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Then the Financial Director retired through ill-health I thought I'd better brush up on my accountancy skills. The day in 2001 that I completed my Accounting Technician exams an Open University flyer fell out of my newspaper! I dusted off my flunked "O" level French and in 2001 I signed up for L120 Ouverture: Intermediate French and LXR122 Action in French (a stand-alone French summer school in Caens). I also did TU170 Learning online: computing with confidence in 2001 because changes in the requirements for the Diploma in French caused my study-buddies and I to drop French for a while. I tucked Y002 Openings: Living Arts into 2002 and the same year, using borrowed books we crammed for the L211 Envol: upper intermediate French course which we eventually did in 2003. In 2004 I did L310 Mise au Point: advanced French and achieved my Diploma in French.

Thoroughly hooked on the OU and realising that an actual degree was within my grasp I took A103 An introduction to the humanities in 2005 which completed the requirements for my BA Open and my degree was conferred on me at ceremony at the Barbican in September 20006 followed by some techie courses: Y162 Starting with Maths (2006), T189 Digital photography: creating and sharing better images (2008), and T183 Design and the Web (2009).

In 2010 I returned to languages with L195 Andante: beginners' Italian and in 2011 L150 Vivace: intermediate Italian and achieved my Certificate in Italian.

Currently (2012) I am working my way towards a BA Honours in Humanities with French by doing U214 - Worlds of English my penultimate course with the OU. Those of you doing the 2012B presentation can download the EMA FAQs by clicking pdf or doc for the appropriate file.

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed an absence of study in 2007. This was due to me being in danger of being bored to death whilst doing Y159 Understanding management - so I dropped it. My only failure :-(

Word of advice - don't ever do the first presentation of a course - unless you have no option!

Outside the OU I share a wonderful tutor with my friends Roisin, Valdeni and Julie and we met every two or three weeks for three hours Italian round my kitchen table.

A presto!