reading the whole book of Deuteronomy is less than 24 hours, I decided to break out the good ole saved Peanut Butter to motivate me.
This is called Renita, Jana (American MK to France) and Andrea (Ecuador) starting to study at 11pm and really freaking out cause we know nothing for the exam ...YET!
.tiff)
Annnd... this would be 5am, Andea had just decided to hit the hay, and Jana just conked out in the hall. .... I was too unprepared to do either.
Left my studies for a quick relaxer and see the new day start out.
Annnnd. This is how a crazy week of Exams is.... except I only told you about one day. So... basically all the days are something like this sort.
Thats all I gots for nows.
Thats all I gots for nows.
Peace out girl scouts.
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