My Life Part Three Leaving School

So the time comes to leave school and see what is in the big wide world for me, the process when I was at school was you went to see a career adviser and tell them which career

choices you had made, and then you would be given advice as to which particular career would suit you best.In our particular family especially on my mother’s side of things, she had always had people who had been in the police force, it is a well-paid job and it was always assumed that is what I would do when I left school for a job.

When I went to the careers adviser I told her what I wanted to do and she told me the best thing for me to do was get better qualifications, by going to college because my grades that I had wouldn’t be in order to get it in the police force.

So it was arranged that I went to see a principal at a college in Nottingham with my mother, however it didn’t quite go as well as I expected it to, when we were talking he was looking at my grades from the school. And more or less told me I would be better looking for a job rather than going to college and getting better grades.

I must say I was rather disappointed by what was said to me at that particular time. I think the main reason being was that my mother was feeling, probably quite let down because she always wanted me to do well with my life. Little did I know that person’s decision would dramatically affect my whole life as we shall see later on.

So as it came to leaving school everything was a bit up in the air shall we say, I had no job to go to or anywhere else for that matter. I think now at this particular time I probably had mixed feelings about leaving school I suppose really you could say it about anything in particular really you don’t tend to think about things until they are really upon you.

So came the day that I had to leave school and I can always remember being on the bus, and a particular song playing as I went there and having butterflies in my stomach as I traveled towards my school. Just a year before we had moved houses so I had to travel to school on a bus.

Whereas before it was just a five-minute walk I was there, so I get to school and we have the morning assembly and now you are sitting at the back as fifth year students, it’s quite strange really because when I first went to that school.

I started out as a third year student, and I can remember every year at a certain particular time say about April or May time when the fifth year students would leave school, you don’t tend to think about it too much when you’re sitting there having the morning assembly.

All you tend to think about is this well they are leaving and I’m not and carry on as normal, so we go through the rigmarole of the egg and flour routine and water bombs etc that you get pelted at you when you leave school, and then once that was over you go home covered in eggs and what ever else has been thrown at you.

A couple of months before this happened I became involved in my first-ever relationship with somebody, I can vaguely recollect how it happened but I was quite friendly with some other friends from school, and he was seeing another girl at the time.

And she had a friend who expressed the interest in me I must say at the time I was quite surprised, because it really did happen, out of nowhere having not much luck with members of the opposite sex for such a long time.

And then all of a sudden being with somebody did seem quite strange to me, all my other friends had interest from members of the opposite sex except me so when it did eventually happen I was quite overjoyed to tell you the truth because it’s something I never expected to happen.

We spent a bit of time on the park and then she grabbed hold of my hand as if to more or less say we are together now, I must say it did seem really strange to me holding the hand of female for the first time, I was coming up to about the age of 16 at that particular time so I suppose you could say I was a bit of a late developer when it came to members of the opposite sex.

So on this particular day it was time to go home, she grabbed hold of me and we stood next to a wall and started kissing, I must say at the time this is one of the most strangest experience I’ve ever had in my life I can’t knock it though because I did enjoy it and it was my first kiss ever.

She even French kissed me as well which I didn’t quite know what to make of at first, this is where you touched each other’s tongues, I don’t quite know what that significance was at the time and even now I’m at the age that I am now. I don’t think I still even know now really thinking back about it.

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