Ita est!

My alarm started waking me up at 5:55. I had to be ready till 6:30. My cousin was going to drive me to the SAT Test Center in Plovdiv. However, I wasn’t startled by the sound of my watch. I turned it off and I continued sleeping for 10 more minutes. I didn’t care of being late this time. I was calm!

What?! I was calm?!

Yes, I was. I’d been studying for that exam for only 20 days. I didn’t go to school for the last 10 days in order to study, but I didn’t spend much time focused on Math.

What?!

Yes, too many people told me that the exam was simple, and I tended to believe them. Why?!

Because I wanted to. I didn’t feel like bothering myself studying hard math conceptions that didn’t really catch my interest.

I don’t know how I succeeded in turning off my “Hey, that’s an important exam alarm!”, but I did. And now I was heading for the exam. I wasn’t afraid of it this time. I tried to keep my brain in a cozy state, so that it wouldn’t be tired later.

When we arrived at the Test Center, the Sun was already making everything look cheerful, and so I felt. I met a lot of friends, who were going to test the exam. I laughed all the time, and wondered at my light-heartedness.

Even the endless procedure of filling the Answer Sheet before the exam didn’t exhaust me. Then I took a few deep breaths, and the Supervisor said the “Magic Words”:

“Open your books!”

I controlled myself, and I think I had clear thoughts for most of the time. I had problems with some of the questions, but I had the confidence to try to solve them. I finished with the last question 10 minutes before the end of the exam, so I reviewed the whole test again. Then we all heard:

“Stop working!”

…and I smiled with relief. I felt like having completed a task fine.

Then I spoke on the phone with friends and relatives, I visited my father’s aunt, and told them all how for the first time I am not mad after an exam finished. Later my cousin took me to Metro, where daddy and I bought an inflatable armchair. Oh, I had been dreaming for comfortable furniture for reading for so long! Now I finally found! It was cheap enough for me to invest in it for an year. Then we found notebooks with Van Gogh’s painting on the cover… and we couldn’t restrain from buying them together with a wonderful folder with a World Map on it. I can organize my stuff in it, bring them with me safe all the time, see the World, inquisitively see small countries on the map, and have a clearer view on the US states for my college choosing process.

I don’t know what has happened to me, but I feel so good now. I hope that this different attitude will proof better when I see the results on 23^rd. I had always been dreaming of achieving calmness and cheerfulness, and I really hope this path will lead me to where I’d headed.