Midterms

This week’s the midterms and you could easily sense it weeks before this. Last week the school library suddenly became the number one place for all the hardworking (studying in this case) Koreans. It’s amazing really, there seriously are no free seats anywhere in the library, no matter how hard you try to look for one. Since last week, they started opening the library at 4 a.m, just so that students would get more time to study.
And people actually go there! 4a.m!
Insane!

My own studying has been minimal compared to that, but I’ll manage.
Hopefully.
I had my first exam on Monday (yesterday). I studied the material carefully, but I still did bad. Actually the whole class did bad so I’m not worried.
The thing is, the teacher actually assumed that we would memorize the names of 24 seasonal periods plus of course the other topics that our material covered.
24! In Korean!
None…not ONE of us memorized them. We didn’t think that was as important as remembering the late King’s name or what the different elements in the Korean flag represent.
And the best part was…not even the Korean students in our class knew them!
HAHA. 8D

Today’s my second exam. It’s gonna be an oral exam, because the class is Intermediate Japanese Conversation. I’m actually kinda worried (read: VERY worried).
The teacher only told us that she’s gonna interview us one by one, but she never revealed the topic she’s going to interview us on.
Thus, we really don’t know what to study. It could be anything.
This is very bad for me.
Even though I can handle a normal conversation in Japanese, my vocabulary doesn’t cover all that much. And ’cause I don’t know the topic, I haven’t been able to study any words either.

[EDIT] I worried for nothing, the interview was a piece of cake! The teacher’s so nice and all went sooo well! I even got compliments on my Japanese!
幸せ~♬

Tomorrow’s a day off and on Thursday we have to turn in our Midterm papers for the Cinema class. I still haven’t even started on that, but it’s only 600 words so I can easily start it today when I get home and finish it tomorrow.
Friday’s finally the Korean exam. I have to study.
I’m gonna spend most of tomorrow and Thursday evening studying for that. Even though the subjects aren’t that difficult, the exam covers a lot so I have a lot of material to go through and memorize.
And when the clock hits 3 p.m on Friday, we can finally sigh and get ready to celebrate a friend’s birthday and the end of the exams.

On a totally different note…
How hard can it be to open a window when you burn the insect candle?!
I was about to choke when I woke up, ’cause a certain someone had closed the door and all the windows and THEN started burning the candle (Huom Suomalaiset, kyseessa on siis sellanen Off kierukan sukulainen, josta lahtee paljon savua). You could see the smoke clouds in the room and the smell was horrible.
I mean…doesn’t it only make sense that the smoke HAS to have a way OUT of the room (other than our lungs)?
Just hope my clothes won’t start to stink because of this.
-_-

My roommate’s gonna be here only one semester, so I get a new roommate when the spring semester begins. And right from the beginning I’m gonna make sure she understands that there are TWO persons living in this room.
This also means that I’ll have the room all to myself from January till the last weeks of February. NIIIICE. 8D

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