Ugh....

There's a reason why in chick lit they conveniently skip over exams. Yes they say that they happen but they always seem to be over like 'that' in the life of our beautiful heroine. And of course she inevitably aces them. In reality there's a lot of waiting and hoping. I dislike exams intensely. I have 9 days on my calender cancelled out because I'm sitting exams on those days. It wouldn't be quite so bad except for the fact that I similarly have to cross out the day before for last minute cramming, and then the day after for recovery. So pretty much it just ends up meaning that I lose an entire month of my life to NZQA. Silliness!

It's not only the amount of time which I have to spend in a windowless room with a random stranger (30 hours) using up precious ink from my favorite pens (yes my favorite pen was a BNZ pen until it ran out in today's exam). It's the waiting. When you're studying then you inevitably reach a point when to study any more would most likely cause your brain to explode but to not study seems just plain wrong because your exam is so soon. There's those few annoying hours where I'm torn between cramming and chilling. I'm not a patient person and I quite simply just detest the waiting. That's the worst part about exams. After I have to wait for an entire year to sit them then afterwards there's that sickening feeling when the supervisor pulls your test papers away from your clammy hands and you know that next time you'll be seeing it then you'll know if every cue card, biological reference in ordinary conversation and mind numbingly dull article was worth it. It's quite simply rotten.

Exams seem like the perfect antagonist don't they. I mean who wouldn't want to read a story called 'Camilla vs NCEA level 3 and Scholarship Exams'. It's quite catchy. Yet I've never read a book about exams... It's because unfortunately they're terribly ordinary. The government dictates that everyone has to sit them. That means that they lose their horribleness because you really can't moan to anyone because they'll immediately say 'I sat exams and I dealt with them'. Even more unfortunate than the fact that you can't use this rotten experience as inspiration for a novel is the fact that there's very little sympathy considering there are kids in Africa who would love to have the right to an education so they could sit exams. Even so they're still silly.

3 Good Things
*Not having to think about Confidence Intervals, poisson distributions or the probability that a garden has tomatoes and peas in it given that it has tomatoes. I had my Stats exam today.
*Passionfruit yoyo's.... Fatty but GOOD.
*Skipping 250 skips. I love skipping and I can't believe how long it's been since I've picked up my faithful yellow skipping rope.