Things haven't been so great these last few weeks- emotionally and physically and today I had yet another blow, which is not improving things for me at all.
Today I got my exam results for what I hoped would be my last module with the Open University towards my History degree. I did A327- Europe 1914-1989. This was a pretty intense course, with A LOT of reading and so much political and economic history (I should have known really... I'm not all that clever really...) and not enough of the history of that period that I was really interested in. There was a lot that I didn't know, especially the Russian history and I did come very interested in the last Tsars- I think most people have heard of the mysteries of Anastasia and all the people claiming to the best lost princess of Russia after the Tsar and his family were massacred by the Russian people.
I thought I had done reasonably well in the exam when I had finished it, and I made myself so, so unwell with all the revision and the exam itself. I think for the next three weeks after the exam I was dying a little- it was kinda scary. So I'm really disappointed with how badly I did in the exam and because of the way that the OU marks the modules my bad exam mark has dragged down the mark for the entire module down to Pass Grade 4. I really hope that this doesn't drag down my classification for my entire degree, I was working on a level to receive a 2:2 with al my health problems I've had throughout this course but I really don't want a third class degree! If it does then I shall do another module and hopefully do
Also I have recently started my next course to keep my brain active and to feel like I have done something productive with my time- a level 4 diploma in Forensic Psychology. Am currently in the midst of my first assignment- which was a very short research study into the Public Perceptions of Crime. I had to get 25 people to do my little study- boy was that hard to do! Now I just have to answer a few questions about research methods and then a short discussion on problems with my study and I can e-mail it off to my tutor. I hope to get this done by the end of the week.
I've been up to some craftyness recently; finished the Port Neuf cardigan and shall take a photo and do a short write-up when I can find the energy. Also dug out my cross-stitch I patterned with a program I bought off the Crafty TV shopping channel! It's of Lily and Baby Harry from HP, a picture I found on deviant art, put into the program and created a little kit. It's coming along now, but it's going to take a long time to finish as it's very detailed and intricate but hopefully it'll look good when it's done.
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