Sunday, July 08, 2007

No more writing!

The wrriten Masters exams are done! Second day went about as well as the first, I rocked the first question, because I knew the book very well and also because it was the book we read and discussed last week in my Spanish Romanticism class! So after writing 3 1/2 pages on that, I moved onto the second question. Luck would have it that the second day the two latin-american lit questions were over books I had not gotten to on the list. But, knowing this the night before, I looked up some of them online and found lots of useful information. There was one author I couldn't find and one I could only find general info about, not really anything about the work of his that was on the list. Which two authors show up on the test? You guessed it. BUT--the wheel of fortune keeps spinning and one question was "Talk about the general aspects of Emilio Carballido's work and what makes it stand out". This was the author I could only find general information on, and the question was asking for general information! I threw in a couple examples from his one play on the reading list that I was able to find and wrote what I could.
So given that it is a pass/fail exam, I would say I passed. But I guess we will see when the results are posted later this week.
After the test, a bunch of us started drinking at a bar near the campus here in Madrid. It was about 11:45 when I started there, then we moved downtown around 4:30. I got home around midnight, because we called it a night early, thinking that 12 hours of straight drinking was good enough.
Today I am reading a play for class tomorrow and working on the presentation I have to give over it. I also plan on going out this afternoon somewhere to watch Rafael Nadal in the final of Wimbledon. ¡Vamos, Rafa!

1 comment:

MadridMan said...

Rafa played a REALLY GOOD match against Roger in the Wimbledon final. Hope you got to see it. Too bad you didn't ring me up - we could've watched it together. Too bad we won't see you at "The Lunch" on Monday. Maybe next time - but BEFORE you head back home.

Congratulations on completing your written exams! Best of luck on the oral one on Monday.

Saludos, MadridMan