School was officially over for me since last Friday. Finals week wasn't as aggravating as usual, I was actually relaxing already last week because we've already finished everything, well, barely.
The previous weeks were really a challenge for me. I've experience a lot of stress, physical, mental and of course emotional stress.
It started on the last week of February where in we're preparing for the final event speech for our finals in CA 104. My group (Sue, Abbey, Kitel) worked hard for setting up the place and everything. We have to finish a lot of things before the actual day and yes, we were cramming. Sue and I edited the videos we used and then we started working on our props etc. In the end, we did great and got the highest mark :)
Another is that we weren't done with our thesis for Filipino and none of us (Me, Kitel, Sue, Abbey) had the initiative to work on it. It's such a complete bore and we feel too tired or whatsoever and I was starting to get pressured because of all the paper works that's been piling up.
We also had this final paper in Philosophy where in you'll read an inspirational book and write a paper about it's impact on you. I was planning to re-read 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho but I was too lazy to borrow the book from Jasper so I decided to work on Mitch Albom's '5 people you meet in heaven'. I read it again while I was in Bo's Coffee on a Saturday afternoon and after I went home I immediately worked on my paper so that the thought won't go away.
So practically I was done with 3 final exams (CA104, PE, Philosophy) and I have still have 5 left.
Second week of March and the pressure is really getting to me. Our assigned embassy hasn't confirmed yet for an interview as our finals in CA105 and I still have this long test in Physical Science to determine if I would be exempted for our final exams and an oral exam in Philippine Literature.
March 3 passed and I was done with the long test in physical science but I still have some finals for Philippine Literature the next day. I wasn't really that worried for the final exam in Philippine Lit because I've been participating in Ms. Yap's class since day 1 and I would always read our homeworks and work hard for whatever activity there is. It was actually an oral exam and she just asked me about some random questions from the story and what's my stand for a particular character. In the end, I got a 4.5 :) (that's like 95-97 i think?)
After that glorious moment, I just found out that the Malaysian Embassy emailed me for the confirmation of our interview.
This interview got a very long story. To begin with, we (Sue and Nish) were originally assigned to interview the Ambassador of UAE but they keep on saying "We'll call you" and I was starting to get the feeling that we need to contact other embassies. We emailed the French, British and Malayan Embassy. The British Embassy called me last March 8 saying that I should just wait for the confirmation of this guy (i forgot his name) but it never came. It's a good thing Malaysian embassy accommodated us. But we had a problem before this. It's the same time as our thesis defense in Filipino.
I called my groupmates and told them the situation and Sue asked me to text our professor first before I reply to the email. I was frustrated because Ms. de lara wasn't replying to any of my texts and phone calls. And it seems that I was the only one in our group who was giving a shit about contacting our professor. Of course I wanted to pursue with the interview but at the same time, it would cost us our thesis defense. According to our professor, she won't let anyone postpone any presentation that's why we had some second thoughts. I was crying my heart and eyes out because i couldn't contact de Lara. Some of my friends told me to continue with the interview even if it would cost me our thesis defense because the embassy interview is my final exam for a major subject. I was pissed actually to both of my group mates because I felt that I was the only one who's doing the talking and contacting the embassies. So I cried and cried and I feel so pathetic because it seems like all the stress and pressure I've been feeling started to sink in to me and I just have to cry it out.
Yes. I had an emotional breakdown.
Anyway, I pursued the interview and just asked Ms. De lara personally that we're doing an interview as a final exam and she has to postpone our group's defense. She said yes and so we went to the Malaysian Embassy.
The interview went smoothly until when we went down, the earthquake in Japan. We wondered why there was so many people in the lobby and my went straight to the TV. A magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit japan and 2 tsunamis hit the coast of Sendai :(
When we got back to Katipunan, Abbey texted us that we got exempted for the finals in Physical Sciences.
It was such a bitter sweet day.
The third week of March was finals week and we're almost done with everything.
Our thesis was finally done and so as our paper works for CA 105.
What a semester, so now I will reward myself some decent sleep. :)
