I did this myself. I designed the whole thing myself. I won’t say I handcoded it, but I made the layout and I’m mighty proud.
The schoolyear is over. This week I hear if I can start in year 2 after the summer. It would be very weird if I was denied, I got good grades, passed every exam on the first try and my reflections at the end of the year were alright. But you never know. Maybe my incapability of motivating myself to start project early instead of working against a deadline made too big an impact on my assessor. But we’ll see what happens.
It has been a strange year. Starting school again made a major impact on my life. Even bigger than I expected. I thought I had no social life when I worked as a waitress five days a week. Turns out, it can be even worse. Because of schoolwork I have hardly any time during the week to see my friends. On fridays and sundays I work in the evening, so I really only have one free day a week. Saturday. And I usually spend it cleaning, doing groceries and just hanging around the house. The only people I see on a regular basis are my colleagues and classmates. And some of them have become very good friends as well, but I can’t remember the last time I had a decent conversation with one of my friends that I have known since secondary school, or from even before that.
At work things have also changed. Before, I used to be there five or six days a week and knew everything about everything and everybody. Now I’m a bit out of the loop. Which is great on some parts (no more regulars talking the same crap every day, no more knowledge of every simple thing that goes wrong) but on other parts (going out, knowing each and every one of your colleagues) it’s not so great. I’m sort of in between two groups of people. The ones who work full time and those that only work a few hours a week. Officially I belong to the second group but I’ve worked there full time for so long I’m also a bit part of the second group. Which is weird to say the least.
School is good though. I enjoy it and even though there are days I find it very difficult to get out of bed at 6am I never did not want to go. Good thing. And I finished the year. Without problems. Which is basically a new record for me. I don’t think I finished a year this easily since primary school 
I only really blogged about school three weeks into the schoolyear and nothing much has changed. I mentioned I did not understand much of phonetics, that has changed, I actually like the course now. I get it and even though I’m not really good at transcribing I like all the symbols now. Grammar just comes easy to me. Which might be tricky in the future because I rely more on my gut feeling than the actual grammar rules. And I have to be able to explain them to my future pupils. Literature is just plain fun. I love to read and we read some interesting books this year, I might just do a seperate page on them. And then expand it next year, we have a huge booklist for next year. The other courses really focus on teaching, methodology, psychology and sociology, which I won’t bore you with.
My best moment this year was the 10 I got on the listening part of my CAE exam. It sadly coincided with the death of my grandfather. He passed away on March 28th. I still have a real hard time realising I won’t ever see him again. I spoke on his funeral, I made it ten words in before I broke down and had to stop for a moment to catch my breath. I’m glad I spoke though, I guess writing the speech was more or less theraputic.
And now summerholidays. I will work some extra shifts at work, but not very many, so I’ll probably spend the summer working on this site and my fanlistings. Until August 18th. Because I’ll be flying to Leeds to visit Pieter who’s been living there for a year now. I’ll be there for five days before I get back to school at the end of August.
Suzanne on July 4, 2009 | Filed under: friends, personal, school, work | Comment
