Thread 25 - Covid Cohort - Christmas Trees, No Omicron Please!

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This is a thread for supporting all young people post GCSEs 2020, regardless of their educational setting. It is respectfully requested that all are supportive and helpful to each other. If you want to start a debate, e.g state vs private, please don't within this thread. Please also be sensitive when responding to posts about grades.

Some of us have been here since first thread back in yr10, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. Everyone is welcome. It is hoped this goodwill continues.

Our DS/DD may go down various paths (such as employment, apprenticeships, higher ed) We have decided, for anyone interested, they will most likely find us within the Further Ed board.

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Oh Volterra I’m sorry to hear that.

Enjoy celebrating whoamitojudge, great achievement for your DD to fulfil her dream.

Amazing achievement whoami, no wonder you are proud. Good luck to her in her new career.

Hoorah for you cabin crew. I think we have all enjoyed her journey whoami.

That’s so lovely WhoamItojudge, how wonderful for her.

Fab new Paddington.
Ah you must be so proud Who. Lovely when dreams come true

It's been a while since I last posted on this thread, but thought I'd update with some offers!

Business economics

Applied to -

Cardiff -
Southampton-
Bournemouth - offer
Reading - offer, inc offering to lower grade if he chooses for firm choice
Portsmouth - offer

Only sent off to UCAS on Friday! Really impressed with the speed of the offers, and such a relief as his predicted grades weren't as good as he was hoping for

Huge congrats to your DD @whoamitojudge it must be so amazing to see them achieving their dreams

@whoamitojudge

I just wanted to share with you all that today DD passed her last exam and is now a fully fledged cabin crew for Lauda Europe ( part of the RyanAir group) To say that DH and I are proud is an understatement. It’s been her dream since she was young and she’s gone out and got it. Shes coming home for Christmas tomorrow and for the first time in forever I’ve got Christmas Eve off ( retail worker) and DH will be working a half day from home! So happy right now. Well done to everyone getting offers and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas

More lovely news...excellent! Congrats to your Dd!

That is great news @whoamitojudge, very grown up, not sure how mine will get to be responsible adults any time soon!

@sofakingcool that is a very speedy set of responses! Nice to have dinner before Christmas, well done DS

Brilliant news @whoamitojudge, she sounds like a very focused and single minded young lady!

Great to get some offers in before Christmas @sofakingcool.

So sorry to hear about your DD not making it home for Christmas @Volterra. I hope she is not feeling too unwell?

Brilliant news @whoamitojudge !

Nice to have offers in quickly @sofakingcool

That is such a wonderful achievement for your DD @whoamitojudge! Congratulations! Enjoy your Christmas 😊

@whoamitojudge. Good news. She must be so proud and so excited.
@sofakingcool That was so quick, lovey to have som3 offers in plac3 before Christmas.

@Volterra I hope your DD has people with her, what is she doing on Christmas Day?

DS managed to get a final couple of carol concerts in yesterday, but now all 9 lessons and carols (today and tomorrow), midnight mass and Christmas service cancelled for his choir

Thank you all. She’s with her boyfriend at his relative’s as they legged it after negative PCR hoping to avoid it (I did say just because they can didn’t mean they should)They are both feeling pretty rough, their other 2 housemates less so. His poor relative looking unwell now too. So far that’s 7 out of 8 who were at their house last week gone down with it. DD has been mostly sticking to her room trying to avoid catching anything last minute and using a separate bathroom.

Sorry to hear about dd @Volterra. We had covid last Christmas and it was miserable. I hope none of them are too unwell with it and they at least manage to have a bit of fun. Such a shame she won’t be with you though

@whoamitojudge congratulations on your DDs success what a fabulous achievement. Two of my friends worked as stewardesses until one married a guy she met on a flight (cliche but he’s super nice) now she’s a doula.

The other worked in airline industry for BA until she was 30 had her kids and now works on private jets as lead hostess. Also training the girls and guys for the different protocols and service in the luxury market. She flies all over the world and loves it sooo much x

Fantastic news, whoami! Your DD deserves every success - she has been so focused on achieving her dream.

volterra, hope your DD, BF and family feel better soon. Never a good time to get Covid but this particular week is the worst.

No further offers here.
Bad news for us that Wales restrictions are kicking in on 27th; DH is waiting to hear what this means for his NY performances.

We’re off to see West Side Story this afternoon, followed by dinner, before everything changes again.

DS1's housemate has Covid and he was coughing a bit but it's over a week since he saw her and he had Covid in August so it seems unlikely. DS2 and I have been LFTing. If I get it again , I will not be responsible for my own actions.

Hope yours feel better soon Volterra. Such a myth propagated on various platforms (looking at you MN coronavirus board!) that no one feels poorly. I've known young people feel fine, but more have described feeling 'really ill'. Most youngsters aren't used to being ill so it does shake them.

Great to hear about whoami's dd, flying high in a plane near us very soon!

Pleased to read about more offers (and acceptances!) but sorry about all those affected by Covid. I had a day of running around like a headless chicken yesterday trying to find more LFTs before Christmas after finding out that BIL's ECV parents accepted their invitation to join us at the last minute.

It was the library that saved the day!

That's fantastic news @whoamitojudge, well done to DD. I wanted to be an air hostess (sounds quaint now, cabin crew) when I was about 12, i remember sending off for information to BA but I never pursued it. I don't think I had the first idea what was really involved.

Great news on the first thread acceptance too @PaddingtonPaddington.

Sorry to hear of so many covid / suspected covid cases, hope everyone gets through without being too ill. We are all consistently testing negative (pcr and lft) but a cold is circulating round the family and we have scaled back plans a bit so as not to spread it. Frustrating all round.

DS had his booster this morning, he's still under 18 but had two jabs earlier in the year as CV, it was a bit of a palava as they clearly aren't doing many under 18 boosters and we ended up being passed around the vaccination centre several times but everyone we dealt with was SO polite, friendly, kind, amazing service.

Yay great news Paddington - best Christmas present I bet.

So sorry to hear about all the Covid in the family Volterra and your DD not being able to be with you. Hope she recovers quickly from it and can get to enjoy a bit of the festive season where she is with who she's with.

Massive congratulations to whoami's DD on being a fully fledged cabin crew member. What an achievement in such a short space of time and to think this dream she's had for years now has come true.

What a shame re your DS choir Monkey. I will be tuning in to Carols from Kings tomorrow so that will remind me of all the disappointed choirs that can't perform. So sad after all the training and practising they've all been doing.

Piggy I wouldn't rule out your DS flatmate not being reinfected esp as August was some time ago now. Fingers crossed it's just a cough still.

Alsoplays enjoy West Side Story. We've not seen it yet but DD was a huge fan of Maddie Ziegler from Dance Moms so def wants to see it. To think she's 18 now and was 16 when they filmed it.

Have as Merry a Christmas as you can everyone and catch up soon 😁🎄

@Piggywaspushed my friend has just tested positive and she was also positive in august. She is double jabbed. I think if it’s a different variant then it doesn’t matter if you’ve had it before 😬

My friend's husband has just had it again after having it in August too, but very, very mild this time and no one else in the house caught it.