Study, trips and sunshine!

I suck, I know it! You are probably wondering what happened to the more the less active blogger. I have one answer: IB! Now I don't want to make it sound worse than it is, but first year exams came up and they are quite important for university applications so within days my studying went from this:

To this! 

It was a bit chaotic because my physics and economics tests were on the same day, so it was no life, lots of notes, coffee and desperate methods, but I survived right? Now if it wasn't for IAs, EE and so on (those who knows the IB will get me) I would have had my life back by now :) 

Since that, the second years left. Saturday, May 19th. One of the saddest days of my life and the following days as well, but it also brought us first years closer. I started hanging out with people I hadn't talked to much since the beginning of the year and we didn't study much. At the same time the sun came out and gave us about 26 degrees and full sun every day! That helped us get the thoughts off of things too and we went for a lot of walks and hung out in the sun. 

Then the assignments came back, but I think we're all agreeing that our minds have gone on an early summer break. Even thought the last day of classes isn't until Thursday, we have had special days all this week with only two blocks a day; from 8-10 and 10:30-12:30. This allows the different ToK groups to go on an overnight trip to a farm not far away. I am going tomorrow night! 

Yesterday we went to Bergen with the Nordic classes. We went to a museum and then we had four hours off. Kris and I walked up to a view point and saw the city from above. 

On the way we saw a snake! I think we both got a bit shocked. We also saw to road construction signs in the middle of this path and there was definitely no construction in sight. Crazy Norwegians! :) 

We ate a nice dinner (not Kantina food) and then we all met again to see a dance show between Norwegian folk dance and Chinese Kong Fu (I think). 

Lot's of other things have happened, but I will try to get at least one more update in before I leave campus in 8 days :) 

SATs

For the past months, but most intensively the last couple of weeks, I have been preparing for the SAT test. The SATs are required by far the most Universities in the U.S. and is a test in English and Mathematics. Here, we can take the test in May, October, November or December (or re-take it) but I thought it'd be nice to have it over with this term, since rumor has it next year is going to be even more busy. So after being locked in the Høegh, one of our buildings, from 8-13 today, it's over and it feels great! Now there's nothing more to do than to wait for the results and hope for the best. Suddenly everything got serious.. Universities? Second years graduating in two weeks. Going home in a month! Where did time go?
I have first year exams from Thursday, May 10th until Friday, May 18th, so I will probably dig a big hole and jump into it with my school books for the next couple of weeks! See you on the other site!