University and Slovakia..
For those people who care, especially irl friends, I want to announce the biggie big news that I will stay here in Slovakia forever.
It started with my International Baccalaureate Swiss Diploma, it was accepted here, but under one condition. I just have to pass a Slovak oral exam about literature that I haven't learned (Realism, Literature between the two world wars and Literature after 1945). I actually panicked at first, because after International Baccalaureate, if I get the graduation and the diploma, I should be able to get to any university in the world.....except Slovakia of course. And I still had to write acceptance exams to university here. Our typical Slovak system.
AT LEAST they took it in and I didn't have to write any "doplnujuce skusky" (or complement exams?) of Chemistry, Physics and whatever. THANK GOD. Just the Slovak oral exam.
So my semester in college ended in May, went here to Slovakia. I have studied like a nerd to being accepted to university and do the Slovak maturity exam.
My university exams were horrible. As much as I learned for math, I still got a 0, BUT my English and German exams were very good. My sister said: "Fuck that, you will be accepted, because the Math exams are ALWAYS hard."
And she was right. They took me in. Either it was my "good" English and German that did it, or the people were "surprised" with my diploma (not the usual Slovak one) that somebody from IB graduated. Who knows. Doesn't matter now, since the main thing is that I was accepted.
My Slovak exam was now this Tuesday, 28th of June. So I came there to the school to take that oral exam and I was done after like....5 minutes? It was pretty quick and I talked and talked despite my poor Slovak. The teachers knew I have a different accent and that I am having problems with some syntax and so on. They didn't really care about that (though they had some giggles XD), they cared about what I knew. After I was done, they were super surprised at how much I have studied and said that my oral was BETTER than ANY of the people who graduated this year. I was like....wow....REALLY? D:
Seriously, it may be not much, but it is a really big accomplishment to me. Being a nerd pays out I guess :D
So now that I have been accepted to to university and also graduated from Slovak with a beautiful 1, I have decided that I will stay here forever. Which means I won't stay with my dad until February 2012 like I planned to. If I would have, I would have been one whole semester without education, DONOTWANT. I really love to educate myself to be honest....and I pretty much enjoy school. IB was super hard and so much work with countless nights without sleep, but I feel extremely happy and so...special? Accomplished? You probably know what I mean C:
At one point, it makes me sad I will go, because even though some Americans are....hm, super weird (duh, different culture, no wonder I don't understand their sense of humor, etc.), I got so used to living there that I will miss it. The same happened when I was living in Germany, I came, I went, while I felt so happy there that I felt bad for going back to Slovakia (even though I was bullied by German kids). So yeah. Another country I will have to leave. I will my the dogs that I was walking every workday, I will miss the Gamestops, I will miss some frozen yoghurt, and foremost, I will miss my friends there. I am incredibly happy internet exists. Contact with them would be so much harder.
So as much as I will feel kinda nostalgic in the future, I decided that I will just go ahead and go to university and stay here for real, as much as it both makes me happy, but also sad.
Spreading happiness and love! <3
Now I have 2 and half months of vacation, NOMNOM! <33333
The things I am most looking forward to atm is going to Sweden and see my closest internet friend. Oh, I just CAN'T WAIT!!! 10 more days and there I go by plane! <33333
TL;DR: I am staying here in Slovakia for real, because I graduated from Slovak and was accepted to university! <333
It started with my International Baccalaureate Swiss Diploma, it was accepted here, but under one condition. I just have to pass a Slovak oral exam about literature that I haven't learned (Realism, Literature between the two world wars and Literature after 1945). I actually panicked at first, because after International Baccalaureate, if I get the graduation and the diploma, I should be able to get to any university in the world.....except Slovakia of course. And I still had to write acceptance exams to university here. Our typical Slovak system.
AT LEAST they took it in and I didn't have to write any "doplnujuce skusky" (or complement exams?) of Chemistry, Physics and whatever. THANK GOD. Just the Slovak oral exam.
So my semester in college ended in May, went here to Slovakia. I have studied like a nerd to being accepted to university and do the Slovak maturity exam.
My university exams were horrible. As much as I learned for math, I still got a 0, BUT my English and German exams were very good. My sister said: "Fuck that, you will be accepted, because the Math exams are ALWAYS hard."
And she was right. They took me in. Either it was my "good" English and German that did it, or the people were "surprised" with my diploma (not the usual Slovak one) that somebody from IB graduated. Who knows. Doesn't matter now, since the main thing is that I was accepted.
My Slovak exam was now this Tuesday, 28th of June. So I came there to the school to take that oral exam and I was done after like....5 minutes? It was pretty quick and I talked and talked despite my poor Slovak. The teachers knew I have a different accent and that I am having problems with some syntax and so on. They didn't really care about that (though they had some giggles XD), they cared about what I knew. After I was done, they were super surprised at how much I have studied and said that my oral was BETTER than ANY of the people who graduated this year. I was like....wow....REALLY? D:
Seriously, it may be not much, but it is a really big accomplishment to me. Being a nerd pays out I guess :D
So now that I have been accepted to to university and also graduated from Slovak with a beautiful 1, I have decided that I will stay here forever. Which means I won't stay with my dad until February 2012 like I planned to. If I would have, I would have been one whole semester without education, DONOTWANT. I really love to educate myself to be honest....and I pretty much enjoy school. IB was super hard and so much work with countless nights without sleep, but I feel extremely happy and so...special? Accomplished? You probably know what I mean C:
At one point, it makes me sad I will go, because even though some Americans are....hm, super weird (duh, different culture, no wonder I don't understand their sense of humor, etc.), I got so used to living there that I will miss it. The same happened when I was living in Germany, I came, I went, while I felt so happy there that I felt bad for going back to Slovakia (even though I was bullied by German kids). So yeah. Another country I will have to leave. I will my the dogs that I was walking every workday, I will miss the Gamestops, I will miss some frozen yoghurt, and foremost, I will miss my friends there. I am incredibly happy internet exists. Contact with them would be so much harder.
So as much as I will feel kinda nostalgic in the future, I decided that I will just go ahead and go to university and stay here for real, as much as it both makes me happy, but also sad.
Spreading happiness and love! <3
Now I have 2 and half months of vacation, NOMNOM! <33333
The things I am most looking forward to atm is going to Sweden and see my closest internet friend. Oh, I just CAN'T WAIT!!! 10 more days and there I go by plane! <33333
TL;DR: I am staying here in Slovakia for real, because I graduated from Slovak and was accepted to university! <333