1) Theresa, the PCV at college, had cooked Bannana Nut Bread in my kitchen during the afternoon. There was a sweet parcel waiting for me in the Kitchen.

2) Uncle Mungbean has sent me volumes two and three of The Baroque Cycle, and I sat with a hot cocoa and Bannana Nut Bread, and read my copy of The Confusion.

The exam wasn’t bad, but the studen’ts aren’t good.

None of the subjects covered in our marathon revision coaching session yesterday came up in the exam paper, but Im glad, and I think they did better because of it than they would have done if they had been left to their own devices for preparation. We got into some sort of working attitude by the end of the day, which was very near the end and takes some effort. here’s a clue…

After the exam they still have a test to sit for that subejct (due to bad management by the lecturer and psychological blackmail by the students). I asked them to sort out a time when they would sit for it. After a while the rep came to the staff room with the following messge:

"The class are divided about when to sit fo the CAT"

I raised an eyebrow or something.

"Some of us want to do it today and some want to do it on friday."

"See if you can unite them: I can only let you sit for it on one day."

She protested that the class were divided. I pointed out that this sort ofdifficulty was exactly the sort I had been encountering with them for the last two terms. Since I had decided to give them choice of when to sit for it, the least they could do was to come up with a single date and tiome on which to do so.

I saw her later and she said she had been successful in uniting the class, but that they had asked for an additional 4th test for them to catch up on the possibly bad marks they feared they had got in earlier ones.

But at least the exam paper didn’t have any nasty supprises!

I turn into a teenage DU-DU NUT!!!