One week to go...

I intended to write this post already last night, but somehow I got stuck with "The Great Gatsby" and in the end I switched off the light at half past one. Anyway, next week the oral exams start and I am not sure what to think about them. I find it quite hard to work for them, I seem to lack motivation.

I spent the Easter holidays at my parent's and at my brother's house, as I wanted to see Natalie. Unfortunately I also spent a week and a half in bed with a bad cold. No wonder that after the whole written exams affair my body longed for a "decent" break. Shanie (my car) was also ill - he lost his exhaust pipe. But I had a good time nevertheless.

Now I try to prepare for my oral exams. I come to the conclusion that I hate "Mrs Dalloway" and "The Scarlett Letter", I also hate "Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads"! I just hope I am not asked any questions on these three books - out of 15 on my general reading list. For my literature exam I also have two main topics: "Master Detectives - Master Criminals: Poe, Doyle, Chesterton and Christie" and "Alternative History Plays: Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond and T.S. Eliot"

But my first exam next week is "Language Accquisition", which means I have to read out loud a few lines of an unknown text, then they will definitely ask me the 5 vocabulary items I have no clue about what they mean and then they will ask me grammar questions, like: Okay, this is taken from a student's exam paper. Where is the mistake and how do you explain the student what is wrong and how to improve next time.

I will let you know how things go. At the moment I try to get through Macbeth, which is nice enough, but I HATE SHAKESPEARE!