My personal FAIL

So, i have been training for about one year to become a brown belt. And all this time I am waiting for one exam, the end of year exam. Turns out that it was scheduled for the day we come back from WOC. The exam starts at 9:00 and we arive at 10:00, but even though, i dicided to give it a try. I signed up and all and when WOC was over i took the plane. I was hopping to arive at 10 and quickly go, luckely I would arive in the exam at 10:30, enough to pic up the progress and start. Well, for some reason we arived at 11, meaning I would arive at the exam at 11:30 if I had luck. For this reason I could not go and actually missed the exam. The next one is only in March 6 so at least I got a lot of time to train more and garantee that I will pass with an 'A'. The other thing that will at the very least be benificial is that the exam will be during an intensive karate weekend that occures once a year. This weekend is designed to make everyone at least one best higher and to learn new moves and techneques. I will participate of this event and this brings great status and reputation to a person. It is very important to become a black belt, and the exam is not only going to judge your skills but also your field of influence and how recognized are you in karate.