Lilac Colored Glasses

WordPress is being a turd nugget again so I’m not going to delve into the moist little crevices of my inner ponderings for this post. I’m simply going to answer the question of the moment.
Did I pass level 5?
Am I free and clear to start grad school at the end of next month?
Have I successfully completed the UTC Preparatory Year of Dutch?

Nope.
Sorry for all of you out there who had faith in me to complete things without a mulligan, but I think we’ve already covered the current state of things here for me.
If something can go wrong, it will.
And it did.
And I’m oddly calm about it.

Dissapointed? I guess, a bit. But there were 40 people enrolled in level 5 for the month of August and of those 40, 9 passed. Yeah, you heard me right. If less that 25 percent of a group of people are able to successfully complete the hardest level of Dutch on the first try, I’m not going to beat myself up over it if I’m not one of them. I do tend to think there’s an inherent flaw in the system to have such a dismal success rate with a group that has already been gleaned of the proverbial chaff, but what do I know. So I’ve been re-enrolled in level 5 again. I still have class from 9-12 and my job in Antwerp will start on september 3rd. It means I won’t be home very much for 4 days of the week and when I am home I’ll have to put studying first.
Usually when I warn you that I won’t have time to blog though, I end up blogging more frequently, so this time I’ll just let the blog chips fall where they may.