Finally done with 2nd year~
I took my last final yesterday so I'm officially not a second-year student anymore! And for the first time in ages, I finally got to sleep well last night!! *throws confettis everywhere*
Yesterday morning, sister and I left home on time, more or less ready and motivated to take our last exam. We were supposed to arrive at uni a few minutes before it started but because trains here REALLY suck sometimes, we arrived...30 minutes late. Fortunately, since our uni is not strict about anything, the teacher let us take the exam but trust me, I really freaked out when the train driver announced that something was wrong and the train would be delayed. Seems like life decided to drive me crazy until the very end xD
More seriously, what a nerve-wracking year it has been...I seriously thought it would never end. During the first semester, my biggest worries were the overload of homework involving having to work in groups (Which is something I hate.), having to find professionals to interview, to write long reports or to do oral presentations among many other horrible things. Then there was the JLPT that I took in December, the fact that I had to find a place in Japan to do my internship this summer and finally, probably the most important, the 3rd year semester exchange program.
Apart from the fact that classes for the JLPT were on Saturday morning, which meant my only "break" was on Sunday, I wasn't too worried and pretty much nailed it. Also as I already wrote here, after countless sleepless nights and thanks to my sister, I'll be in Japan from July 10th to September 10th do my internship~
So the semester exchange program...If I remember well, 15 students applied for the exchange program in Japan, only 11 places were available and for me, it was unthinkable not to be chosen. I put a lot of pressure on myself because although my grades in Japanese and in English are far from being bad, I'm not exactly a genius when it comes to economics, American civilization and stuff like that and we were told that these grades from the first semester would be the ones to be more taken into account, and I knew the majority of the other students had better grades than me...
I did the best I could and in February, it was time for the individual interview with two of our Japanese teachers. I was the last person to pass that day and I was awfully stressed. Fortunately, probably because they like me they decided I deserve to go to Japan so from April 2015, I'll be a student of Osaka Prefecture University =D
Second semester! I had the worst schedule ever, then again we had an overload of homework involving long reports to write and many oral presentations, I took the TOEIC test in March (Got the best grade among the 28 students who sat the exam the same day~) and as if uni wasn't already crazy enough, I challenged myself with subbing a drama alone for the first time.
Maybe it was because of winter, but I got extremely tired both physically and mentally around February, to the point that I was on the verge of tears pretty much all the time. Like I would ride the train and suddenly feel like crying for no reason, or I couldn't sleep for days because I was scared of I didn't even know what. When I feel like that, I tend not to want to talk to anyone until I feel better, especially to persons I know because I don't want to bother them with my problems when I know they are happy (It's better not to have to deal with me when I'm grumpy anyway 8D) and I also tend to want to be depressed alone, which is something I obviously couldn't do that time since I had to work on SHARK. And by the way, SHARK and the boys also did a good job in making a mess of my poor mind x)
Anyways, everything is behind me now~ Results of the finals are in two weeks but I'm quite confident. My only worries now are to get ready for my Japan trip that starts in about 60 days and to catch up with all the videos I haven't watched yet. I don't even have to worry about finding a job because thanks to my manager sister, I should have 3 jobs in June and in July. But now that Johnny's are starting to announce their summer activities, I'm worried that even 3 jobs might not be enough xD
Yesterday morning, sister and I left home on time, more or less ready and motivated to take our last exam. We were supposed to arrive at uni a few minutes before it started but because trains here REALLY suck sometimes, we arrived...30 minutes late. Fortunately, since our uni is not strict about anything, the teacher let us take the exam but trust me, I really freaked out when the train driver announced that something was wrong and the train would be delayed. Seems like life decided to drive me crazy until the very end xD
More seriously, what a nerve-wracking year it has been...I seriously thought it would never end. During the first semester, my biggest worries were the overload of homework involving having to work in groups (Which is something I hate.), having to find professionals to interview, to write long reports or to do oral presentations among many other horrible things. Then there was the JLPT that I took in December, the fact that I had to find a place in Japan to do my internship this summer and finally, probably the most important, the 3rd year semester exchange program.
Apart from the fact that classes for the JLPT were on Saturday morning, which meant my only "break" was on Sunday, I wasn't too worried and pretty much nailed it. Also as I already wrote here, after countless sleepless nights and thanks to my sister, I'll be in Japan from July 10th to September 10th do my internship~
So the semester exchange program...If I remember well, 15 students applied for the exchange program in Japan, only 11 places were available and for me, it was unthinkable not to be chosen. I put a lot of pressure on myself because although my grades in Japanese and in English are far from being bad, I'm not exactly a genius when it comes to economics, American civilization and stuff like that and we were told that these grades from the first semester would be the ones to be more taken into account, and I knew the majority of the other students had better grades than me...
I did the best I could and in February, it was time for the individual interview with two of our Japanese teachers. I was the last person to pass that day and I was awfully stressed. Fortunately, probably because they like me they decided I deserve to go to Japan so from April 2015, I'll be a student of Osaka Prefecture University =D
Second semester! I had the worst schedule ever, then again we had an overload of homework involving long reports to write and many oral presentations, I took the TOEIC test in March (Got the best grade among the 28 students who sat the exam the same day~) and as if uni wasn't already crazy enough, I challenged myself with subbing a drama alone for the first time.
Maybe it was because of winter, but I got extremely tired both physically and mentally around February, to the point that I was on the verge of tears pretty much all the time. Like I would ride the train and suddenly feel like crying for no reason, or I couldn't sleep for days because I was scared of I didn't even know what. When I feel like that, I tend not to want to talk to anyone until I feel better, especially to persons I know because I don't want to bother them with my problems when I know they are happy (It's better not to have to deal with me when I'm grumpy anyway 8D) and I also tend to want to be depressed alone, which is something I obviously couldn't do that time since I had to work on SHARK. And by the way, SHARK and the boys also did a good job in making a mess of my poor mind x)
Anyways, everything is behind me now~ Results of the finals are in two weeks but I'm quite confident. My only worries now are to get ready for my Japan trip that starts in about 60 days and to catch up with all the videos I haven't watched yet. I don't even have to worry about finding a job because thanks to my manager sister, I should have 3 jobs in June and in July. But now that Johnny's are starting to announce their summer activities, I'm worried that even 3 jobs might not be enough xD