Showing posts with label GCSE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GCSE. Show all posts

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Missing Life

Here's something I hadn't thought about when all this started. The teen is hitting her GCSE choices at school - so there are meetings, workshops and many other things that parents are expected to get involved with. 

Except I can't. Firstly I can't drive so that's automatically a husband thing. Secondly, potentially I'm around people who might have colds - and that's not a good place to be when you're in between chemo treatments. I don't want anything to delay the next phase. Maybe it won't? But I'm not wanting to find out. 

So instead husband and teen go to school and have an excellent meeting, coming back and telling me all about it - which is another first! I ask teen every day how school was and usually get an "I don't remember" type response - so getting actual information is a great thing.

On saying that, we have now found out she has to choose between woodwork or media studies for one of her GCSE choices. I am quite envious having had neither of those options when I had to make choices - kids these days have some really interesting stuff to learn. 

They also have some bad things - like having to do all three sciences. Sorry kids, you can't have all the good stuff. 

The teen is also doing her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze, another set of meetings that I can't attend for all the reasons above. 

Add to that, if she chooses Media Studies apparently she gets to go to the theatre in London A LOT. I may be a little envious.... 

Sore Neck

Oof, it hurts. Trying to sit up without hurting my core. My upper shoulder is in pain but behaving.  It's not agonising pain but it'...