Well, I feel like the REG exam went fairly well. The first testlet was a breeze; the second and third were much more difficult, but I still felt pretty good about most of the questions. My performance on the simulations is much more sketchy, and it doesn’t help that I have no idea how strictly they grade the written portions. It has been two weeks since I sat for REG, but I’m sure it will be a few more before my scores are posted. I’ll keep my fingers crossed as I start gearing up for the FAR exam. Today I reviewed an entire chapter from the Becker FAR textbook and worked through well over one hundred multiple choice questions. I feel like I still have so many weak areas to struggle through during the two weeks remaining until I take the exam. FAR is proving to be much more difficult than REG, that’s for sure.
After a three week break, I’m easing back into learning Spanish. The more time I spend studying it, the more I feel like I will never really learn it. I’m over 80% of the way through Spanish I, which isn’t much of an accomplishment given the fact that this is the fourth time I have reached this point in my quest to learn Spanish. I usually make it all the way through I, then spend hardly any time in II before I quit studying. There has been a good reason every time, but I really want to get farther this time around. Hence the lofty goal, “Complete Spanish I and part of Spanish II.”
I have only finished one book to add to my summer reading list since my last post–Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenburg. It’s about the importance of top predators in ecological systems. Kevin read the book a year ago and has been persistently reminding me that I should read it ever since. It sounded somewhat boring to me, but I checked it out from the library to oblige him, still without especially strong intentions of ever picking it up. I finally started reading it when we were in St Louis, and found that old Kevin didn’t have such bad taste after all. It was one of those books that made me sad to finish. If only it were just a little longer.
New recipes:
- Basil pesto pizza with caramelized onions and peppers (7/3)
- Herbed baked eggs (7/4)
- Spinach risotto (7/8)
- Balsamic-glazed salmon (7/8)
- Boule bread (7/15)
- Brown rice and black bean casserole (7/16)
- French onion soup (7/17)
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Andrew on 07.20.2009
Have you ever considered that you have crappy-butt spanish text books? Maybe they just make spanish a loathsome topic for you. Have you tried Rosetta Stone? I have heard nothing but positive things about Rosetta…
Yay for reading and being terrified of an upcoming examination.