so so SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO angry about my last exam.
well it's not my last exam because i'm having to retake it.
apparently i learned well, and know lots of things, but i memorized too much and don't actually 'understand' things in relation to 'everything else'. he said my problem was that i thought i knew things...
excuse me ?

he also mentioned something about exchanged students expecting to get great grades automatically and that he could tell i expected to do well.
i mean, anyone that knows me know i don't blow off exams, and i definitely didn't with this one. But I've never taken a worse exam It wasn't that i hadn't prepared, but rather that the questions just plain didn't make sense and the professor wasn't willing to clarify. when i asked him to rephrase, he replied more than once (in german) 'it is clear that you don't know so we are moving on'.

at least i get to retake the darn thing...unfortunately again with him. so fingers crossed that the large stick up his butt doesn't put a glaring blemish on my academic record.

thanks for pooping on my vacation prof.


and the funny thing is, this was supposed to be my EASY exam!


oh, and i leave for london/amsterdam tomorrow for the next week so that means no becky for a week and pictures in a week :)... probably



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so i'm studying now (again) to prepare some more before i leave berlin, and i keep finding errors in what the professor asked me! arrrrg

ein bisschen krank :(

All these exams have taken a toll on my health. I've been kinda sick for the past 2 days.
Exams have been INTENSE though. I have 2 more, so I'm almost done and then off to London and Amsterdam!
Yesterday I took my Mikrobiology Praktikum exam and it was quite difficult. Afterwards a friend came over and we split a beer. THen emilia and i met for coffee in Hackescher Markt. We had wanted to go to the Cinema Kneipe but it was totally full with a waiting line so we ended up going to the Starbucks nextdoor. Still good just to chat and relax. Then directly after a friend and i went to eat some sri-lanken food. Sooooooo goood.
Today emilia, jean-marc and i went to the turkische markt to buy some cheap fruit and vegetables. The weather was really miserable though and i was not in a super great mood because i was feeling sick, like body aching, difficult to breath and think sick. But afterwards we went to the best falafel in berlin where they ate falafel and I ate some soup. we topped it off with some mate. it took wayyyyyyyy longer than usual however, because there were people in front of us who bought food for i think all of berlin. the problem was is that they didn't call before to make the order and it's only one old lady running the place. i felt really bad for her because it was really crazy and took a really long time. I didn't mind all that much and felt way better after sitting for a long time and sipping mate.
I still feel sick but i'm gonna go out a LITTLE bit tonight just because Emilia is heading back to Poland for the next month on monday, so i wanna spend some time with her before then. I'm just gonna take it really easy. Plus i just got up from like a 4 hour nap so that helped a bit. :)

let's hope the rest of my exams go well, but i do say, it's REALLY difficult studying while sick, my brain just doesn't work.

some photos!

friday:
i had my Genetik exam, it was pretty difficult but I knew most things so that was good.
directly afterwards emilia and i went to KuDamm to shop a bit. I haven't been shopping for quite a few months. now that my scholarship is over i can REALLLLLLLY see my money go fast, so i spend it only on food and 'cultural' things pretty much.
so it was nice to treat myself a bit but i'm gonna have to save now!

then pretty much directly after that Gui, Esther Jean-Marc and I went to see the Berliner Philharmoniker. Really great as usual. There was a japanese pianist who was nuts.

directly after the philharmonic we headed back to siegmunds hof where we threw Gui a big going away party. The theme was 'Berliner-Punk' so i sported my pleather leggings, pleather jacket, black nailpolish and some stylin' black lipstick. it was tons of fun to say the least.

Saturday:
I was sooo pooped from the following day that i took it really easy, I went to Friedrichstraße and ate at an italien restaurant for the 'Happy Hour Special' where the food was way cheaper :)
took some pictures on the HUGE bench outside of a concerthall/playhouse that i forgot the name of.
later that night i got some deliciouuuuuuus, sooo tasty falafel in Friedrichshain and then watched Borat.

Today: I headed over to potsdamer platzt to pick up my Berlinale Film Festival tickts. it's snowing now! it's actualy not really cold, it's just snowing a lot. it's pretty but i'm ready to see the sun again.
but tonight at 11pm i'm seeing a french film for the Berlinale Film Fest. It's not at the red carpet
(those tickets were sold out :( ) but there still is A red carpet so that's cool. There were tons of celebrities in Berlin for the past week because of this festival. Because of my exams i havne't gone out to see any of them. But it will be nice to see a film from the festival.

haven't had time to take any pictures
just been studying pretty much all of the time
this weekend i'm going to see the philharmonic again, throw an abscheids (going away) party for a friend and go see a film at the Berlinale Film Festival

haven't had time to really look into housing for spring or a praktikum for summer, but i'm hoping that all falls into place soon. but i'm soooo booked with studying

study break!

So i'm taking a study break and am gonna fill you in a little bit about today.
I woke up early and went on a really good run through tiergarten and dropped by the gym for a little bit afterwards.
unfortunately, there was a metal-head couple in there who were blasting black metal-unenjoyable music in between kind of working out and making out.
a bit uncomfortable to say the least.

anyhow, after that i met up with a friend to buy groceries at the turkische markt in kreuzberg. i had to take some really strange way because the U8 wasn't running as normal. But it was really nice. I got so much produce for so cheap too! i'm trying to watch my cash because literally ALL my money has been going straight to my stomach. NO JOKE.

anyhow, after a good hour or so of food shopping we went to the 'best falafel restaurant in berlin'.
and it seriously was.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD
it was called the King of Falafel, but should have been called the Queen of Falafel.
It was an old turkish ladies kitchen pretty much. She made the falafel fresh for you by order and assembled it right there. soo tasty and warm. there was a bunch of cool turkish stuff in it but i don't really know the names of any of it.
but we spent about another hour savoring our massive falafels, eating fresh cherries and sipping delicious mate tea.
after this i headed back home

and then picked up my new running shoes! i ended up ordering an older version of the shoes i already had because they were cheaper, but probably exactly the same.
i;ve been studying for the past 5 hours but think i've pretty much hit a wall.
i have a paper due monday, a pratical exam tuesday and a written exam on friday. so it's kinda a stressful time. but that's not gonna keep me from seeing the ballet tomorrow and the berlinaler film festival on sunday!
schools not really the important aspect here. i mean don't get me wrong but i'm not going to lock myself inside to study like i do at home, hopefully it won't reflect too much in my grades but it's worth it :)!

just letting you know that I'm still alive!
it's exams time so I've been spending most of my time in the Bibliothek.
Tonight I'm going to see the Umbilical Brothers, they're a comedy duo.
This weekend I'll probably be spending most of my time in the library also :(
but when i take interesting photos I'll post them here!