Guess what? 10 days late ...

This is sort of old news. I haven't mentioned it on my blog though as of yet, so I may as well.

Drum rolls please....

Wait for it...

I got a conditional offer from Oxford.

I still have a bit of difficulty with left and right.

I still cannot say stuff that begins with ch.

I am unorganized. I just throw things into my bag.

I may as well have been sleeping through all my maths lessons last year.

My family doesn't have much money.

I do not have a tutor and I did not pay for interview practice.

I am not coherent when I talk.

I repeat stuff.

I laugh midway through sentence.

I hardly ever see a sentence through.

I do not go to a private school.

I don't feel like Oxford material.

I feel as if they made a mistake.

Oxford wants me? That's so funny.

I only applied because I thought, why not.

I will try.

It is so easy for people to say, do not dream big because that is when you get let down.

But then trying is what counts.

I just wanted an interview.

I heard that it was 2 days in Oxford without parents.

And I thought, I just want to make it there.

And have a sort of most expenses paid two day holiday.

I wanted to be able to say, I was rejected by Oxford

but I still had the opportunity and tried to pursue it.

Because that is what matters, isn't it?

Trying.

I just wanted to say I tried.

And I did and it worked out even though I am not a genius or - in my own opinion - intelligent.

Though now I have the opportunity, I sure as hell won't let it go to waste.

I will try my hardest to get the grades.