Last week before holidays!!

Well, it's almost there!! After having made the Proficiency exam, this last week is being very, very relaxing. No more study, but meeting friends, going together for diner, giving nice walks with all this snow... It's certainly cold (-10°C), and of course I still have to do some work at the office, leaving everything ready before the end of the year, but the rhythm is already different.


But at this point I just realized of big "problem". Which one?? Yessss, I didn't buy anything for Christmas yet!! Well, I certainly have no more time here in Munich, since today I have to prepare my luggage, tomorrow evening I'm going to a big Christmas party and I'm leaving on Saturday morning. But I still have some hope!!! I will spend some days in Spain before Christmas/Epiphany, so I hope I'll be able to find some time (and ideas) to help the Three Wise Men, Olentzero or Santa Claus, whoever is bringing the gifts :)

These holidays are going to be quite long, I'll be in Spain longer than three weeks! But as I usually try to do, I won't spend much time at the same place. I will be (at least) in Laredo, Zaragoza, Madrid, Córdoba and Granada, not that bad, and of course, I will visit some days Bilbao and Santander. I also planified some hiking if the weather is good enough. My parents always "complain" when I go home, they claim that even being at their home I hardly stay there, but you know, parents always complain about these things.


And another very important thing now at Christmas is, of course, taking care of what I eat... My capacity to eat a lot is quite big, jeje, so I have to be very careful. In last months I got some 3-4 kilos, too many journeys, exams, bad weather outside and therefore less sport... and now Christmas, the "worst" period of the year, coming in just some days. What can I do?? I usually get some 3-4 kilos every year during this time. Is there any way not to do it?? I think there isn't, at least visiting my mother!! Well, all mothers are like this, aren't they? And after Christmas I have plenty of time to lose what I gain, don't I? :)

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to taking the holidays this year. Having a relaxing time, visiting as many people as possible, eating good food (but not too much, jeje), travelling around a little bit, staying at home with the family... All this kind of stuff you always think about when the year is about to finish, don't you? And it's just in a couple of days!!! :)

English exam

After several weeks preparing the Proficiency exam, I finally made it yesterday. So this was the second time in six weeks I had to spend a whole day making a language exam! Well, I was certainly not lucky with the dates. A business travel in June made me postpone this one, and therefore, almost have it at the same time as the German KDS. Too much for such a short time, I think.

I find really stressing spending a whole day in a big classroom, with many other people, repeating once and again different exercises for hours... wouldn't it be better just to talk with an examiner who could test you in all the different aspects (reading, speaking, listening...) for a couple of hours?? Well, I understand it'd be too many people, not that easy to implement!

My biggest concern was not to think in German. English is certainly easier than German, and I have been learning for many more years. I think my background is better in English, but now I'm in Germany, which means a strong influence in the daily tasks, apart from having been preparing the KDS for months. Too many languages for my little brain, I guess!!

But it was OK, even if I'm not completely happy with my performance in the exam (I've never been in my whole life, I think), but I think I should pass the exam. The results will be published on January 25th. A little bit latter, in mid-February the KDS. I hope I will pass both of them, it'd certainly be a great relief for me!

But if I do so, what will be the next?? I can't be without doing anything!! :)