EXAM DIARY:The exams are nearly over and soon it will time to take up football full time again
WHEN I sat down to write an account of how Irish went, I couldn’t remember what was on the paper.
I left the exam hall at 11.30am and by lunchtime the information was gone.
The panic welled up, making it even hard to get a grasp of what had just happened to me and I got a sense of the fragility of my brain.
Is that it? Has my head purged itself of everything I ever learned?°
I hope that it’s just a temporary phenomenon brought on by the mild feeling of excitement that has gripped me since leaving down the pen this morning. It’s almost over. I will soon join the ranks of people who have already done the Leaving Cert.
French tomorrow is not an important factor in my points quest for business in DCU, so I’ll probably be more relaxed for that exam than any other, even though my French is preposterous. Uafásach.
I will dabble in a little French vocab this evening, just a light splash, like eau de Cologne. I’ll need some postcard lingo of the wish-you-were-here variety, just to give me something to do while I wait for French to be over.
I wish I was there. I won’t be getting a holiday this year. My match and training schedule is not letting in much light.
In between playing football I’ll be training the next generation at the local GAA Cúl Camp.
After my painful separation from the ball this month I’ll be glad of the saturation. The closest thing I have to a game this week is a French exam on a basketball court.
That’s not strictly true – I’ll be training tonight and we’ll get a little spar at the end.
It’s a regular training session but we’re all thinking about the next big game now, against Roscommon on the 20th.
There’s the little business of economics and accounting to deal with in the run-up, but I think luck’s on my side for those subjects. I won’t need a rabbit’s foot to balance the books because, after tomorrow, everything’s coming up O’Shea.
Aidan O’Shea is a student at St Gerald’s, Castlebar, and an inter-county footballer with Mayo
