Thursday, June 1, 2006

Exams are finally finished!

Well, I survived my last two exams on Monday (Scotland Since 1850: Empire to Devolution) and Tuesday (Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century). I started to slip into an ‘I don’t care’ mode, so it’s probably best that I’m done with them. One interesting thing to relate is that for my Scotland exam, I decided that I really didn’t want to study for it, so instead I simply chose three questions from past exams and only studied enough to answer those questions, and if they didn’t show up then oh well. When I was in the exam room and turned over the paper, I nearly had a heart attack when I realized that all three of those exact same questions were on there! Needless to say, I think I rocked my Scotland exam! Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for my Britain and Ireland exam. I finally lost any motivation that I ever had, and by the time the exam rolled around at noon on Tuesday, I had studied for a maximum of 1 ½ hours…not too great of a decision on my part. When I glanced at the question sheet in the exam room, there’s only one word that went through my mind, and as it’s not nice, I’ll refrain from displaying it here. Consequently, what followed were two of the longest hours of my life. In the end, I think I ended up padding my questions sufficiently enough that I think I squeaked by. I’ll just have to wait and see, won’t I.

Well, after the horrors of my first four British exams ever, I decided that I needed to spend copious amounts of time down the pub, which is just what I did. Kirstin and I headed to the pub at around 8pm on Tuesday and I didn’t get home until after closing. Mmm, alcohol. I paid the price on Wednesday, however, and hardly moved throughout the day. I did have to make myself do laundry and pack sometime after 5pm though, because Kirstin and I were moving into our flat on Thursday. What a chore that turned out to be! I didn’t think I had that much stuff, having just arrived a few months prior, but boy did I turn out to be wrong. I filled my two suitcases and numerous bags.

At noon on Thursday (today) I took the bus into the city with a bag or two to collect our keys from the landlady (as Kirstin was working, I was the sole representative). I took numerous pictures, which I have listed below. After surveying the flat (it had been a month or so since I had last looked at it when we signed the lease) I headed back to the bus stop to go back to Hillhead and grab another load of my stuff. After stowing this new load in the flat, I again returned to Hillhead to collect the last of my possessions and to turn in my room key to the central building. I returned to the flat for the third time disheveled, hot and sweaty-not a pretty picture. Eventually, Kirstin arrived in her friend’s car (this is how she moved her stuff…in the end she managed to fill two different cars with all of her junk!) and I went down to collect my last piece of luggage (I had packed my biggest suitcase so full that there was so way that I could have lifted it onto the bus) and pull it up two flights of steps. I was so weary by midday that all I wanted to do was pass out on the couch, but I managed enough motivation to unpack everything, make my bed and generally make my room livable.

Kirstin went off to a birthday party of one of her mates, but came back early and surprised me with Chinese takeout, which we promptly devoured. We watched a DVD and generally had a good first night as roommates. Unfortunately, I had to excuse myself and go pack at midnight. That’s right, after all the unpacking I had just done, I now had to open up my luggage and insert a bunch of stuff back into it…talk about irony! The reason for this is because I had changed my flight date to Friday, June 2. There are a few reasons whey I did this, but I don’t really feel like going into them at the moment, so suffice it to say that I would now be arriving in Minneapolis on Friday. As my taxi will be arriving at 7:15am tomorrow morning, I must bid adieu and go to bed.

Flat pictures:

Kirstin’s bedroom 1 My room 1 Living room 1 Kitchen 2

Kirstin’s bedroom 2 My room 2 Living room 2 Kitchen 3

Bathroom Utility closet Kitchen 1

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