so much to catch up on!

ok sooo i havent posted in awhile... so i have a lot to catch up on... so this will probably be split into three parts. ok so part one will be about the week before our italian history and culture final. I was really stressing out over this final. we really hadnt been told what the test was going to be over, except he had given us these packets to read through and a time line that we needed to memorize. The packets were pretty big, and all he had told us to do was read through them... i tend to not do well if I dont know what is actually going to be on the tests. so the test is on friday, and its wednesday and i still havnet gotten the gist of any of the readings that he had given us. I still hadnt even gotten to my notes that i had taken. by thrusday i was falling apart... i had a complete breakdown i was stressed out. i was crying and i was a mess. i have to do good this semester, since everything that i hope to do is based of me doing really well and raising my GPA. i told my parents, and my dad called me on skype to try to help me settle down. we talked for a while and he told me to calm down and to find a quiet place and say a rosary, and just take a little bit to settle down. while i did that he told me that once my brother Aaron got home, that they would go for a walk and say a rosary for me. once they got back they called again to see how i was doing. I had calmed down quite a bit and had a laugh while watching my brother goof off in the back of the video chat, him being the monkey boy that he is. after all of that, i was talking to some of the girls just to see if they had an idea of what they though would be on the test, and they ended up sending me there study guide that they had made. i was really really grateful for that. i pretty much just studied that until i went to bed and through out the next day until the final. we had gotten out of Francesco's class early so i took advantage of that time to pack since i left for London right after the final. once i was all set and packed i studied even more. the final was easier than i expected, but there were some tough questions. i find out in a week or so what our grades were on it. after that test i felt a wave of releif. it was done and over with, and now i could concentrate on having a blast in London and Malta for fall break!!!