Yousane hopefully someday lyrics3/12/2024 But to me, the concerned constituent, it appears the plight of children doesn’t bother you after they’ve left the womb? Teachers and their students are suffering. Its retention rates are going down, along with its budget. But that doesn’t bother you enough to have you sign a recall petition, now, does it? It is now a full two years since I left that school. The school, like most other schools across the country, is suffering because it is being inadequately supported by the very executive and assembly that was founded to enable it to thrive. But it could not have provided me with the subjects I needed to achieve the future which has become my present. It certainly has the calibre of teachers and students it gets people into medicine almost every year. My school was not sufficiently funded to offer the courses I needed at A-Level. Luckily, I thrived at St Louis, and proudly identify as a St Louis alum, but the fact I had to do this is a disgrace. This allowed me to pursue my career in medicine in a way I simply would not have been able to if I had stayed at my previous school. After studying at a rural, Catholic non grammar school for five years, I made the jump to St Louis Grammar in Ballymena. While I gathered all of this work and life experience, while I grew up, while you have been taking an all too conveniently timed furlough from work, and before I fled your shambolic elected office at home, I even managed to change schools. She was pursuing her passion for photography, doing incredibly well for herself. She got herself a house, became a real adult right in front of me. My former best work friend, simply became a best friend of mine. The calm in the midst of the seemingly constant storm of a-levels. Throughout that school year, I would consistently have to attend various mandatory revision classes for my three-surviving a-level subjects and the many resits I had reluctantly gotten myself into. After passing my driving test in the winter of my Upper Sixth year, my first ever successful parallel park was on a street perpendicular to Follow, on a frosty February evening. The following summer, I sat the UKCAT, achieving a * slightly * better than average score, at the time I sat this, I didn’t know it would be better than average at all, the first people to hear all about it, and most other aspects of my University application were the staff of Follow. The results for this came through when I was having my usual iced hazelnut latte and cry over a-levels in follow. In lower sixth, I unsuccessfully ran for the UK Youth Parliament. I didn’t buy the shoes one too many times. I said ‘no’ to too many nights out, to too many coffees and dinners and pints. I let my naturally affectionate self be buried under the weight of other people’s actions. In the before times, I spent too much time worrying about what people thought, too much time worrying about how my actions were perceived and construed. Living through it, having to experience it, will have built so much more resilience for us all than we probably can’t even begin to see yet. This lockdown is going to be a watershed moment in all of our lives. But just as, and perhaps even more importantly, we need to be kinder to ourselves. Smile at that stranger when we are allowed to go outside without face coverings again. And we could, and should, all be kinder to one another this week and for many weeks after it. The world is a very nasty place - Especially at the moment. And I know that kindness is a quality I cherish in others. The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is kindness.
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