Hey Blog! Three Saturdays ago, I attended the annual Humanatees Notaprom, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m writing about in this post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My tutor Jake runs Humanatees (i.e. he teaches the humanities subjects, but spells it like manatees) and once a year, he invites his GCSE and iGCSE students to an evening get-together. It\u2019s not a traditional school prom, but is a chance for all the students to meet each other and have a fun night out. I have been keeping you updated about my studying and exams over the past year, and this is the party at the end. I had got to know one person very well online, and was looking forward to meeting her and the other people from the class, as well as those who had done other courses. Jake has several hundred students, and I don\u2019t know how he manages them all, but many live overseas, so there were thankfully less than a hundred at the Notaprom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dress code was \u201ccrocks and socks, fancy frocks, shirt and tie or tie dye; anything goes!\u201d \u2013 so I decided I would wear my waistcoat. Then I realised that if I wanted to be able to take my phone, I needed an extra pocket of the right size in the right place. Therefore, I designed, embroidered, and hand sewed my own pocket on the inside of the left front panel of the waistcoat; this took a while, so I will need to rewatch whichever Sewing Bee episode it is in which you are shown how to make welt pockets before I make my next waistcoat! Still, it worked. One person brought a large quantity of flat caps like the one Jake wears for every lesson, and was distributing them at the Notaprom, so by the end of the evening I had acquired one of them too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the beginning of the evening till the food had arrived and the pizza bar was open was a couple of hours, so a lot of conversation, balloon games and table tennis took up the first half; then after pizza and chips, a lot more talking, many, many laughs and a spot of dancing. This was my first time dancing. It\u2019s most enjoyable, for anyone who hasn\u2019t tried. Another student had written a new song along the lines of an old tune, especially for the evening, so there was a little karaoke session where everyone danced to the spoof song \u201cJust Jake\u201d. We had so much fun over the evening, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll forget it. I made some new friends too, so I\u2019m looking forward to seeing them again next year or sooner than that. It\u2019s a pity there isn\u2019t something like it every month, but Jake would probably go mad if he had to organise it so regularly! We all had a great time at the Notaprom, and I will most certainly be going next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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