A surprisingly emotional day – seeing all the kids at school getting their results, most of them looking happy, some not, and realising that we might never see some of them again after they’ve gone their separate ways. Weird.
My kids did okay, just need to see how everything fits in with their future plans.
Phew! Just got back from my first drive with my dear son, Ed. He’s had lessons and his mum has been out with him, but this was my first time. He’s very calm and quite together, but we had an interesting route.
I took him to a very strange junction. He couldn’t work out where to go and stalled in the middle of it. My fault, I think. Then we met several enormous tractors down narrow country lanes and, the most difficult maneuver, getting past a couple or horse riders that didn’t want to go in single file, on a hill in a narrow lane. He did it though!
So many things to think of at the same time.
I’ve been off to Warwick University today, for a campus tour with my son. It’s the start of the long year of University applications and this was the first Uni to go and visit.
We arrived and got ourselves registered and waited for our party to be led of round the campus by Patrick, a soon to be second year student, seeing all the major sites and getting a feel for the place.
As I looked around I realised that you could easily pair up the parent to the child if they were separated or if you had a collection of random photos. So many variations – ethnicity, hair colour, skin tones, nose shapes, eye colour and shape, and that indescribable something that is kindredness – a way of walking, talking and holding oneself. I guess the young people have reached that age were they are looking like their grown-up selves and so look like mini versions of their parents
And yet each student had that same air of excitement and worry – it’s AS levels results day tomorrow and that will determine where they will aim for.