Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Abodam!

Madness.

Imagine you go to school in Chicago and it's the morning of your final exams. Your "school" refers more to an organization, and not physical campus, so you're professors have held classes all over the city of Chicago. Now, you may assume that your exams are in the same location as last week's exams- at least, that was the plan as you last heard it. But, then again, they've switched locations 5 or 6 times before with little or no notice. But that was for lectures, not exams. In ny case, the exams are somewhere in the city of Chicago.

You arrive at the location of the exams last week- but find out they aren't being held there again this week. So you proceed to search through all the previous locations you've had lectures and quizzes-which are spread out all throughout the city- hoping to find your exam. Imagine you are conducting this search without a car, and must rely on public transportation.

By chance, you happen to talk to a security guard at one of the locations, and he informs you that he overheard some people discussing the new location for the exams.

The new location? Rockford. An entirely separate city that's an hour away.

Mus left to go take his exams at 6am Saturday morning. After searching through much of Accra, he finally hopped a bus to Tema, only to walk a couple of miles in the scorching sun since he didn't have enough money on him for a taxi. He arrives just in time at 11am to take his exams.

We aren't sure what will happen to all the students who didn't complete this spur-of-the-moment scavenger hunt. Mus thinks they may get the chance to make-up the exam- next year, at this time, a full year after the material was covered in lectures. What a wonderful opportunity given- I'm sure the final year students who won't get their diplomas this year due to their incompetent school will be especially grateful that they can make the test up a year later.

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