Exams!!!

It was 5 o’ clock when I finally had my relaxing breadth after a tiring exam. It marked the end of my second semester and I was having a mixed feeling of joy and excitement and little sorrow deep somewhere for it all ended so soon. We had lot of memorable moments in the second semester and preparing for exams is also an important part of it. Almost my course is complete now and we have our final project to come. Our second semester was comparatively different to our first semester especially in the way the curriculum was designed. We had lot of group work where we need to spend lot of time together with friends which includes our sleepless night in the library.   

One fascinating thing about these night study and preparation is that it makes the work (whatever it is) interesting. Most of the preparation time comprise of irrelevant discussion, funny jokes (pulling each other leg) and a little bit of our subject. Since our university library will be open throughout the night finding a suitable place for all our fun ( group work) was not a problem. And another form of group work is the conference call in skype and status update in facebook.  Thanks to the advancement in technology as everything is free. And exams are lot more fun. Since we always have the illusion that our preparation is never sufficient, we tend to prepare more during last minute. I always have the feeling of getting my brain cleared right before the exams. But thankfully I get to remember some part of the answer when I see the questions. And am relaxed now since I feel I have written my exams fairly well and no point is thinking about them.

As a saying goes, a day can be complete only when both sun and moon shows its presence. And similar to that our university life was made interesting and complete with these exams and a wonderful break after that. Now we have an educational trip to Paris in few days from the university and have already planned so much with lot of anticipation. And we believe it will be a more than a welcoming break after the exams!!!

King and Queen

The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place last week in London. The whole country celebrated the wedding and I too celebrated it with my friends in Scotland in our own ways. Utilizing the continuous holiday, we covered almost all tourist attraction of Scotland. We planned for a four day Scottish trip to visit places around Scotland and booked for our accommodation in Edinburg and Glasgow.

The remains of Urquhart Castle

Scotland is a beautiful country which has its own unique attraction. We began our journey with the largest city of Scotland – Glasgow and started to feel the country. In addition to the wonderful places like 12^th century cathedral, botanical garden, universities, museums and City Centre, we got an opportunity to visit our first live concert of famous American pop singer Trey Songz.  And then we started to the capital of Scotland – Edinburgh. Wherever we went, we were welcomed by the pleasant traditional Scottish music played with the Great Highland Bagpipe. Our one day guided trip around the highlands covered almost the whole Scotland and it helped us to get better understanding of the country. Out of the entire visit, there were some special historic places which attracted me. They are the Scottish castles and palace.

The most visited tourist attraction of Edinburgh – the castle was well maintained by the government and it showed the kings rule on those days. In contrast to today’s modern high-fi weapons of the country , the weapons and armors used by the kings in the 12^th century to 19^th century and the life style of the kings in those days was found fascinating. Even the remains of the Urquhart Castle which was used by kings in 13^th to 16^th century as a guest house showed evidence of the quality of the life in those days. The Palace of Holyroodhouse which was the official residence of the monarch of Scotland in the 11^th century was too impressive and I really wished to live as a king for one day at least. Though most of the facilities available to the king of those days are available to most of the citizen of this country, the power and responsibility associated with the kingdom is too much.

Holistic View of Edinburgh

 Coming back to our today’s world, the contrast and change in the power and rule of our todays Queen was seen obvious. Am sure the Prince wedding added pride to the country and worth for the two billion people around the world to wait and watch.