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Saturday 18th July 2015
Last night I was eating a large supper with Hiển, when my music theory teacher, Roger Hansford, phoned me with the news that I’d passed my grade 6 music theory exam. The pass mark is 66%, I achieved 70%, he was pleased, although I had hoped to get more, at least a merit, i.e., over 80%. A merit would have meant double the points I’ll need for my application to enter University one day.
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Roger, my teacher, delivered my certificates to me today.
When he phoned I was busy getting breakfast. It was noon. I told him I wasn’t dressed. Then I thought to ask, “Where are you?”, thinking he expected my to fetch my certificates from his home.
“I’m downstairs.”
I thought he meant he was waiting in his car in the yard. I was too excited to wait and dress, so I rushed down in my gown, opened the door and:
“AHH!” we both…..
22nd July 2015, Wednesday.
I caught the 9:30am bus to Southampton University for Hoa’s graduation.
I reached the Turner Sims at the start of her ceremony. I had no ticket to enter, nonetheless I spoke to the doorlady kindly, she let me in, as I noticed there was a single empty seat. I was pleased to be sitting beside a table were I could rest my iPad to video the large screen showing the proceedings taking place inside the auditorium. Some…..
On Saturday the 20th June I wrote my Grade 6 Music Theory exam. I had to wait 6 weeks before the full results were published, though I received my initial results after a month from my teacher, Dr Roger Hansford.
I liked the paper, I thought the questions were fair, no tricky ones. I used the full time allowed, including an extra hour, given to me because I suffer from dyslexia. I would have been lost without that extra hour! I started reading through…..
We spend more than a third of our lives sleeping. How we sleep has an impact on our health as I’ve found to my benefit when I changed the position in which I sleep. By sleeping upright at an angle of 25 to 30 degrees one gains the best results. No more morning headaches or restless nights for me. Other people who I know, have tried this and gained similar benefits.
To prevent my heavy head from rolling to one…..
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