The Big Day · Monday September 10, 2007 by Lily
Rupert’s first day at college went well really. I took him in, we had to leave home at 7am, it’ll be 6.30am Thurs and Fri and I stayed in Manchester all day so that he could meet me at lunch if he wished, which he did.He had double English that he’s going to find really difficult. He had Geography, that is a new subject for him, though obviously we’ve touched on some Geography and he thought that seemed interesting and he could cope with it, and French where they walked in and were given a past paper straight away. He did really well getting next to the highest mark, the highest going to someone resitting it. Physics he hasn’t had yet and is a bit anxious about.
We travelled home together on the train. It’s a 70 mile round trip. If he can be taken to the larger station 4 miles away, there is a choice of trains every half hour, but if he can’t (I don’t drive) the trains only stop every 2 hours at our town station. Either way it is possible but he’ll have some early starts and late arrivals home as Dh has had to go back to work to pay for college and so some days there will be no option but to use the town station.
