What A Day!

I actually had to take my GRE Chemistry Subject test in Christchurch. I had been sick for the last few weeks and had injured my ribs severely from coughing. I bused to CC from Dunedin (~5 hrs) and then hiked to my hostel in the rain and dark with my sleeping bag strapped to my backpack. After getting lost and stopping in a liquor store to utilize google maps on their computer, I arrived at my hostel. I curled up on a couch in the TV room and got in a little bit of last minute studying and then miserably went to bed. I woke up the next morning with only an hour before my exam was set to begin. I don't think I've ever lept out of bed so fast. I had planned to have a nice morning stroll to the nearby University of Canterbury (about 30 min.) before beginning my exam to clear my head. Instead I called a taxi from my emergency NZ cell phone and when I told the driver my situation, she got me to campus as fast as she could. My usually organized self then realized that the woman in charge of proctoring the test had not gotten back to me on the exact location of the testing center on campus. I wandered around the university in a mild panic until I found the University Police office. The kind security officers at the University of Cambridge knew exactly where my text was supposed to occur and gave me a ride. All of my worry was for nothing as even though I arrived past time for the test to begin, neither the proctor nor the other students had arrived. They were all late too! In the end, I made it to and through my three hour exam. What a day!