Week 13- Midterms

Sorry for the late update last week! May is going to be a busy month.

It's the middle of the semester. I can't believe we're already done with the first week of May. I don't know where the time goes. May is a busy month, because classes have their midterms during May. The international classes all have their exams last week and the following week, but the Argentine classes are on a different schedule. Their midterms (parciales) are all spread out. I had my two international midterms this last week. They were back to back on Thursday, but they were pretty easy! We'll see how easy they actually were when the grades are in, but for the international courses, because everyone is at a different level of Spanish, they make the questions very general. For my History midterm, we only had four questions off of a sheet that we had previously been given. As long as you studied beforehand, this one was super easy since we knew the questions beforehand. My professor gave us a sheet of 12 questions and told us he would pick 4 off of the sheet for the exam. My literature class was a little harder to study for as we didn't have a study guide or questions to go off of, but it ended up being very easy as well. We had 5 questions: 3 short essay and 2 short answer. It was a lot of writing to do in 3 hours, but they were not difficult.

My two Argentine courses have their exams towards the end of May. My History of Art exam is in 3 weeks and my Psych exam is in 4. I have two weeks without any exams, but have a presentation each week. I'm not too worried about my other exams since my professors seem to generally go easier on me since I'm not Argentine, but there is a lot of material to cover in my Psych class.

This last week was pretty uneventful due to studying for midterms all week. On Thursday night, I met up with some friends to have our first goodbye dinner since two of our friends are leaving soon as they were doing an intensive Spanish course for only 2 months.  Friday I had to go to Psych at 8am like always and then had to stay at the school to help with a presentation over migration and psychology. My professor wanted me to talk a bit about my experience here. Unfortunately no one showed up to the lecture, so my friend and I just talked with the prof and one other student from Italy for a while. It was interesting, but not exactly what I had planned on for my Friday afternoon.

Saturday I met up with my friends Virginia (who is leaving on Tuesday), Janell and Tracy to go to a fería since it was a really nice day. We spent the day at the fería and stopped into the cemetery since Virginia hadn't been. Overall a pretty relaxing, but nice day.

Next week I have a presentation for literature and have to go back to get my corrected visa. Hopefully this process will finally come to a close after almost 2 months!