Translation of bemühen

Grammar exercises give the teachers and the students different ideas. We discussed the need for exercises in my previous email, but unfortunately I did not receive any further feedback since then.
I have not been in eastern Germany for a long time, because I have never really had time to travel. What do you do for living and in your leisure time, like the weekends and evenings.
Tomorrow I have my test, so I have to practice a lot, but it should have started to study much earlier. I can only act under time pressure, I'm just like that... . I am 25 years old and I am married.