Exam Day

We have been so busy preparing for our last whirlwind month here. My parents are coming for a visit, and then Scooter's mom is coming out for graduation. We have a couple of last trips thrown in the mix. Tomorrow Scooter starts his exams. He has three written and one oral exam. He takes his first two written exams, and Friday he takes his last written exam. Each written exam is three hours and consists of a few essay questions. His teacher estimated that they should write 70 pages over the course of the whole exam, so that should be 46 and 2/3 pages just tomorrow folks! I bought him some new pens to ensure that he wouldn't run out of ink. I'm sure he is going to need a major hand massage tomorrow night! We are really looking forward to these exams being over. He has been studying pretty much constantly for the past month or so. Yesterday he went at the library at 6:30am and didn't come home until 10:30pm. It will be nice to have him back. My last day of work is tomorrow as well. All in all it is going to be a very exciting day. I've been thinking a lot about how much I am going to miss Oxford and our life here. It has been such an amazing and surreal year. I'm going to miss riding the bus and people-watching my fellow passengers everyday. I'm going to miss our tiny flat - no matter where I am in it I am never more than a few steps from Scooter. I'm going to miss being able to sleep with our window open (even in the middle of the summer it cools down enough). I'm going to miss all of the street performers on Cornmarket Street. I'm going to miss the fields of yellow rapeseed I ride past on the way to the grocery store. I'm going to miss waking up at 5am thinking that it is noon because the sunlight is so bright coming through the window. I'm going to miss our local library's huge collection of travel guides. I'm going to miss the incredibly old buildings. I'm going to miss the chalk pictures that a homeless girl draws on the sidewalk every night. Anyway, enough of the reminiscing. We packed for a couple hours today. It is amazing how quickly we were able to pack. In under two hours we were able to pack about 70% of our stuff. It is such a contrast from our last move from Provo to Saint George - it took weeks to pack that time. Anyway, I need to run off and clean my house before my parents get here!

If you remember, Scooter could use your prayers - he has a lot to remember over the next couple of days.