I’m writing this blog post as a warm-up exercise to finishing my final Senegalese Society and Culture paper en français. Last week I took a two-part French final: the first was a comprehension exam with lots of information hidden in sidebars and the second was a ridiculously easy grammar test which made us all feel like we had wasted our time sitting in class. I also handed in my final history paper with neither pomp nor circumstance. Yesterday, I took my Wolof oral and written exams. This past weekend, I had heard several other students saying that their final would just be three paragraphs – one in the past, one in the present, and one in the future. Our exam had the same questions – at the end of four pages of grammar exercises! My professor was very willing to help us along though and it went fine. I had reviewed my phonetics packet for French and just read the 40 three to four word phrases aloud with no trouble. Tomorrow, our Public Health class is analyzing the data we collected to determine how much and what kind of malnutrition, if any, is present in the village.
Final exams also mean teacher evaluations! I’ve been lucky enough to only have one professor merit a truly bad evaluation from me – the rest were either all excellent or just good enough. This semester, however, I was very open and honest about issues that needed to be addressed. Exams also mean goodbyes and I’m attending a goodbye dinner tonight. Tomorrow we have final housing meetings and a Reintegration seminar. Contrary to popular belief, final exams do not necessarily mean concentrated studying. Jen and I had reviewed during our road trips and during downtime this weekend and felt perfectly justified in taking yesterday afternoon off to hang out in my room eating ceebu jen, talking about our lives, and taking pictures with my grooming mitt.
Edit: The paper is now 2/3 of the way done and not due until Friday!
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