Take to the Skies

Results day...not exactly the best time in the life of any student. It is a day filled with worry, prayers, and at the same time as great celebration, can be filled with deep mourning over an opportunity missed. Yet, on this seemingly dark day for many unfortunate, I consider this day to have been a great success for me. There is a very simple reason for this, and that's that after two long years at Cirencester College, I have finally got the grades I need to become an officer in her Majesty's Armed Forces, but more specifically, in the Royal Air Force.


It seems funny to me now that I never originally wanted to go anywhere near a combat zone. I remember the days sitting in School thinking that one day I wanted to become some kind of Lawyer, putting people behind bars and raking in a ton of cash...until I took a law taster session that is. I found it to be the dullest thing I have ever tried to sit through in my entire life! At the time, I had been in cadets for around a year, and that's when I realised that maybe if I enjoyed cadets so damn much, I should think strongly about the RAF

Enough about the past though...I'm sure you got enough personal history from my last Blog...and this is not an autobiography after all. Maybe one day, if I become some kind of war hero I will write one, but until then you have to put up with my mad ranting.

The path leading up to today should have been paved with concern and apprehension....and yet the truth could not be more different. It was instead paved with YouTube vids, bad singing, good friends and of course, copious amounts of booze. This combination succeeded in numbing the thoughts of a potential failure and sitting behind a Sodding desk for the rest of my days.

After listening to Bon Jovi's living on a prayer, I received my A-level results:
-Chemistry = U. Yes, I know it does not seem like a fantastic start, but I knew that was going to end badly. I revised like a beaver on steroids and I still came out with a fail...I guess I just don't have the talent for it
-General studies = D. Now I know everyone says this subject is a waste of space, but the RAF accepts it, so I win this round world. And seeing as they only wanted an 'E'...
-History = C to be honest, I had the E I needed before I even went into the exam hall.
With these grades, I have the Two A-levels I need to become an RAF officer, and the right amount of UCAS points to become an officer in any other of Her Majesty's armed forces. I’m rather chuffed. So hopefully, by September 2011, I will be at RAF Cranwell training to become an Officer of the RAF...I do believe there is only one appropriate way to end this post...

God Save the Queen!