Mathematics Course
Friday 15 August 2008 at 7:05 pm
I actually sat down today and started my first Preparation test for my maths course, and OMG its amazing how much I've actually forgotten since doing any sort of maths related formal education. Brief moment of panic later and a quick look at the next few revision chapters and i could breath easily as they cover everything in the test again. Its ironic though that I have a shit load of Engineering qualifications that revolve around a firm base in maths, but some of these simple things threw me.
But on the flip side it, Its actually what I was hoping for. some real work required on my part to study and actually learn before taking exams, Unlike nearly all the last sets of qualifications I did where I goofed off and messed around. Did absolutely no study and walked in and passed the exams. Ah well I have 8 preparation modules to do before the official start of my course, which means I need to-do 2 a week right now roughly. Which will be all fine and dandy come Monday when Garion starts his Formal Education. Will have to wait and see how this goes as we've already hit a stumbling block yesterday with the school wanting G to start 30minutes after all the other kids on his first day because of his "Disability", I hit that nail on the head right off the bat. Garion will not be discriminated against on someone's half baked notion of what his disability is or how he may or may not react. The school didn't seem pleased when they heard that Garion will start at the same time as all the other kids and that's it. He's never had a problem with First days noise and stress for the past three years at nursery. And kids starting nursery for the first time get as upset as kids on there first day of school. But if the school had bothered to ask that instead of just making an assumption on there own about Garion they would have got a perfectly clear answer. Least now I've also made my position perfectly clear, I spent the last year fighting against the education board getting him into main stream school. I wont roll over and let them segregate him from the "Mainstream" kids because of his disability unless its absolutely warranted.
So yea, as you can probably guess. With all the above going on. Plus trying to finalize our move to Skye (Which should happen in October) and a few other major things like minor surgery for myself, Life is a bit crazy and hectic for me right now. Hence why my usual online presence is rather diminished and probably will be till at the least after the move.
That’s how it always happens isn’t it. When things start to happen it all tends to happen at once.
Shadee - 16-08-’08 12:19I laughed when you mentioned a “brief moment of panic”, because that’s exactly how I’d imagine my reaction would be if I suddenly got thrown back into the studying process. It’s just so hard to figure out how to turn that switch in your head and get started on things like that again, especially when it’s been so long. But I’m sure you’ll do just fine, and I’m sure the same goes for Garion. It is pretty unbelievable that the school just decided that without consulting with you so I’m glad you managed to straighten them out. And yay for October! That’ll be a nice reward after all of this :)