First test

So today I had my first test. Let me tell you something about me and this test. First off the test was simple he gave us the three questions on the test the week before so we could study only what was necessary. Great wonderful.... except that my motivation level for the past few weeks has be zero, zip, nada! So I found everything and anything to do other then study. SOOOOO i finally get to last night and realize I have no choice at this point, i HAVE to study. So i end up just writing out what i want my answers to look like...pretty much write my notes in paragraph forms and then I made note cards off of that. well get to class today and i'm like man i'm never gonna remember any of this...i don't know how but i felt like i wrote my notes directly onto the paper. I was impressed with myself...just thought you all should know that. oh and tests here are just essay tests usually but they want pages of information. which well i write a lot at home so i think i'll be good. the Indian students told us somewhere between 6-8 pages aka fill up the blue book. i got about 7 pages so i'm pretty happy with it. apparently though a lot of American students have never taken essay tests before and they were all really confused and couldn't figure out how you write so much... thank you SIUC professors for essay tests as much as I hate them, I'm one step ahead of a lot of students on tests here in India.
Although I lucked out too this semester because the majority of my teachers dispise tests and think it tells them nothing about what's in your head so we have papers and power point presentations instead...ok i can do that.
ok not much else goin on here had a red alert bandh on saturday but nothing happened. Friday went to an ashram, spiritual center focused on meditation....wellll they were spiritual all right. I think i shall call them a cult. not all ashrams are like that but this one man those people were nuts and im not sure how many times the guy told me to repeat...I AM A SOUL! crazy people seriously. and sunday melissa stacy and i went to the mall and i got some much needed clothing...i can't tell you how often i do laundry here cuz i don't have much clothing with me (on purpose) so i tend to have to wash often. oh and we went to the book store and wellllll i got a nickolas sparks book but they didn't really have a young adult section...which tends to be some of my favorite books to read and i didn't know half the authors so i just kinda gave up. i think i might get some books on amazon and have them sent here. there are some books in the common room but most are about india and or they are really sad or things i'm really disinterested in reading. so we'll see that's all i got for now.
miss you all and love you lots.