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As journalists will we ever get a lie-in?
When we got told we would have week 13 off everyone suddenly looked a little happier - there were smiles, a few chuckles about the lazy way we would spend our days and even a couple of 'yeses'.
The peaceful thought of long lie-ins and frolicking through the Christmas Markets seemed like a decent reward for the previous 12 weeks hard graft.
This dream however was short-lived. Whilst it's true that we do indeed get the' week off' - we do have to come in for EXAMS!
As a little treat before the weekend and the dreaded exam week however was the next 100 shorthand exam and this time I was ready (sort of).
Never before has holding a pen and writing seemed such a daunting task. Not only did I have to deal with leaving my favourite, lucky shorthand pen at home - yes, I do have one - I also seemed to have developed the shakes which didn't make for the best outlines!
However as quickly as it began, it was over. And we all sat there handing in our papers wondering if we sausaged the exam up.
Law began our week of terror and frantic reciting of defamation and contempt of court saw everyone looking a little paler than normal for a Monday morning!
Surely though, reporting the next morning would perk us all up a bit? Whilst we may have begun the exam flushed with nerves, the colour soon drained back out of our faces when we saw the papers topic - surgical kits contaminated with human flesh - really???
The exam left us all wondering where exactly do the NCTJ get these weird and wonderful, if not slightly sickening topics from? Being the inquisitive journalists that we are we googled them...
TRUE: Bertie the snake who disappeared down the loo, and we found he was actually called Keith.
SADLY TRUE: The premature baby body parts found in a sewer didn’t occur in Newshire, but was actually in Hull.
And the pensioners’ funeral stopped because of fireworks…? You guessed it: TRUE! It happened in good old Yorkshire. (Where else?)
Another truth, unfortunately, was that Public Affairs was up next.
For most of us this was the THE BIG ONE – but unlike the famous Blackpool rollercoaster there weren’t any (or is that many?) screaming kids and it wasn’t over in five minutes.
The week ended with a trip to Sankey’s –Manchester classiest venue, but well stocked with drink and the euphoria that comes at the end of a week of exams . We had a night to remember... apparently.
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