TESTS

The season of the tests are upon us, here in Deutschland.

     November is the season of tests, although some leak into December as well. Don't get me wrong, there are quizzes pretty often (even though I would say not as often as in my old school), but these tests are different. They are two hours long and are worth most of your grade (I think). The first test I had was in English. That went pretty well... obviously. I received a "1" which is the highest grade. Then... I had Erdkunde, which is a long geography with weather mixed in and such. I am not quite certain. That was... not so good. Luckily I haven't gotten my grade back yet. Then was Biology, German, and then today I took the Math test.
     Biology was probably the worst test so far. I hadn't studied for the test so much because, to be honest, I really hate biology. But I did study a little bit. I got to the test and didn't not understand it at all. There were things I had never seen in our class before! I pushed through it and was able to complete a few of the problems, but I ran out of things to do. Then I started looking through all of the cool tips in my dictionary. Picture this-- a foreign exchange student taking a very important test. She is hunched over her dictionary flipping through the pages not writing anything. My teacher thought I was so flustered with the language that I just gave up... whoops. She came up to me and told me that I could just write the test in English if I wanted to. While she was trying to be nice, that honestly doesn't help at all. If I am supposed to write in English, then I would have to learn the material in English! How I am I suppose to write a test, when I sat through the class in German! The point is that I didn't learn all of the information in class because it was in a different language and therefore I can't pick up all of it. It is not helpful for me to write in English...
    In my German test I only got through one of the two questions, but I think it was okay. It took so long to write because I had to look up so many words in my German dictionary. But I feel good about that test because I actually understood the text that we received. :)
    Math was really good today, but I had forgotten how to do a really easy problem and then remembered as soon as I had turned it in. :)
    Otherwise all is good. I am going to try and celebrate Thanksgiving a little bit on Thursday and Friday. My awesome mom sent me some stove-top stuffing to make, which I will make on Wednesday, and then I will make pumpkin pie on Thursday! :) Hopefully my host family likes it! Okay all, that is it for now!

Beth