Start from the beginning!?! Ok then

I started the National Learning Network on the 11 of August 2008… That adventure would eventually become a roller coaster full of surprises.

The first sign was when I first started a course called Vocational Skills Foundation, were I got to explore different types of skills. Demonstrations and using the phone was and still is a massive challenge for me. That gap from leaving school and starting something new stressed me out so much that I actually became numb to the feeling. I forgot how being happy felt like. I forgot the value of being happy.

This lasted for a long time. My anger would come out at home, constantly thinking and wishing I could go back to that once happy person Id used to be. But while in VSF, you wouldnt hear a peep out of me. Needless to say there were times were I went to the ladies bathroom and started to ball my eyes out for no apparent reason. I just cried until the instructor would find me.

A year and a half later, surely I was more confident and I was ready to move on. Having sampled a course in Roslyn Park College, I got accepted and started in that June of 2010. Being the not so independent person I am today, I didnt have a clue how to go into town, never mind a 2 hour and a half trek across Dublin city. I had to get up by 6.00AM every morning, be on the bus by 7AM, then be on the luas by 7.10, eventually arrving at Connelly Station by 8.00AM, finally reaching Roslyn for 8.45. It is a trek I’ll never forget.

Sooner realising, i could have cut the journey time in half. I ended up getting a bus to the last stop and waiting for another bus to get to Sandymount (Where Roslyn was based)

In the coming months ahead, I would continue to become even more stressed, get a really bad headache that would last for over a month, then going back were it all began in 2008.

To be continued