It was the night before.... EXAMS!!

So, tomorrow all my students sit their exam. I am possibly more nervous for them than they are. At least, I'm nervous for some of them - others are not a worry. But there are others who have tried hard, and Old English still doesn't make any sense to them.

And for those who haven't even tried, I will feel great justification in failing them if they fail. There is no excuse. We gave warnings at the beginning of term, that this wasn't one of your easy, read-the-text-and-come-to-the-exam English papers. This is a language paper, which requires time and effort, even though the language is dead and gone.

That's one of the problems for those to whom it don't make sense - many people don't understand about learning a language. It's not something which has one solution, either. People learn languages differently.

Part of the thing which is worrying me, however, is that certain people haven't come for help, or emailed me. I'm not planning to be in my office over lunchtime tomorrow - because it's my niece's first birthday, and I plan to celebrate that. By lunchtime, it would be too late to do much good, wouldn't it? I don't know. I've tried to be helpful, but I don't know how well I've done with this batch.

Ah, well, out of my control now. So we'll go and watch the US mid-terms with the Woverines, and not be too hopeful.