Our Stories

It was early this week, when, having exhausted my best of Billy Joel CD, I was singing along to the Human League classic “You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you. Don’t, don’t you want me. Don’t you want me baby”, with an Agent friend, that the idea for this week’s story came to me – I do all my best thinking in the car! I was also feeling a little guilty about the completely rosy picture I had painted in my last story as we did have to deal with a couple of Agent complaints early this week.

I was in a Parent/Student fair in Germany a few years ago. To set the scene these fairs are a bit like ‘speed dating’, you usually sit at a table, although this one was standing room only as it was a small venue. You then have a time slot to try and entice the people in front of you whether, Parents/Students directly, as in this case, or to Agents (who will then go on to promote the schools they have chosen). They then rotate, and you do your pitch all over again to the next people to arrive. If you have seen the film ‘Groundhog Day’ you will have an idea of what that might be like!

We are up and running and so far, so good. When you are in the summer school bubble it is surreal - time seems to go both slower and faster and you forget about the ‘real world’. However, it was a bit difficult to get away from the UK general election this week. Does anybody else think it is strange that the election was on July 4th, American Independence Day?

Yesterday, with a huge amount of prep all done, British Summer School welcomed our first arrivals of the summer. Students flying in alone or in small groups from all around the world. Our staff waiting at the airports with a big welcoming smile. Here we go again!