Before you even begin the awe inspiring new year at the adults learning facility known as University you may be required to attend an educational day that tells you how long you will be allowed to grace their halls and how much money you will have to fork out once you have a job in the 'real' world.
My own such experience was full of sunshine and laughter a day that should be noted in my memory bank as the day they weren't joking.
As the second eldest child in a family that hadn't attended a university in well over 2 decades it was nerve racking and exciting. My older sister whom we shall call "Sissy" because I thought it sounded endearing and not offensive, had to defer her own first year due to the financial costs related to University.
I'm sure you understand those silly little habits we tend to have of sleeping and food that cut into time and money.As such I was determined that with my ever impressive bank balance, enough to last 1 year provided I still worked as a casual, I would not fall prey to the demons Billius Maximus and Foodicus Price-Go-Uppity.
But back to the 'jokes' they told us at the educational event...
To begin I recall a speech from students in their last year of study who with a broad smile on their face told us to "Say goodbye to your friends and family while you still can. You may as well be dead for the next X number of years." Naturally we laughed at this amusing little joke as their grins broadened.
In short I will end with this fact: I live with my best-friend, the boyfriend that is, and my best-female-friend lives but a mere one hours train ride away and I ran into her by accident; which means I was in the Capital city and just texted to see where she was so I could find her and this was more then a month ago now. I think I need more friends >.<
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