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[the_other_sandy]

I haven't been writing much about my adventures in Spanish class lately, but I've certainly been having them. Last Monday, we had a two hour test. Yes, two whole hours. The first hour was a standard fill-in-the-blank, true/false, multiple choice test, and the second hour was an essay on an assigned topic. I've spent the last week dreading getting the test back. There was a huge listening section where the instructor read a whole paragraph and we had to answer questions based on what she said. They were fill-in-the-blank questions, so there was no faking it. She lost me somewhere in the third sentence and I never caught up, so I was sure I'd blown the entire listening section, which took up the entire first page of the test and was worth a ton of points. I've been bracing myself all week for a truly horrendous score. Well, we got the tests back tonight. I lost two half points for rookie verb conjugation mistakes and that's it! I also got two out of three extra credit questions right, so I wound up scoring 41 out of 40 points. ::dies and is dead:: I think the only reason I made the two stupid verb conjugation mistakes is because I was still panicking over the listening section (it was the first part of the test).

We still haven't gotten the essays back. I think I was reasonably grammatically correct, but I don't know what she was looking for in terms of actual writing (organization of information, transitional elements, word flow, etc.), so I really have no idea how I did. I'll have to chalk this one up to a learning experience so that I know what she's looking for next time we have an essay test.