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Date: 22 April 2005 19:32:34
Deeleea, next time you come to the Oisle o' Woight I'll definitely take you to the falconry centre. In fact, bring enough pennies with you and I'll book us into a day's workshop learning to fly the falcons there. That's Tiddles' aim at the moment too.
It's funny, I'd been planning to entitle this wiblog entry "testing times" before this evening. This evening's been a bit testing, though. My word, when my Dad gets one on him, he's more than my patience can bear!!!! He's worked up, of course, because he's got to go to my sister's. Not that he shows any actual appreciation of the fact that he's going there instead of into respite. Oh no, that'd be far too easy!!! And he's had a few digs about me "putting him in the workhouse while I go swanning off on holiday". What he doesn't quite realise is that it looks now as though our long weekend's holiday is going to be camping in the garden. UGH! Well, I can either afford the ferry fare for the car to go over to the New Forest or I can afford the new school shoes to replace the ones which BOTH boys have decided to rip the soles off this week, but I can't afford both. I bit back the temptation simply to send them both to school in their slippers!
But no, my testing times are not my father's tantrums. No, I've finally got to that stage in my massage course. Tuesday afternoon was the first of two practical assessments. I have to do a full body massage on a willing volunteer and be assessed as I do it. My good friend E reluctantly ;) volunteered to come over from Winchester so I could practise on her on Monday and then pummel her for real on Tuesday afternoon. A bit strange massaging a friend for the first time - so far I'd practised on family and on fellow students - but it went extremely well and I didn't forget a thing. Passed with flying colours - so I hope I can do as well next time in a fortnight's time.
E stayed on to babysit for me in the evening while I went back into college to do my written exam. I'd been revising madly - Smudgelet had been testing me and is now extremely knowledgeable about the functions of the blood! I was tempted to send him in in my place to take the exam. The paper was very fair - not too hard and, thank goodness, not too easy. I'm not sure what I think about the method used, though. The pass mark, apparently, is 100%. Hmmm, I though.... quite a challenge! But maybe not. The way it works is that you do the exam, you get your mark and they tell you which questions you got wrong. You then resit the exam, just doing the questions you didn't pass on, and if you get them wrong again they tell you and send you away to revise some more before resitting the same questions again the following week. And so on, and so forth. So ultimately, everyone passes. You know, I could have saved myself a lot of hard work by not revising at all, taking the test so that I knew precisely what questions they were going to ask, and then doing my revision ready for the resit instead of learning things which I turned out not to need at all. My reckoning is that I got three questions wrong. One was a "kickself" question where I knew the right answer and wrote down the wrong one. Idiot! The other two I don't know whether I missed some details or added some extra details or whether they mark it fairly leniently. But at least I know in the long run that I'll pass. Needless to say, I passed the Health and Safety one - you'd have to try really really hard to fail that one.
The following day I went off to work, leaving E just getting up. She was going to have her breakfast, lock up, have a coffee with my Dad and then get the bus back to the ferry. (Did I miss out "get dressed" somewhere in there?). It seemed quite strange coming home to an empty house, with just her dirty breakfast dishes sitting in the dishwasher pile, even though she'd only been here a couple of nights. I decided to do a cooked dinner for Dad - ham and cheese omelettes with chips and salad so I bustled around and got it ready then took it round to eat with him at his place. He was quite disappointed to tell me that E had not been for her coffee and he'd phoned my house twice so she'd obviously dashed off and forgotten him. :( Seemed unlike her to be so inconsiderate as he'd stayed in all morning to wait for her, but there we go... she'd probably suddenly realised the time and raced to get her bus.
At three I nipped home to load the dishwasher before going to collect the Smudgelet and nearly jumped out of my skin. There was E just emerging from my bedroom. She'd just lain down for a few minutes on the bed after her breakfast and had sunk into a deep sleep for six hours!!! Goodness, that massage must have been good!