My Life As Nepali Wife

Today was day 3 of the four exam days. As I wrote earlier, studying 7 to 8 hours for an exam is sufficient if you have attended the classes. I knew that today's exam would be pretty easy. Not much content, low difficulty, all assignments already done. So I lazed in the morning and slowly started the study. After our prayer first tea. While checking messages on my phone. Then starting up the laptop and checking whether I miss anything in the list of Powerpoint presentations from the teacher. Meanwhile, I'm chatting with my classmates in the group chat. Oops, what are they talking about now? Cognitive interest? Do I have any material on that? I ask in the group what it is and if someone has slides of it. In the meantime I have already found them on my own computer. "Leave it, found," I type in behind it. After breakfast and when David leaves for the prayer meeting, I plan to go through all the slides as quickly as possible so that I can go to the bank at 14:00 to ...

Vandaag was dag 3 van de vier tentamendagen. Zoals ik eerder al schreef is 7 à 8 uur studeren voor een tentamen voldoende als je de lessen hebt bijgewoond. Ik wist dat het tentamen van vandaag aardig makkelijk zou zijn. Niet veel stof, lage moeilijkheidsgraad, alle opdrachten al gemaakt. Dus luierde ik in de morgen en begon langzaamaan aan de studie. Na ons gebed eerst thee. Onderwijl berichtjes op m'n telefoon checken. Laptop opstarten en checken of ik niets mis in de lijst van Powerpoint presentaties van de leraar. Ik chat ondertussen met m'n klasgenoten in de groepschat. Oeps, waar hebben ze het nu weer over? Cognitive interest? Heb ik daar wel iets van? Ik vraag in de groep wat het is en of iemand er dia's van heeft. Intussen heb ik ze al op m'n eigen computer gevonden. "Laat maar, gevonden," typ ik erachter aan. Na m'n ontbijt en wanneer David is vertrokken voor de gebedsbijeenkomst, neem ik me voor om alle dia's zo snel mogelijk door te nem...

Just 15 minutes left of this working day and I have to accomplish my goal to write this post. Hopefully I can get all my thoughts out on the screen in 10 minutes and then translate and post! So what I want to share with you is... Just a week left till my end semester exams and I am just starting doing my assignments. Sound crazy. Or familiar? From my childhood I have always and always been trying to do my assignments and reading in time. From primary school till master level. And till now I have never succeeded. I might have handed in my assignments on the deadline (if that was a strict one) many times. However, I did never complete it when I wished. Nicely in time, delivering quality. In my university now the deadlines are very flexible, that makes it even more hard to do everything in time. There are always so many other things to do that have more priority at that moment than working for a far away or vague deadline, right? So at the last, last, very last moment I am forced to...