STUDY abroad

So after slacking off most of the study break week, it was finally time to buckle down. My first test was Nov. 1st, the first wednesday of finals and not only that but I had 2 finals scheduled for the same time. But don't worry Massey has a solution for that, it is like spending a day in prison, except worse because in prison I don't think they have finals. I had my Maori and Structural Kinesiology final. The tests were pretty intimidating at first but once I started studying I felt ok. All the practice tests were similar so I wasn't to worried once I could them. The Maori classes was the most stressful actually as the test just seemed like a lot of Maori vocab and since I didn't know hardly any vocab I was really worried, but after bit of studying and a great study group with my fellow Atawhai class members I felt pretty good about it. Kinesiology was a lot of information but I really started to understand better how to figure out what muscles do just based on where they are and which side of a bone they are on. It is pretty interesting, I think I like it a lot better then engineering. We actually had a pretty good time studying. Ema and I would pull out the couches from the common room and sit out in the sun and study. People we join us  and sometimes it would get a little unproductive but for the most part we learned a lot. Each night I would go to Ema's and study while she graded papers. It was so nice to have her to ask any questions or to review stuff with as I studied and I got a lot less distracted then I did when I studied at home. We did take a break one night and make a pumpkin...well actually Ema made the pumpkin pie while I studied and then we ate it at like 1am because that is when it was finally finished after making it from scratch. We didn't have all the spices but it was still really good.
So then the first day of reckoning came. I stayed up late and woke up early in typical college student cramming style and studied some more. I got put in a special room with a few other students with clashing exams. My kinesiology test was only 2 hours and when I flipped through it at the beginning I was excited because I know almost all of the answers. I finished in about an hour and so I had time to study for my next exam. After everyone finished their first exam we got escorted into a lounge area to eat lunch for 45 minutes then it was back to the same room to take our next exam. We weren't aloud to leave and they locked us in the building so if we did leave we couldn't get back in. It was intense. My second exam was Maori and during the first 10 minutes of reading time I flipped through all the multiple choice questions and felt great because I knew almost all of them and the essay questions were pretty much what I expected. So I finished that one quickly as well. It was a good feeling finishing 2 exams and feeling good about them.

Studying turned dance party-Brayden dancing

Alex also dancing

Studying?

Pumpkin pie by Ema!