Preparing for Tomorrow
As I take a break from my feverish preparations for tomorrow, I'll share with you what the approaching future will likely present to my fellow UF peers and me.
Being the last day of the first quarter tomorrow, we will soon be taking our final exams covering myriad tenses at all levels of difficulty and themed vocabulary ranging from what makes a best friend to what makes a great city (they do in fact share some similarities). While this itself presents one of many anticipated challenges of the study abroad experience, recent developments may accelerate the pace from a marathon of sorts to a 100-metre dash.
According to the Spanish newspapers and my haphazard translations, tomorrow the Metro, the central method of public transportation throughout the city, will be closed, without minimal services, due to strikes, in response to a 3.3% pay cut, as a result of recently enacted austerity measures, as dictated by greater Europe and the overwhelming belief that fiscal conservatism will help evade a double-dip recession in the Western world and the greater global economy; my opinions on these specific "guiding" economic principles are best left to another post. And yes, that's a run-on sentence with excessive punctuation to reflect my initial conniption in response to the news.
But we shall overcome. Tomorrow we'll battle for what taxis are available and make our way to Universidad Antonio de Nebrija to successfully complete our final exams.
And then I leave for Paris on Thursday with my mom. I'll update you tomorrow afternoon with the results.
Being the last day of the first quarter tomorrow, we will soon be taking our final exams covering myriad tenses at all levels of difficulty and themed vocabulary ranging from what makes a best friend to what makes a great city (they do in fact share some similarities). While this itself presents one of many anticipated challenges of the study abroad experience, recent developments may accelerate the pace from a marathon of sorts to a 100-metre dash.
According to the Spanish newspapers and my haphazard translations, tomorrow the Metro, the central method of public transportation throughout the city, will be closed, without minimal services, due to strikes, in response to a 3.3% pay cut, as a result of recently enacted austerity measures, as dictated by greater Europe and the overwhelming belief that fiscal conservatism will help evade a double-dip recession in the Western world and the greater global economy; my opinions on these specific "guiding" economic principles are best left to another post. And yes, that's a run-on sentence with excessive punctuation to reflect my initial conniption in response to the news.
But we shall overcome. Tomorrow we'll battle for what taxis are available and make our way to Universidad Antonio de Nebrija to successfully complete our final exams.
And then I leave for Paris on Thursday with my mom. I'll update you tomorrow afternoon with the results.