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Jun. 11th, 2007 09:19 pmTo the sorting office this morning to collect the package with £1.06 to pay on it. It was just a letter for my father that was too big for standard letter rate :(
Just got back from college. When I arrived, Joan gave Liz, Helen and me the good news that we'd all passed our last units - so ***I HAVE MY DIPLOMA*** When the three of us had filled in our last exam forms and written our cheques, all of us who had no more to do just sat around for a while, till Joan asked me to run down to the office with the register, forms and cheques. While I waited for the lady to process them all and give me the receipts, I texted friends to give them the good news. Within moments everyone sent congratulatory replies.
Back in the classroom, Niki, Jenny, Chris, Jackie and Richard were all doing exams, so Helen, Anne and I all went down to the canteen to talk there. Not long after we'd sat down we saw Jenny go - she shouted goodbye to us and disappeared. I observed to the others how I'd never really got to say more than hello to Jenny all course, but that she seemed a nice lass - they agreed she was. Liz and I both said "She was", acknowledging that our time with her was now over, while Helen just automatically said "She is"... In the canteen we remained until 8.15 when Niki and Liz came down, urging us to go back up - "They're eating rolls up there!"
So we all spent the rest of the evening chatting around the centre table over nibbles provided by Joan (and a half-full bag of Mini Eggs I'd retrieved from the kitchen at home) - Chris and Richard came to join us when they'd finished their work. My chances to participate in the conversation were limited as the ladies mostly talked about their husbands and extended families and, especially, their kids, though when the subject got onto young people buying houses and how expensive it was I was able to tell them about the new phenomenon of two people buying a house together, platonically, as housemates; when I added that there are now people finding housemates to buy with on the Net, Helen said they must be mad... We also discussed plans for next year. I was the only one definitely looking to do an ECDL evening class next year, though a few are hoping to do classes in completely different things and Niki's planning on doing the ECDL through her work.
From about 8.40 people started to go. Niki and Liz were first; I shook hands with them both. As everyone, one by one, said goodbye to each other, we all basically wished each other 'good luck' in various words, though Niki's farewell words to me were "I hope you get what you're looking for." At 8.50 Anne, Karen, Di and I left the classroom, Joan telling us she hoped we'd learned something and found it useful. In the canteen the others all went the opposite way to me, and we called out goodbyes. There was no sentimentality or sadness, just everyone happily wishing each other well.
And so, alone, I set off across the Quad and headed for home.
Just got back from college. When I arrived, Joan gave Liz, Helen and me the good news that we'd all passed our last units - so ***I HAVE MY DIPLOMA*** When the three of us had filled in our last exam forms and written our cheques, all of us who had no more to do just sat around for a while, till Joan asked me to run down to the office with the register, forms and cheques. While I waited for the lady to process them all and give me the receipts, I texted friends to give them the good news. Within moments everyone sent congratulatory replies.
Back in the classroom, Niki, Jenny, Chris, Jackie and Richard were all doing exams, so Helen, Anne and I all went down to the canteen to talk there. Not long after we'd sat down we saw Jenny go - she shouted goodbye to us and disappeared. I observed to the others how I'd never really got to say more than hello to Jenny all course, but that she seemed a nice lass - they agreed she was. Liz and I both said "She was", acknowledging that our time with her was now over, while Helen just automatically said "She is"... In the canteen we remained until 8.15 when Niki and Liz came down, urging us to go back up - "They're eating rolls up there!"
So we all spent the rest of the evening chatting around the centre table over nibbles provided by Joan (and a half-full bag of Mini Eggs I'd retrieved from the kitchen at home) - Chris and Richard came to join us when they'd finished their work. My chances to participate in the conversation were limited as the ladies mostly talked about their husbands and extended families and, especially, their kids, though when the subject got onto young people buying houses and how expensive it was I was able to tell them about the new phenomenon of two people buying a house together, platonically, as housemates; when I added that there are now people finding housemates to buy with on the Net, Helen said they must be mad... We also discussed plans for next year. I was the only one definitely looking to do an ECDL evening class next year, though a few are hoping to do classes in completely different things and Niki's planning on doing the ECDL through her work.
From about 8.40 people started to go. Niki and Liz were first; I shook hands with them both. As everyone, one by one, said goodbye to each other, we all basically wished each other 'good luck' in various words, though Niki's farewell words to me were "I hope you get what you're looking for." At 8.50 Anne, Karen, Di and I left the classroom, Joan telling us she hoped we'd learned something and found it useful. In the canteen the others all went the opposite way to me, and we called out goodbyes. There was no sentimentality or sadness, just everyone happily wishing each other well.
And so, alone, I set off across the Quad and headed for home.
