Stressful day...

I can't believe that I finally have enough time to blog again!

The last months have probably been the most challenging that I have ever experienced when it comes to school life!
For all of you who did not yet get annoyed by me whining about the horrible exams I am now writing about it...

In German, all the themes were good. We could chose one out of three and I took the creative work on a book that we had to read in 13th grade.
There were three parts to it:

• 1st write a summery of the book. We had to write about a certain part of it as well and had to describe how the author characterized the main person in this part and why he did it in this way. The book is called "Irrungen, Wirrungen" (could be translated to something like: "Mistakes and confusion" I guess) and was written by Theodor Fontane in 1888. So it was the time of realism and Fontane critized the splitting up of the society in rich and poor, working and aristocratic people.
• The 2nd part was to write a letter as Lene, one of the leading characters of the book at the time right after the scene that we had to descibe in #1. We had to come up with the recipient (?) and the whole context of the letter - her feelings and the reasons for those, her situation at this time and the results that she draws out of those for her future life.
• In the 3rd and last part we had to explain, why we wrote what we wrote and why we wrote it in the way we did. That's actually not as bad as it sounds because knowing that this is going to be your task you can use all the rhetorical instruments that you know the names of in #2 and you can brag with you great knowledge about those in #3. I kinda like that!

So German went pretty good and I was excited and nervous at the same time when preparing for the maths test. I studies so hard, worked on all the exams of the past 7 years thinking that I knew everything afterwards. My good friend Nicole and I met the day before the test and we repeated everything. All the different tasks and what we would have to do was in our head. We went to bed and it was like a bad dream when we got the exam and held it in our hand for the first time. The analysis-part was really hard and different compared to the test that they had written before.
Our maths-teacher gave us a big smile and a thumb up before the exam but said afterwards that she was afraid of telling us before how hard it would be. Good decision. That way we didn't freak out before the test...
So maths was as bad as it could be and my plan of getting at least 12 out of 15 (which is a B+) for studying so much is thrown back to 7 credits or so (C-) ... This kicks me off my 1.5 grade at the end!

Well, then I thought I could just do good and better than I thought I would have to do on my economics exam to make up for the bad credits in maths and I did again study a lot!

The themes for this test were actually pretty good. It was seperated into 3 parts as well: business studies, accounting and actual economics (VWL translates to this I guess)

• The business studies-part had my favourite theme: general partnerships and credit raising.
• Accounting has always been the part of economics which I hated the most. But the theme was ok: contribution accounting (?) I practised that the most because I couldn't do it at first. Now I am glad I did as it was a big part of the exam...
• Now, for economics I didn't have enough time left. I spent three hours and 45 minutes out of 4,5 hours on the first two themes and did then end up having to hurry through my favourite part of the lessons... About 40 minutes couldn't ever be enough for this theme... I chose the monetary policy, inflation and deflation tasks and the questions weren't that hard but I did the most stupid mistakes being in a hurry.... Well, I guess that's life...

I am sure that I passed though and think that it is not going to be a lot worse than a 1.7 Abitur which is really good... But of course I would like to study education for German and English and the restrictions on those are at an NC of 1.5 right now... We will see...

I will still take the oral exam in English and I am not too worried about it ;-) I guess I will do ok, but I need to get some substance into my talking there- British history, the school systems of the US, GB and Germany, the slavery, the commonwealth, etc....
I am still going for a 15-points exam (A+) and my teacher told me that she would expect that from me as well... hihi

Well, I have been really busy studying and not sleeping a lot. I only went to church on sundays and not for any special events and stuff. I didn't get to see my friends form church more often either. It was a big challenge not just schoolwise but also faithwise... I kept cutting off time for God and took time for class... Looking back this was the stupidest thing to do!
God is awesome and wants to be with us especially during those times... This period of my life has taught me so much and I am thankful for having to go threw it, even though I hated it sooo much!

I want to especially thank those who have kept me and the rest of the "Prüflinge" in their prayers. Thanks April and Clint for being so understanding! Thanks Nicole for always studying with me and putting up with my stupid questions! I am excited to have wonderful friends like that...

Next time I will be back to normal and write about the fun things in life again... And I will be able to update more often as I will not be in school anymore.