Yoohooo ... it's me!

Okay, so things aren't as bad as I'd feared. The learning centre (the very plush Woodland Grange) has internet access and I haven't been completely deprived of my favourite pastime, although of course I haven't had quite the access that I normally have.

Did I mention that the course I'm doing is the NEBOSH National General Certificate? If not ... now you know!

It's been an interesting week, full of emotion and I think I'll be glad when the exam is over tomorrow and I can finally relax for a couple of days (I hope), although I'll be sad to say goodbye to a few nice people who aren't taking the second part of the course. The first day was a bit overwhelming, so much new information that it was hard to take in and I got rather despondent when I couldn't do the homework. Fortunately a nice new friend called Dave gave me his to copy ... although I did admit to Peter the tutor that I had cheated!

The second day was much better - more my area of work - law and compensation so I was relatively happy and then came yesterday.

A nightmare day full of lots of heavy duty stuff about health and safety legislation and regs followed by a mock exam!

I did absolutely dreadfully and left the classroom feeling very teary and ready to leave the course and go home. Lots of self-pitying e-mails to friends (sorry Mrs H3 and Nick especially) and rather a lot of red wine later I finally stumbled to bed still despondent but no longer crying.

Of course this morning after a chat with Peter, during which he marked my paper under exam conditions, I found that actually I had done rather better than expected and would in fact have passed that part of the exam without any problem. So of course today I am much happier and even considering doing a bit of revising this evening in readiness for tomorrow afternoon's exam.

So think of me at 1.30pm tomorrow and send me all your good vibes ... and everything you know about POPIMAR, JOI and the HASAW Act 1974!