It always seemed that time went fast in exams before this one, but there is absolutely no doubt now that there exists some species of time warp in exam halls. Two and a half hours just blazed by in a blink. It is recommended that you spend the first hour working on the source materials and your plan, the next hour on writing, and the half hour remaining on checking. Quelle blague, quelle ambition! And the minimum word count is 650. Minimum.
All things considered, it went fine. Although I didn't actually count the words (being short of time!), I'm confident there was sufficient quantity, if not quality. The question was not one you could categorise into one particular topic: language learning and cultural exchange. Hey ho.
The speaking test went very well. I was in the first group, had to present the article which I was most comfortable with, and there was one of my tutorial pals in the test group: all very much the way I wanted it.
The downers were few: in the written exam I wasn't cold, but the guy next to me munched his way through a huge bag of Maltesers, and the girl in front of him had problems with her cd player. Distracting, but not terribly grave. My desk had a dodgy leg, but I had my tissues (see check list!) so that was fine.
Today, I am grateful for so much that Blogger would probably implode under the strain if I wrote it all down. On Thursday La Sereine, Ditzy and Summer Child are coming over for some of Claire's lovely cupcakes, and we are Wearing it Pink for breast cancer awareness. After all, there is more to life than exams, as I can now allow myself to appreciate! Thank you all for all your support. I'll keep you posted about the results, which should appear around the second week in December.
Charter for Compassion
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