I'm at college at the moment, I'm at Woodlands campus, I'm doing English and IT, which I really enjoy, it’s great. We’ve done entry 2, had that exam, and passed that, now in going on to my entry 3 in English, hopefully I'll pass that one.

We’ve got one coming up for our IT, an exam; we don’t know when that is, it should be soon.

At my age, we didn’t do all of the exams what they do today, and if you did sort of, if you were slow, you know, you just got left behind sort of thing. Wanted to improve my writing and my spelling, I have come a long way now. I've got more confidence, that’s the best thing.

I've improved my writing, learnt a bit more with my English, a lot more in my English than I did do when I was at school. Learning my spellings more, I'm progressing really, and I've got some passes so I can put them on my CV, which I didn’t at school, cause at school we didn’t do none of that. And there’s more technology today now, I didn’t do no IT, where there’s more IT today. I didn’t even know how to switch a computer on or off! And now I do, and I've learnt a bit more on there and on the Internet. It’s really helped me a lot really; give me the more confidence that I've got. And to go and look for a job, at least when I do show my CV, I've got something down on there, whereas I wouldn’t have before, before I went to college, I didn’t have nothing.

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