Results Day
It feels like just recently when I was sitting in the exam halls doing my GCSE exams, and I have been waiting (not so nervously *1) since mid-June for the results. I did well; Pathetic fallacy played its role as today was a sunny day and I got 5A*s, 6As which I am very happy with. Can't stop saying alhamdulilah (All praise be to Allah *1 ) for these grades because they've made me so happy. What's more is that all my friends did well, as did the rest of the school so the mood of today has been great. If you read my first post, you would have read that English was never my strong subject, and so one aim of the blog was to improve my literacy skills; but to my surprise it turns out that one of the A*s was in English literature! That grade of all grades was the most shocking, that single grade is what made everything sink in and actually reduced me to tears or relief and joy. It seems that I underestimated myself in some sense as I wouldn't expect myself to have gott...