The weather today has been absolutely beautiful, far too nice to be sitting in a classroom.The trees around the college are beginning to shed their leaves and the complex is framed by lots of lovely different colours as the leaves turn and then fall.
This is my fourth week now and I suppose you could say that I am starting to settle in.
Before my lessons commenced I did a little shopping in the town. I bought some lovely little buttons for a cardigan that I am making for one of my granddaughters.
I decided to have my boots re-heeled and soled while I had got the opportunity, as yesterday I found out that they were leaky whilst scrabbling about in a grave-yard looking for a family grave which I had not visited for some time due to moving away from the area 42 years ago.
Back to college and the lesson commenced at 1330 hours. Us older ones tend to arrive early. I suppose its been instilled into us over the years that it is not polite to arrive late.
Today I became aware of a very strange lad in our class. He arrived at 1400 hours, just walked in with no apology. He found a seat after a lot of shuffling around. He then proceeded to pull his headphones out of his pocket, shoved them in his ears and started listening to his i-pod. Whats so strange about that you might ask. Well not a lot really in this day and age.
The strangeness comes from the fixated stare that he gives you. He just focuses on you for the whole of the time that he is in class. He has no expression - no nothing. His eyes peer right through you and its quite spooky. I can just imagine him going berserk at some point and murdering us all. Note to self - Don't watch so much rubbish on the telly. Another note to self - Be nice to him and he might spare you when he goes mad!
The afternoon session was to end with a workshop. This really meant that it was just some time allocated for students to make a start on their assignments and would mean a trip to the IT Suite.
For some reason I was feeling quite rebellious (not bad for a 49 year old). I wasn't really happy about spending time in the IT Suite with all these kids. They can't behave in the classroom, god knows what they would be like amongst all the computers.
I told the tutor that I wasn't going join him for his little field trip and would work on the assignment at home. The tutor never really said a lot. Probably because I'm older than him!
All the kids trotted off whilst the rebellious granny made a quick exit out of the college. I half expected to have my collar felt and be hauled back in again.
I quite like being a naughty girl at 49.
The "unexpected" early finish allowed me to wander around the town (again) and enabled me to purchase a birthday present for my son, who will be 18 on Thursday 11th October.
I made my usual trip to M&S for my cup of tea and scone and then made my way back to the car for a while. I sat watching a squirrel messing about with his nuts!
Tonight's lesson was again hard. I am finding it a struggle to keep up with everyone as they are so quick at completing the question papers. I like to take mine home and work on them at my own pace, which enables me to fathom out the answers and make them stick in my brain ready for when we take the exam in December.
This evening we worked on the following:-
Credit Notes
Division of the Ledger
Completion of Sales Day Book
Completion of Sales Return Book
Posting from Day Books.
Hurray its going to be half term soon.
1 comment:
Don't be too quick to judge the odd character. I reckon it's the normal ones which are more likely to 'go postal'.
Oh, and well done with the Meez - I would have gone for the trumpet myself, but I didn't like the way it danced around. As you know, I'm very static indeed.
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