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Welcome one and all to my final shorthand blog of our 20-week course, in association with the Frank Sinatra classic, My Way!
It’s such a cliché but I really don’t know where the time has gone. One minute we’re all here on the first day, moaning about how hot the room is and the next, we’re strolling out of Revolution after our end-of-course bash in the early hours.
I’ve waited until now to write this last blog because I knew I was too emotional in the final week!
I decided to take a risk by leaving my unfulfilling admin job and do this course over a year ago. I had always wanted to be a journalist, and getting a degree wasn’t enough. I have to admit, shorthand was the scariest prospect and looking back over all my blogs, I’m glad to see my progression in black and white!
We all knew shorthand would fill our lives and in some cases, take over it completely.
I was so pleased to win the chance to write the shorthand blog because if anything, it gave me somewhere to rant about how rubbish my shorthand week had been.
We even had shorthand hairs and shorthand spray paint, which cemented our love/hate relationship with all things Teeline.
Whether you passed in November, December or January – you passed. You have a skill that many would be jealous of, and you got it in five months (or in many cases, even less). Amazing.
Every heart-breaking fail at a text will be erased by every relieving pass, and if you admit it, you might end up missing those reeeaaally long shorthand lessons
So, the final ROLL OF HONOUR goes a little something like this:
14th January – 100wpm
Kevin Burke
Tamsin Eames
James Johnson
Craig Jones
Paulyn Lloyd
David Mayor
Rick Redman
Peter Stanners
Will Unwin
Ross Wittenham Fisher
21st January – 80wpm
Anna Mauremootoo
21st January – 100wpm
Kevin Burke
Tamsin Eames
Peter Stanners
Will Unwin
Ross Wittenham Fisher
21st January – 110wpm
Tom Redfern (I’m so jealous!!)
21st January – 120wpm
John Dickens (Shorthand hero)
Connie Primmer (Doing it for the girls)
Jack Travers (Travers is IN the game!!)
So, whether you passed once or twice – well done to all! Special mention to our centre manager, Jack Travers, for loving shorthand so much that he passed 120wpm when he possibly didn’t need to.
I thought he just sat in on readings to be ‘in the game’ for no real reason – turns out, he’s a shorthand genius.
I know there’s a few people waiting to pass – but you WILL get there in the end.
You can probably tell that I don’t want this blog to end by the length of it, but I will really miss writing them, probably just as much as I’ll miss seeing the same faces Monday-Thursday, drinking a hell of a lot of tea and eating everything that Greggs makes.
I’ll sign off by saying this – thank you so much to Paul and David for getting us through shorthand (dragging us when we needed it) and good luck to all the fabulous friends I’ve made on this course. I’m very sad that it’s all over but I’m sure there are plenty of reunion nights out on the cards.
Until then, in the style of the last dance at a 60th birthday party..
And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I travelled each and every highway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say not in a shy way
Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way
Hannah xxx
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