Midterms/ Life

I'm sorry I haven't been posting a lot recently (that's assuming people enjoy reading my blog). For those of you who don't know, this week is midterm week. Holy cow, how time flies! I had a Spanish midterm today, my International Relations midterm tomorrow (wish me insane amounts of luck), my Italian midterm tomorrow, my Art History midterm on Thursday along with another Spanish one and a Communications midterm, and another Italian midterm on Friday. YIKES! The midterm I am fearing the most is my International Relations midterm. It is by far my favorite class and I find the material extremely interesting. However, the midterm sounds terrifying! I have read 320 pages out of one text book, and have to read another 200 pages in the other book (I am already on page). I have gone from never having to study in my life, to studying for one week straight for one test that is only an hour and fifteen minutes long. How is this possible? If someone has an answer, please let me know! But seriously, wish me luck everyone! Also, my motivation to get me through this week is the fact that I will be on academic travel next week! Woohoo! That is quite possibly the best reward for living through midterm week in college, and I get to go on academic travel after every midterm week, how lucky am I?
It's been getting a little difficult being so far away from home, I've begun to miss many things from Oregon. Some things that I particularly miss are my family, my dog, and people who speak English. People speaking English sounds silly, but it is slightly annoying when you go to the doctor and you cannot explain to them properly in Italian what is wrong. I still love it here! But I'm also looking forward to being able to hug my family, I'm halfway to winter break! Yay! Have a good week everyone!