The Worm Has Turned

Its been a funny sort of week and its only Monday!

I find it very difficult to prepare myself for college after the weekend. The feeling reminds me of when I was a little girl and absolutely dreaded the thought of having to go back to school and would have done almost anything to get out of it.

But being the brave soldier that I am, I would not succumb to, or even think about skiving! (If you believe that then you will believe anything).

This afternoons session again, involved the use of computers and entailed working our way around the SAGE finance package. I must admit I was feeling rather annoyed today as we seemed to be covering old ground due to the fact that some students couldn't be bothered to work last week.

This had a knock on effect and meant repeating stuff that we had already done. Time is precious and it really angers me that this wasted time could have been put to better use in the work place. Taking a day out from work is so time consuming and it means playing catch up the rest of the week.

Excuse me, I feel a Victor Meldrew moment coming on !!

Today has been an eye-opener for me and my college colleague. We had fired up our PCs ready to tackle SAGE and raring to go. After having a quick shufty around the classroom, we seemed to be the only ones logged into the programme.

The Three Witches of Eastwick who had turned into two, were on a different planet. One was tuned into restaurants in Birmingham and the other was into tarot card readings. One of the witches was also having a conversation on her mobile discussing the previous nights television programmes. Another reprobate was looking at the spec of i-pods.

My colleague and I just looked at each other in disbelief. She signalled to me WTF is going on here. I shrugged my shoulders and shook my head. I am desperately losing the will to live !

All of a sudden the session was cut short. Bham ! Our tutor had lost his blob! He told us to pack up and backup the work we had done. He then singled out the degenerates and told them he was really pissed off with their behaviour. Good on yer!! Should have been said long ago.

With a bit of luck they will be history next week!

After this afternoons session I was like a druggie - all hyped up with adrenalin pumping through my veins and I couldn't wait for the evening session to commence. It turned out to be one of the best. My brain seemed for once, to except everything the tutor was telling me, and yes, it really did sink in.

Is Granny actually enjoying this whole AAT business !!

Letter from Grandma

Dear All

The other day I went up to our local Christian bookstore and saw a "honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by thunderous prayer meeting. So I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.

Boy, I'm glad I did, what an uplifting experience that followed.

I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn't notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed. I found that lots of people love Jesus! Why, while I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, "For the love of God! Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ Go!"

What an exuberant Cheerleader he was for Jesus!

Everyone started honking! I just leaned out my window and I started waving and smiling at all those loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!

There must have been a man from Margate back there because I heard him yelling something about a "sunny beach".

I saw another guy waving in a funny way.. with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. I asked your cousin George in the back seat what that meant. He said it was probably a Zulu good luck sign or something. Well, I've never met anyone from Zululand, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back. George burst out laughing... why, even he was enjoying this religious experience!

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.

So, I waved at all my brothers and sisters grinning, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them. After all the love we had shared.

So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Zulu good luck sign one last time as I drove away.

Praise the Lord for such wonders.

Love Grandma

Nose to the Grindstone

I can't believe how quickly each week flies by. No sooner am I thanking god that Monday is over, the next one is around before you know it.

I have had a weeks annual leave so getting myself into the right frame of mind for college has not been that easy. Getting my brain into gear has be an arduous task. No time for slacking as the next exam is just around the corner.

The day has not been too bad. This afternoons session was really
good, probably because half of the class was missing (all the naughty ones) and it went really well. Again, as last week, it was computer based so a bit of hands work kept the interest up.

We are now learning about the accounting package SAGE. It seems really odd for me to be using this because we use ORACLE in the work place. It went well though and although I hate to admit it, I really enjoyed it.

I think I am bedding into the college scene now. I can meet goths and other creatures and not bat an eyelid. I have learnt to push and barge my way through just like everyone else, if I didn't, I would get crushed, as I have previously found out to my detriment.

Tonight, again was good, we have been learning all about Purchase Ledgers. I didn't have a clue at one point what was going on when the tutor used a projector linked to her laptop. The writing on the board was minuscule and now I am left with a permanent frown between me brows. Next week I shall take my noculars and hopefully get a better view!

Well that's another week under my belt, only two and a bit years to go!

Dawning of a New Day

Well the day has finally arrived - Exam Results Time! I must admit I have not really thought much about this day coming what with Christmas and Band Concerts.



I didn't feel particularly worried this morning either, in fact I felt quite calm whats done is done and can't be changed.

I had to get up really early as I had a physio appointment at the local hospital for 0830 so didn't have a great deal of time to think about much at all.

This afternoons session at college has probably been one of the most productive ones I have had the pleasure of attending since commencement last September. Although it was computer based it did go quite well. There were only two witches out of the three in attendance so they were rather quite, which was very unusual. The three stooges "Cool" "Random" and "Innit" were also missing, maybe that's why it was a good day.

I managed to slip home before the evening session started and have a bit of a warm as it is bloody freezing in that college.

I made my way to the classroom for tonight's lesson and everyone was asking each other how they thought they had done in the exam. The tutor arrived and I think everyone was trying to read her expression to see if it gave any information away.

The class started at 1800 and she made us wait until 1930 before the completed exam papers were returned to each of us. Now at this point I did feel a bit nervous especially as she went on to say that she was quite disappointed with the results. Oh God that's me up the Swanee then.

I was in for a very pleasant surprise, I had two small amendments to make (which were in actual fact just silly errors). Once these are marked again next week I am home and dry. It was a great feeling, but I did feel really sad for those people that have to re-sit the exam, because that could have very easily been me.

We have more exams to work towards in March, May and June so it ain't over until the fat lady sings!