Surprises
Posted by andyslack on 16 November 2008
The first of two surprises: Giulia is now a Highways Technician (it says so on her email signature) and studying again, this time for an HNC in some sort of civil engineering. Now, I always expected one of my children would be an engineer, but I would never have guessed it would be Giulia – the artistic one, the one who draws still life and makes jewellery out of beads. There y’go.
And that leads us to the second surprise, homework. A decade of studying art and music has not really prepared Giulia for logarithms, simultaneous equations and such, so I’m helping her with her homework. The surprise is, I’m over 50 now and still doing homework, although for the last 25 years I’ve been helping other people with theirs rather than doing mine. I had hoped when I left University, that would be the end of homework, but apparently not.
