I woke up at early to go to the CLM to study with Michael before my Islamic Culture exams. We studied for a good hour and a half and other students joined us as well because we were sitting in the classroom. Then the time came when it was time to take the final.
I thought that the final was hard but pretty fair, for the most part. I knew a good chunk of the questions and made the rest up because it is 45% of my final grade and any partial credit helps. Then it was time for the midterm retake. What a joke that was! Impossibly hard, so hard that I even left some questions blank.
After class when I was talking to other students, they also said that the midterm was hard and they left questions unanswered, so it was comforting to know that I wasn't alone.
I sat in the hallway and hung out with Megan and one of her friends for the next 2.5 hours because we had our POE final together. I had Mila pack me a bocadillo because I didn't know how much time I would have between my exams and I didn't want to rush myself. We tried to study but we both thought that the POE final was going to be easy and we didn't study that much for it.
The test time came around and we were given the exam with a listening section. It was a little difficult because they talked so fast and they were at an outdoor party, so there was a lot of noise. On top of that, they were using the Andalusian accent, which is very difficult to understand because they cut their words short. Then we were given the written test which probably killed about 10 trees in the process of printing it. The test was a grammar test with a few things that we learned about in POE class, totally ridiculously unfair. I did my best but my hopes are not too high for that class anymore. Hopefully I pulled out a good grade.
After I finished up my POE final, I headed home to get ready for my intercambio with Lourdes today. I had to do my hair because we were going to take our pictures together today, so I had to look good for our memories! Claro.
Rachael and I then met up at Fuente de Batallas and sat on a bench and waited for Lourdes and Almudena. Lourdes had told me that they were going to be a little late. While we were waiting and talking, Lourdes came up behind me and scared the living daylight out of me! It was a good start to the intercambio ha.
We went to Smooy and got frozen yogurt with toppings and then sat there and hung out and talked about everything. Funniest part of the whole thing was when Lourdes and Asun were asking how you say "to go pee" in English and then "the other one". Too hilarious.
When we finished up our ice cream we walked to the walking bridge and took our pictures together there! They told us that you could see the Alhambra from the bridge, but the trees were in the way so we couldn't see them.
We then went to a park that was along the river, Parque de Salon, and walked for a bit. We then took some pictures together by setting up the camera on a ledge and self timering it.
After this, Almudena left because she lived near there so we said our see ya laters and went our own ways. When we walked away, I was telling Lourdes that it was weird to say goodbye to someone because it feels like we are going to see them again very soon, but it really could be a while.
Almudena and Lourdes are trying to find jobs so they can come to America one day and visit us :) But patience is key.
We then walked home and said goodbye to Lourdes. I am really going to miss her because we got along so well and have so much in common. Today I also learned that her family owns a huge butchering business and she helps out in the summer, which is funny because I work in the meat department in Green Bay and in Winona! I wish that I could've met up with Lourdes more times but duty calls, and that duty is studying for her exam.
When we got home, we studied for a bit and then ate dinner and studied some more. We tried to study the whole night but it was impossible because we were both really tired and exhausted from the day.
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