Summer Term 1958
7 May 58
I am enclosing three of the six photographs. Aren't they spotty. My hair has altered quite a bit too. On Friday I washed it and put that blue scarf around my head. John Woods asked me what I had done and said that it looked very nice. Was I thrilled??
The dance was gooorrrgeous. Cassy liked my dress immensly and I did just about every dance with him. Brian and Irene didn't come. I did a super quickstep with Ken and he taught me how to do a backward turn. Philip and I did the statue dance together again and Judy and Cassy paired up again for it. We were all determined to win and long after everybody was out us four were still going. My legs were shaking like mad in case I moved but after a bit the M.C. came on and said that they would never get us out and as we were all so good we had better share the prize - a box of Newbury Fruits. It was wonderful. I'm glad it ended like that. Both Judy and I felt wrecks afterwards. Then we swapped partners and I had Cassy and Judy had Philip and we danced properly. It was such a relief
On Sunday morning I watched cricket.
Judy fell over on Monday and wrecked her back. She is in the sick room. In the afternoon I went up to see her and Marion let us make toast on the Dispensary wing. When I went down to tea I was full of toast.
Yesterday I had aural up in the flat. It was lovely and warm up there. We had the electric fire on. The central heating has been turned off and it's absolutely freezing up here. It's like the middle of winter. I have had fibrositis in my shoulder for the last two days but it's gone now.
Did I tell you we are doing Haydn's Creation in choir? On Monday Ruth C-B, Irene and I were killing ourselves laughing. We had to sing the same note for about two pages. It was terribly funny. Dorothy was trying to play the piano and she kept on laughing as well.
Thurs 19 June
We had the French aural exam this afternoon at 2.0.c1ock. I was first. I had to read a passage and then answer questions about it. After that the examiner asked me a whole pile of general questions. I was in there for twenty minutes - the longest of everybody. Most people were only in there for ten minutes. At the end he congratulated Rog and Kenneth. He said we all spoke with a French air.
I haven't seen 'The Wages of Fear' - we were going to have it as the middle of term film but we cannot get it.
Well I must get back to swatting
All my love Pat