Hey hey!
We’re about halfway through our semester here in Granada, and midterm season is upon us. It’s a little daunting thinking about having to take midterm exams in another language, but I think that as long as I know the material, I’ll be fine.
I had my midterm exam for my Spanish class earlier this week, and I was super nervous going into it. I knew that I had done everything that I could have to prepare, so I was hoping that it was enough.
I walked out of the exam thinking that it either went super well or I completely failed it.
There were parts of the exam that I felt really confident in my answers and others that I felt like I had no clue what I was doing or what the answer was.
Our professor put our exam grades in Moodle earlier today, and I ended up with an 89%, which I’m super happy with. Hopefully, my other two exams go as well as Spanish.
The two other midterms on my docket are for my religion class and my government class, both of which are having in-class exams.
I’m most nervous about the religion midterm, just because there are so many types of questions that could be asked, and I don’t know that I’ll be able to both remember everything and then also translate it into Spanish to answer the questions.
I’m not that nervous about my government midterm since it’s open notes, open class materials and open internet. As long as we don’t use AI, we have free access to anything.
We’re answering two essay questions, and we are allowed open notes because our professor wants to test our critical thinking skills more than our memorization skills.
The only other interesting things happening right now are some of the traveling I’ve done and that I have coming up. A few weekends ago now I visited Sevilla for two days and one night, a quick but very fun trip.
One of my friends from Wofford is studying abroad in Sevilla this semester, and I was able to see him and hang out with him and his friends. His friend group is super sweet and fun to be around, and we spent a lot of the night bar hopping and walking around Sevilla.
It was a fun weekend and I loved Sevilla as a city, but after visiting it, I think that Granada was a better choice for a place for me to study abroad for the semester.
Granada feels more quaint, and you see more of the same people. It’s easier to form connections with people.
Sevilla is the last place that I’ve traveled to, but I have a four-day trip to Rome coming up in two weekends, which I’m excited about since I’ve never been to Rome before. It’s also going to be my first solo trip this semester, which is a little nerve-racking, but it’ll also allow me to learn how to travel here solo.
That’s all that I have right now in the form of updates and new things happening here abroad.
I’ll keep y’all updated.
Hasta luego!
