What were your best and worst subjects in school?
What were your best and worst subjects in school?
Good subjects;
English
Spanish
Cultural Studies
Music
Geography
Bad Subjects;
Maths
Woodwork
History
I was given permission to stop coming to classes in my 5th year so it's a miracle I got any GCSE's at all, can't say I did that well though.
If you notice thing's like bad grammar that's be why. (I also was very late with literacy skills). Just a bit of additional, pointless info. there. My grandmother said I was 'special', I wonder now what she really meant.
I had a friend who was like a bit of a man/father figure in my life. I had a great cleaning job - every Saturday I'd go and clean for him, I got £10 an hour and mostly drink coffee, smoked cigarettes and got to bitch about everything in my life. One day I went to his house as usual and he had been murdered. (Random, drug addict knife attack...thankfully I didn't find the body as the police were already there). My father had died the year before quite suddenly ..so it was all a bit much. I wasn't learning a lot at school at that stage anyway, there was too much going on at home. I was already truanting anyway.You were given permission to stop going to classes in your 5th year??
I had a friend who was like a bit of a man/father figure in my life. I had a great cleaning job - every Saturday I'd go and clean for him, I got £10 an hour and mostly drink coffee, smoked cigarettes and got to bitch about everything in my life. One day I went to his house as usual and he had been murdered. (Random, drug addict knife attack...thankfully I didn't find the body as the police were already there). My father had died the year before quite suddenly ..so it was all a bit much. I wasn't learning a lot at school at that stage anyway, there was too much going on at home. I was already truanting anyway.
My dad died when I was 14. It was sudden and unexpected. I only met him a handful of times although my parents had married. I won't say how- it's a bit personal. But I do remember thinking I might never smile ever again. Weirdly enough when I was 18 I au paired for some children in Spain and the mother of the kids died of pneumonia while I was there. I started getting a bit paranoid then...truly it was quite intense.It's a shock when someone you know dies....your Father died then when you were really young. I'm so sorry this happened. 5th year - how old were you?..And then your friend murdered..Gosh, a lot for a young person to take in. It must have been a really hard 2 years or so.
My dad died when I was 14. It was sudden and unexpected. I only met him a handful of times although my parents had married. I won't say how- it's a bit personal. But I do remember thinking I might never smile ever again. Weirdly enough when I was 18 I ou' paired for some children in Spain and the mother of the kids died of pneumonia while I was there. I started getting a bit paranoid then...truly it was quite intense.
No no no...I left home at 16 (nearly 17) and then went and lived with my dodgy boyfriend...then I escaped from that situation and have been living on my wits ever since (never married).That's so hard - for both you and the children you u'paired for. It is unusual...and then you were married for 10 years?
Did you ever marry? Or have you been more of a loner like me?
Anyway I'm not going to derail this thread anymore- just wanted to ask that.