A kiss for luck and on my way

What a beautiful day yesterday was.

It was a day of firsts, seeing Project Maths’ debut as well as the first “new” Irish paper.

It was also the first time I’ve come out of my exams satisfied with the papers. And I wasn’t the only one. One of my friends was skipping and singing. Who would have seen that one coming after last week?

Maths, I thought, was a very fair paper aside from a tough question 8 about a robotic arm and an indirect way of asking a theorem in question 5. The paper was nicely laid out, with each question broken up into small, manageable pieces.

We were all a little bit worried after the mix-up with Irish papers, but there really was an essay there to suit everyone.

The only downside to the day was that my invigilator now thinks I’m a freak. She caught me kissing my booklet before handing it up. Mortified. But in fairness, people do that when they send off letters and what not, right? The look she gave me, you’d swear I’d spritzed it with holy water or something. Although that actually wouldn’t do any harm.

The weekend was pretty uneventful, to say the least. The good weather was back again, just in time for us to spend the whole weekend in the library. We’re spending far too much time there.

While we were on a lunch break my friend Niamh said I could borrow her notes once we were “back at home”, before realising what she’d said and that we don’t actually live in the library.

I cannot wait to get some form of a life back. I don’t think I could ever go near UCC or another library after the Leaving Cert’s over, for fear of any terrifying flashbacks or a déjà vu of frantically trying to memorise Irish.

Speaking of terrifying, I opened my maths set on Sunday night to find there was nothing but a protractor in it. I would have loved for someone to have filmed my reaction and replayed it in slow motion.

I imagine it would have looked like one of those freeze-frames you get after you ride a rollercoaster.

My poor mother had to drive me to Tesco at the crack of dawn to buy a new one. It’d be fair to say there are two people in my house doing the Leaving.

Until tomorrow morning,

Have some more luck

Jess