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Entry tags:	awards, german, history, media, renaissance, results, romans, video games

Notify the Provinces!
I've been writing an update in word as the internet has been so bitty here lately, but I'll do an update now whilst it is still behaving itself.

I just opened my letters. My credit balance, my tickets for Monday and Tuesday, and...well, a pleasant surprise. It certainly throws Tuesday's update upside down, anyhow.



20th June 2006

Dear (me)

I am writing to inform you that on the basis of your excellent work in German throughout the year, you have been awarded the department's J G Robertson Prize. This prize was founded in 1934 in memory of Professor J G Robertson, Professor of German at Bedford College from 1903 to 1933. Its value is £40 and I include a book token for that amount. We are delighted that you are receiving this award and send you our warmest congratulations.

With best wishes from all, Professor Dan Wilson, Head of School

My first reaction was vaguely '...what?!' and then closely followed by 'yay!'. Mayhaps I'm doing the right thing afterall! Clearly the language was not bad enough to drag down my marks for literature and history. Hurrah! I can put this on my CV too now :)

Furthermore, I shall be in the audience for Any Questions? tonight. The BBC Radio 4 political panelist show is being recorded from my old school hall tonight as part of Dr. Edward's grand plans for the school's 75th anniversary, and Dad got tickets for us. I may get to ask a question, but having seen Question Time last night, I know pretty much what will be discussed. The London Bombings, for example, which I heard about roughly this time last year from a converted barn in remote Norfolk.

I'm semi-slipping into a romantic phase again, I think. Maybe it's been there all along, but I've not felt enough at ease as to act upon it. Watching a Tudor wedding on TV with all the lovely renaissance costumes, and then reading a romantic story based on first century Rome...there's much that can be said for historical romanticism. Sometimes I wish I had a mirror to the past, to see the people of 6AD and how they lived. Celts and Romans were more than Celts and Romans, they were people too. I won't be coming close to studying that area at uni next year, but it's still fascinating in a way that studying lives of people in the 1950s isn't...

I'll leave you with an inspired statement from the blacksmith in Shining Force II, which I completed a few days ago.