Midterms and Week Vacation
2006-10-19
Midterms and Week Vacation!
With midterms this week has been among the most stressful any of us have had here. (Although I barely studied and read two books over the past 3 days: The Secret Life of Bees and then Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger.) However, the midterms for the regular classes were a breeze. Most of the professors here do not speak perfect English by any stretch of the imagination and are grading our long essay tests. I wonder if they use a dictionary to look up some of our words.
The Italian midterm was simple and my other midterms (ethics, public relations and anthropology) only required studying for the overall concepts so I could form short answers. I have one more to go, History of the Italian Renaissance, and since it is true/false and multiple choice I hope to do okay. I am just ready to celebrate the midterms being over and leave tomorrow morning for my week vacation.
Tomorrow I am leaving with Zena, Mckenzie, Ashley, Katie and Kate for our trip over week break. I cannot believe we are leaving tomorrow morning! We will be flying out of Pisa tomorrow morning to go to Frankfurt, Germany. We will then take a train to Cologne, which is supposed to be breathtaking. We will stay there a night and then take a train to Brussels, Belgium. We will stay there a night and then head to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After spending the night there we will leave the next evening on an overnight train (hopefully, if we can book one) for Copenhagen, Denmark. After spending a night there we will take another overnight train to Munich, Germany (where Ashley studied abroad this summer.) Then we will head to Vienna, Austria for a night followed by Budapest, Hungary for a few hours before we take an overnight to head back home next Sunday morning exhausted.
We found out that it requires an additional supplement to travel by eurail in Poland, Croatia, Slovania and the Czech Republic. I was looking forward to Auschwitz and Prague, but I guess you cannot do everything. We all purchased flexipasses for 10 days of travel on trains within a 2-month timespan. Of course we will use the entire thing up on this 10-day tour of 6 countries, but that is fine with me.
I am glad this past week is almost over with all the studying. There were a few good points. We had a roommate dinner and made chicken spaghetti. American food is a big deal for us now. I received my first piece of mail from Hunter. I have been planning my schedule for Baylor next year and Mckenzie, Ashley and I will be registering in Munich during our crazy trip. This will be interesting.
As a sidenote, I have had stories published for the American Florentine newspaper online. You can read the newspaper here.
Midterms and Week Vacation!
With midterms this week has been among the most stressful any of us have had here. (Although I barely studied and read two books over the past 3 days: The Secret Life of Bees and then Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger.) However, the midterms for the regular classes were a breeze. Most of the professors here do not speak perfect English by any stretch of the imagination and are grading our long essay tests. I wonder if they use a dictionary to look up some of our words.
The Italian midterm was simple and my other midterms (ethics, public relations and anthropology) only required studying for the overall concepts so I could form short answers. I have one more to go, History of the Italian Renaissance, and since it is true/false and multiple choice I hope to do okay. I am just ready to celebrate the midterms being over and leave tomorrow morning for my week vacation.
Tomorrow I am leaving with Zena, Mckenzie, Ashley, Katie and Kate for our trip over week break. I cannot believe we are leaving tomorrow morning! We will be flying out of Pisa tomorrow morning to go to Frankfurt, Germany. We will then take a train to Cologne, which is supposed to be breathtaking. We will stay there a night and then take a train to Brussels, Belgium. We will stay there a night and then head to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After spending the night there we will leave the next evening on an overnight train (hopefully, if we can book one) for Copenhagen, Denmark. After spending a night there we will take another overnight train to Munich, Germany (where Ashley studied abroad this summer.) Then we will head to Vienna, Austria for a night followed by Budapest, Hungary for a few hours before we take an overnight to head back home next Sunday morning exhausted.
We found out that it requires an additional supplement to travel by eurail in Poland, Croatia, Slovania and the Czech Republic. I was looking forward to Auschwitz and Prague, but I guess you cannot do everything. We all purchased flexipasses for 10 days of travel on trains within a 2-month timespan. Of course we will use the entire thing up on this 10-day tour of 6 countries, but that is fine with me.
I am glad this past week is almost over with all the studying. There were a few good points. We had a roommate dinner and made chicken spaghetti. American food is a big deal for us now. I received my first piece of mail from Hunter. I have been planning my schedule for Baylor next year and Mckenzie, Ashley and I will be registering in Munich during our crazy trip. This will be interesting.
As a sidenote, I have had stories published for the American Florentine newspaper online. You can read the newspaper here.
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