exam results

our exam results came out today...

and


with much anticipation, fear, trembling and moments of little faith

I opened the email that contained the end result of many hours of:

study,
tea drinking,
white board writing,
book reading,
web surfing,
long and drawn out discussions,
panic filled moments,
tearful phone calls to home,
procrastination,
anxiety
and
sheer relief (once all of the above was over!)

I actually opened the email at a friends parents house, so I had no room to save face or space to cry If I needed to. Thank goodness I didnt need to...

I PASSED FIRST SEMESTER OF MEDICAL SCHOOL!!!

I certainly was shocked.

Sure I can hear a bunch of you saying, surely Amy it was certain that you passed.
but,
the exams that I sat a month ago, were some of the most frightful exams that I have ever sat. I have never walked out of exams being so worried that I had failed, heck I doubt if I had ever thought it was even possible for me to fail an exam until I sat the exams last semester....

I digress...

ALL of that anxiety is over! I actually passed all three exams (and did super well in one of them in particular!)

I can just hear my mum's voice - "oh yea of little faith"

It is interesting how little faith I had in my own abilities, and also in the ability of God who got me into a course like this (against the odds) to then give me the ability to PASS.

I pray that I might have greater faith in He who has called me!

These results are testament to all those long hours of study and attentiveness, as well as testament to God who has brought me here, who is sustaining me and who is the giver of all of my abilities

What relief this gives me when it comes to this semester, I can walk on learning the way I have been without fear of failure. I can also learn from the mistakes I discovered in my learning style via sitting the past exams and can improve.

faith-filled.
hard work.
onward.
upward.