Hello blog readers,
Today it is the 31st of January. I will write my last blog while I am back in the Netherlands. Last Time I wrote about my first exams. That Tuesday I decide to not make the exam of genesis of the modern firm. I thought that this course would be an mission impossible and the day after we had the exam of organizational economics.
Wednesday at 17.00h we would have the exam, instead of 17.00h we finally started at 17.45 due to a lack of organization. ( how funny when you come to make an exam for organizational economics.)
We first took our place In the rooms 10.2.07 and 10.2.08. On the aula global site you could find these rooms but once we all had our place we had to go out and were divided by the teacher, all the candidates got called name by name to took place at your own seat. I had my seat in the first row what was so annoying because there was a lot of noise in the hall and I couldn’t read the questions very well. Also the teacher came 3 times in the class to change his questions of the exam because otherwise the answers would be wrong. The exam was very hard and since you got minus points for answering wrong I didn’t answered 4 questions. After the exam I thought it was nice to have a little break at the 100 monteditos with Jasper where we had French fries a salad with salmon and a drink for just 4 euros.
Thursday I decided it was time to relax a bit. Our last exam would be next Wednesday.
Friday we had our goodbye party for our Spanish friends. They all brought some tapas and some drinks and I had a little book where they could write a nice message to me. It was a nice and late evening till 4.00. It was very strange but I was looking forward to go back to Holland last weeks but now I really had to say goodbye I felt so sad.
Saturday we had our goodbye party for our exchange friends. Too bad some of us wanted to go out and some of us didn’t so, so it was a short party. Also some of us needed to take the last train to Getafe, always a problem! They had to go at 23h since the last train is leaving at 00.00.
The rest of the week I was packaging my suitcase and learning for the last and most difficult exam, strategic management. Once I opened my email I saw here they sent my grades to me by mail. I have a 7 for organizational economics, a 8.5 for operations management , and of course a 0 for genesis. Leter that week I also received my grade for human recourse management. A 5,6 what I didn’t understand at all! We made cases for 20% of our final grade and 10% was class participation. For the cases he told us that he gave us the maximum score and also for class participation what meant that I already scored 3 points for my final grade. The final exam were just 3 questions where I was pretty sure about but I had a 3,7 for my final is what my final grade said. Too bad but I cannot change this anymore and I cannot see the exam. I passed and that was more important to me but I will never understand this.
That Wednesday we had our exam for strategic, since I didn’t made the exam for genesis I needed to pass this course to get my extra grant. I was quite nervous and the exam was like the total course. I had no idea about how I did it but I thought it was quite hard. That night our Spanish friends wanted to see us to say goodbye another time. First we went home to get back our deposit, I already had a discussion with my housemate the day before. I cleaned the total house very very very well with Jasper because otherwise we would got back our deposit and asked her to keep the house clean. Even now this was too hard for her and she messed up the whole house again. So annoying but also too bad that you leave the house after a discussion with your housemates. But we cleaned the whole house again so we were prepared for our landlord. But even now she didn’t wanted to give back the deposit. I got so angry , after 4 times discussions about the rent with our landlord we again had a problem about money with her, even though we made a contract ourselves now. I told the landlord I would go to the police because she was such a betrayer but then she got scared and gave us back the deposit. I was so stressed and Imagined myself a more happy goodbye of a house where we lived for 5 months.
After the discussion I left the house cried once ( really this was so necessary) and then we went to the bar with our Spanish friends who had some nice presents for Jasper and me.
It was not nice at all to say goodbye , but I was also nervous to go home.
The next morning we woke up very early and left the house to the airport. My suitcase was too heavy as well as jaspers but we didn’t got a problem with it ( such a nice lady).
Once back in the Netherlands we were picked up by my parents to our house and had a nice welcome home dinner. Also the parents of Jasper came to hear all the stories.
The last months were very special, I not always liked my exchange as much I hoped but there we also very nice moments and from both I learned a lot. I made such a good friends and I hope I will see them again in their home countries or in the Netherlands to show them where I come from.
If I could do this again I would probably try to arrange an internship instead of a an exchange at a university or when going to a university I would prefer one in Scandinavia. I read all the blogs of all the people and liked the stories from the people in Scandinavia the most. This is maybe also because I am a control freak what is very hard in Spain since they are much less organized.
As you could read in all my blogs I came here with Jasper my boyfriend. First I wanted to go to Montreal in Canada, since I already experienced homesickness when I was still in the Netherlands I changed my plans and went to Europe so my parents and best friend could come to visit me. The fact that I went to Madrid like Jasper was more coincidence , although we spoke very well about this decision. A lot of friends thought this was a bad idea. Both we experienced this as a very nice experience. I had a lot of homesickness the first months in Spain and liked the fact that Jasper was with me. Otherwise I don’t know if I stayed. We made a lot of friends both Spanish and exchange and we traveled a lot. I think for us it made our exchange even better. All our exchange friends came in friend couples to Madrid and lived together. Since we all had a totally different schedule and different courses we had to plan our trips very well and it was hard to plan a trip together. Jasper and I had the same courses so could plan trips together what was very nice.
If I could give an advise to ESN in Madrid I would like to have more student parties. Since in Spain almost all students live with their parents there are not many student flats ( only in Getafe and villa verde ) but those cities are far away from the city Centre what for me would have been annoying. Since it is harder to meet people cause to this it would be nice when there we more activities organized by an association so I would have had the opportunity to meet more friends. Now I organized some parties with some other Dutch girls but only for the friends I met the first week. I supposed some nice activities I organized with my activity committee of asset to ESN in Madrid but they never did them.
For all people who go to Madrid, Have fun! Enjoy your time as much as possible and when you have any question you can always contact me.
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