Final Exams

The day after my parents left, Nicolas Sarkozy (the french president) came to Chambéry to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Savoie becoming a part of France.  He came to Chambéry because it is the historic capital of Savoie.  Anyway, I was walking home from class that day and I noticed a giant crowd of people, so I went to see what was going on.  It turned out that they were all waiting to see Sarkozy drive by so I decided to wait too.  There were police/ military people practically every 10 feet along the road he would be driving on.  Once he did drive by, it was very unexciting.  He was in one car out of a line of about 15 cars.  The cool part was that after he drove by, the french air force did a fly-by.  Their jet trails were blue, white, and red and made a french flag in the sky.  Sorry I don't have any pictures of this.


Now on to finals.  I had a final exam for every class which meant 8 finals in one week.  My finals took from 15 minutes (for an oral exam) to 3 hours depending on the class.  I really hate having my exams scheduled this way because I feel like I have an information overload and by the end, I can hardly get any of my info straight.  My finals were as listed:
- XIXe century french theatre
- XXe century french theatre
- reflexion on contemporary art
- linguistic perfection
- french civilization
- history of religion (which was an oral exam)
- modern history
- french to english translation
(Can you believe that all of these only add up to 12 credits in the US?!?!)
I think they all went pretty well considering that I am not a native french speaker.  The hardest one was definitely reflexion on contemporary art for which the question was very abstract and for which I didn't think that the class adequately prepared us.  I was most scared for the history of religion exam because it was done orally but I think it went ok and the professor was really nice.
Anyway, I was so glad to be done with them and I had a nice restful weekend, full of sleep.