Please tell me if it's the objective of the general public to make us instructors' lives as difficult as possible. I think I already know the answer sadly.
Take today for instance, I was waiting to pick up a pupil at the station today. I arrived at the alloted time and waited...and waited...and waited. 20 minutes later I decide to call the pupil on his mobile. I remembered that he had broken the little screen and it no longer works. I ring his house forlornly, he cannot possibly be there but I might find a relative there.
My pupil answers...Surprise!!!
"Oh you're there!" I exclaim,
"Yeah!" he says,
"What are you doing there?" I ask,
"I forgot my progress card" he says,
"Why didn't you ring me, I've been waiting here for 20 minutes." I ask,
"Aint got a mobile 'av I?" he says,
He adds, "Well I 'av now but I aint got no credit."
"But you're at home, surely you don't need a mobile do you? You have a landline. I'm calling you on it now." I say,
"Yeah, but I can't ring mobiles 'coz of me Sister ringing 'em all the time. Cost me Dad a fortune she did." he says,
"So you had no way of contacting me at all then?" I ask,
"Yeah!" He agrees,
"Why didn't you wait for me at the station and I could have driven you back to get your progress card?" I ask, applying logic to the situation, silly me,
"Dunno!" he reposts.
It's going to be a long course of lessons methinks.
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You know, I really miss talking to those peoples on the phone... actually I said that sarcastically but now I think about it, some of the calls were just too priceless.
In other news, I have another blog now (I missed writing the BRL blog so much!) that details my time in Mons, if you would like to check it out it's here: www.inmons.blogspot.com xxx
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