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Esperanto Schmesperanto The exam results arrived in the mail today. It’s right there in front of me as I type. I hesitate tearing open the envelope. Will I head home in disgrace? Or will I actually be able to enter a university here in England, and study Law as instructed by my brother the Regent? Memories of the last year or so are whizzing thru my mind: My voyage to England via that cargo ship, most of the time on which I was beset by fevers no thanks to the malaria I’d contracted. My first year, living in a typical English village: getting to know the life here but not making much progress studies-wise Moving to Cambridge upon getting reassigned to another Tutor who finally managed to help me, getting me to study really hard. Sitting for the Littlego late last summer. Ah yes, what weird names these British people come up with. The Littlego - the examination that determines whether you gain entry into university here. The results of which are in that envelope, right in front of me. I still dare not open the envelope. Not when this conversation, which took place immediately after the English Essay paper, is still all too fresh in my head: Tutor: So, how did it go? Me: (grinning, confident) I think it went pretty well. Tutor: What topic did you choose? Cobbett’s Rural Rides *was* a choice, wasn’t it? That’s the safe choice I’d coached you on, after all… Me: Yes, yes, Rural Rides was one of the choices… but… Tutor: (sinking feeling) But what? Me: Well, this other topic caught my eye… and besides, I know Rural Rides almost by heart by now, it would have been boring for me to write about it. Tutor: (eyes wide and panicked) What other topic? What did you choose? Me: “An International Language” Tutor: (starting to hyperventilate) Pray tell, what do you know about Esperanto? Me: Esperanto? What’s that? I wrote about English lah! Tutor: Yes, Esperanto! That is the “international language” to which the examiners referred! Me: (feeling a bit sheepish) Well, I didn’t know anything about that, I’ve never head of it. To me, English is the international language. All you Mat Salleh’s speak it, don’t you? Tutor: You are *so* going to fail this paper! Me: (gulp!) And here I am, a few months later. Okay.... I'm reaching for the envelope. I tear open the envelope. I pull out the slip of paper. I open my eyes slowly . . . . Can I believe my eyes??? I PASSED! Whooohoooooo!!!! Wow, that was close! Looks like I’d obtained very high marks for all the OTHER papers, so I was allowed a Pass for the whole examination. Phew!!! Now to get a place in a good university…. (UPDATE: Have been accepted as an undergraduate in St Catherine’s College: one of the seventeen colleges that form the University of Cambridge! Wahooooooo!) (*lynne*'s note: This was written in 1922)

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(NOTE: posting this at 10pm on Monday 10th April 2006, which translates to Monday 9am US CST. Yes, that's a 13hr time difference. Just for the record :D)