A French Success!

Well, another exam down. And it went surprisingly and amazingly well! Big sigh of relief as I chuck all my AS papers and notes (two huge ring binders' worth) into the recycling bin, and already my shoulders feel a little lighter and my head a little cluttered. I really honestly don't think I could have done much better - even with more than 10 minutes of crammed revision - OMGICAN'TBELIEVEHOWUTTERLY UH-MAZING the exam was! I don't wish to rub it in to anyone who struggled. I would like to add (and maybe include a short rant about the lucky buggers) that I am most definitely NOT one of those people who can just turn up to the exam without a spot of revision and breeze through it getting top marks. And URGH those people that moan ON AND ON about how they 'did so badly, blates gonna fail AND DIE' and yep, you got it, they get top marks. *Severe eye-rolling going on right now*

But I was secretly worried I'd either get a complete mental block in the exam, which has happened frequently before, or that I'd relied too much on the fact I'd been in France and so OBVIOUSLY French fluency and perfect grammar was just going to come spilling out the moment I opened the paper and so not revised enough. Ok, not revised at all... But it was fine. Seeing Catie brought back all those Parisian powers of mine, and I understood every word in the paper! It actually made sense! No stressing, no blocks, just pen to paper and it flowwwed. :) And when I got to the essay part, OHMYLORD firstly, I actually PLANNED my essay - I was so calm and on top of it all that I P-L-ANNED it, and secondly, I WROTE THREE PAGES. This is like, a French Miracle happening right here! Three pages of French, I may add, which made total sense and I think i had a Verbs revelation there and then as suddenly I was able to include subjunctive and past and... well, all those weird endings. 

On the other hand, I will be tout à fait [absolutely] gutted if I got a bad mark... Although I did get a B on this paper last year so it's not the end of the world. However, i do have a very bad habit of getting exaclty the same mark as previous on my retakes. Seriously, not the same grade, THE EXACT SAME MARK as before. it's happened in French AND Psychology retakes, and English GCSE... Which is quite some feat really and should result in top marks just for sheer aptitude. 

Merci beaucoup and au revoir AS French!