I just realized I have an exam on Monday. And I can’t with this stuff, exams terrify me. I enrolled on a course, “Dutch for Academics” because I suck at debating in Dutch, particularly with political stuff where I need to articulate certain high level concepts that I know well in the English or Spanish languages (and probably Italian and French to a degree), but I struggle with translating on the fly while in meetings or debates. This course was specifically recommended because it deals with the terms and frameworks that I feel insecure about.
Now, of course, I need to take an exam to assess the level I will be placed in and this increases my heart rate by 1000x. I cannot fail this exam because there is no measure of success, the goal is just to determine which of three possible groups I’ll be placed in. Still, I feel the heat of my mother admonishing me because the equivalent of an A- is not good enough.
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