Adolygiad

Exam season has come to an end and I am now left to clear up the mess revision has caused. Literally about half of my floor is taken up with clothes, notes and books. When I revise it kind of takes over so stuff, like laundry, glasses, cups, notes, pens, etc. builds up and remains untouched until after the exam nightmares. My walls and my posters play host to post-its and list upon list upon list of random notes that I had hoped would come in useful, though in the end not many of them did.

This is my notice board where all my notes go, funnily enough. In the middle is my Robert Pattinson calender which was a well-received birthday present from a housemate, on the far left is a Lady Gaga calender which I got for Christmas, also well-received, below that is a fire safety sign that I have to keep in clear view because of the Uni rules, blah blah. On the far right there's a red necklace thing with a Finnish SIM card in the pouch which is commemorative of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki and next to that is a yellow Plaid Cymru necklace thing which is keeping hold of my Sarah Millican ticket - cannot wait to see her in March! Below those is a really kitsch-y Alice in Wonderland 'Drink Me' bottle which I adore! Surrounding all of these things are my revision notes: Welsh on the left and politics on the right.


European politics revision was pretty simple and straightforward, as simple as EU politics can be anyway. Very luckily the exam asked a question about Europeanization which was the topic of my essay earlier in the year so that came in handy :) Welsh on the other hand could have given me a mental break down. The paper had 100+ questions, all of which had to be answered, and some of the questions made sense as in they actually tested that you're progressing in learning how to use the language, whereas others were just plain ridiculous. Over the course of the semester we were required to have learned 97, fairly uncommon words, some of which I'd never heard of in English, and only use 6 (that's SIX) in the actual exam. As well as that there were idioms, word genders, proverbs, grammar rules and a lot of other anger and vomit inducing topics.


Anyway it's all over now and on Monday I start the second semester with the exact same Welsh modules as last year and two new politics modules, namely Wales & Devolution and International Political Theory Today - fun times!!


Right, gonna get on with profiling myself as best I can, and I can only whole-heartedly apologise for this rant of a post.
Liam x