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Today marks day four of this epic event in Kirsten’s and my life.

We woke up the same time that we did yesterday.  I went down immediately to move our car off of the street into the ramp parking, and our room service breakfast was delivered.  Today was supposed to be less scary than yesterday.  We knew what the essay topics for today were supposed to be because we knew what topics were yesterday and we knew which ones were left, or so we thought.

I waited for Kirsten in the same spot as I had been.  Sure enough, her head popped up above the escalator right at about 11:40am, ten minutes after the morning session was done.  She calmly explained to me that apparently, she had mistaken one of the question’s subjects yesterday.  Today, instead of getting what she was expecting, she got something else.  For example, yesterday’s question she thought had been about Torts, and thus today was expecting Civil Procedure, but it was vice versa.  So it wasn’t a problem, her answer yesterday still was correct (or so she was hoping), but it meant that she had studied all the wrong law last night.  *sigh*

Overall, she was still encouraged by her performance that morning.  The phrase she keeps using is “tentatively optimistic.”  We came back to our hotel room and had lunch - our left overs from Cheesecake Factory, yum!  She looked over her stuff for the afternoon’s session some, relaxed some, and then we headed back over.  The session this afternoon was an easier time, where the test taker is required to look over a set of facts and law that is provided to you, and then write a legal memo or letter.  Basically, to show that you do know aspects of legal writing.  In practice exams, Kirsten had no trouble with this portion.

After dropping her off, I went back to our hotel room and read Wolves of the Calla for a little while.  At three o’clock, I met my friend Sean again for a quick drink.  He dropped me off at the convention center at about 4:30 and I met Kirsten again about 4:45pm.  She was exhausted, her hand especially was tired after writing all day, but she felt good that she was 2/3 done with  the bar exam over all.  We ran out to Granite City in Clive, IA to grab a quick bite to eat that included their buffalo wings, perhaps my all time favorites.

Now Kirsten is studying for the multi-state, multiple choice portion of the test.  We’ll pack some bags tomorrow and I’ll load the car up in the morning.  We have to be checked out by noon, so I’ll have everything in the car and the car in the ramp by then for sure.  I’ll pick Kirsten up from her last session and we’ll head on home for Cedar Falls!

Almost there!  Keep on praying for her!  We really appreciate all the support we’ve been getting!

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