Last Friday I got the results of my CEFR French Exam which I took on June 5. Unlike the CEFR Spanish test DELE A2 which I barely1 passed(→see my blog on Feb. 29, 2020), this time I passed it no problem. I set my target low. That helped. I finally feel happy that I was able to manage one of the craziest days of my life.
Since I missed the test last year, I was waiting to try my first CEFR French exam. When I was about to2 start studying for the test in top gear….,
I was invited to play tenor saxophone in a big band! And there was a performance planned in a month and also on the same day as3 the exam. First, I said "No", but then Will and my French teacher said "You should join the band. You can take the exam any time, but you might never again be asked to join a band."
So I chose music over the French exam4.
After I practiced the 6 pieces to play in the festival like crazy5, I got the test schedule a week before the exam which I was planning to skip. I found that I had 1 hour and 20 minutes between the exam and the time that the band was to meet — I decided to do both!
My 15-minute interview test started at 9:15 and my written test was 12:00-13:40. Then, I joined the big band at 15:00 and performed at 16:00.
Thank God6, I chose the easier level of the exam because it was my first time to try the CEFR French exam, but it isn’t easy. This is the exam that evaluates7 the language proficiency8 in daily life in Europe. The listening and writing and speaking tests are quite big. I was super nervous.
My tension level was at maximun9 when I was going to my interview test in the morning, and I got super nervious when I was going to my written exam at noon again. By the time I was going on the stage to perform, I had no energy left to get nervous.
When I came home in the evening, I was like a zombie.
Anyway, that’s what happened. It was really a tough day. So I’m relieved10 that everything went OK.
This weekend, 2 days after I got the test results, I had Perrier at a bakery cafe. When I picked up the bottle, there was a smiley face underneath. It seemed like it was telling me you did it! Thank you, Smiley!
