This week totally threw me off any internal clock I had whatsoever and now I just feel confused. I guess that's what an entire week of studying during the day (all day, every day) and staying out late with friends will do to you. The restaurant also just hired about a boatload of fresh blood, I mean employees, to start working, so they've been letting me go ridiculous early, or just telling me not to come in, every day this week. Normally this would be nice, but of course now when I get sent home early I have this huge struggle of, should I stay in and study, or see if other people are doing something fun since I've already spent all day studying? Ah the woes of swot vac week.
One of the highlights of my week has got to be Thursday night, where I cut my studying short at around 9 and went out with some guy friends to a backpacker's bar for Trivia night! Lucky for us, a lot of the questions happened to be kind of sciency, and having two engineering majors and me being bio/chem, we kicked butt and won! We won 50 dollars, and had the chance to win 500 dollars if we answered a bonus question, but like always, the question was extremely hard and we couldn't get it. We definitely walked out of there with our heads held high though!
Now with 4 days to go until my first exam, I'm feeling slightly more confident every day. It definitely helps to meet up with some people from the subject and go over everything – especially since I've gotten minimal feedback on how well I understand the material so I could be thinking I understand something and really be totally lost. I just can't wait until this Friday (at exactly 4pm) when I will be done!!! Then I just have a weekend of work (where at this rate, I won't even be coming in anyway), and then I'll have the rest of the two weeks to do whatever I want! It still terrifies me that I only have 3 weeks left as of today, but I'm still with mixed emotions. As excited as I am to be home again, I know I'll probably start crying when I have to leave Melbourne and certain people. I even started getting nostalgic as I looked around my sketchy projects-like neighbourhood and remembered how nervous I was when I first got here. Has 5 months really gone by already? Everyone who still has more than 3 weeks left, savour it!!
Aww, Kara! I know exactly what you mean about being so sad to go back to the US. When November hit, I felt like someone had punched me in the gut... the semester is going by way too quickly! But don't worry, these friendships last a life time and you will always have these memories! :)
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