One more week!

Last Friday marked the end of our first exams, and I am now looking forward to a round trip in Europe to celebrate my Christmas. However, I still have one more week of class work before I can finally take that well deserved break off the books.  It was one of the toughest weeks ever, waking up early to revise and prepare for four exams all done on the same day. This was a new experience to me as back home we could only sit for a maximum of two exams in one day; so sitting for four exams with only fifteen minutes break between the subsequent papers was more of a torture to me.

It is always a common practice among students to ask how the exams were right after sitting for the paper. I have never found the correct answer for that question as I imagine that, my performance will be determined by the final grade. Anyway, this week I have learnt that you can never be fully prepared for exams. No matter how well you prepare, you will always be nervous and I consider that a sign of having just the correct dose of confidence, you don’t want to walk in to an exams room feeling overconfident just for you to be frustrated by the exams.  Now its time to equate the term exams with xmass and the good thing is that you don’t have to revise for it but have to prepare your bags.

However, before I can pack my bags for a trip around Europe I still have to contend with one week’s course on marine monitoring and GiS coupled with a presentation on our respective country’s monitoring system. I would have expected that right after the exams we would have the break, but surprisingly enough we have to sit for one more. The positive thing about this course is that it’s a totally new field to me, and therefore I am very eager to learn more about it is as it’s a very critical part for my future career.  In addition, the course is being offered at Vechta University and that means commuting daily for the entire week, and you cannot afford to miss the 7:20 am train.

Finally, this week we are scheduled to have the DAAD meeting on the 15^th, this is going to be our second encounter but the first away from home.  I hope that it is going to be exciting meeting other students in Bremen and the officials, for apart from my colleagues in class I have not met other scholarship holders in Bremen. It is the final week before Christmas the season of giving and to be jolly I hope that it’s going to be a jolly week, don’t you?