The Leaving Certificate is the final, state-run examination which marks the end of our school cycle. After this students, depending on their results and upon their wishes, can go on to university or some other college, or out into the world of work, or, as it is known now in Ireland, unemployment.
Tinson2 starts his Leaving Certificate exams tomorrow.
He is eighteen now, and stands almost at a door between two worlds, one foot still in childhood, the other stepping towards the door into adulthood. After tomorrow that foot will be through the door and th other foot will have lifted from the ground to follow it. He will still be a teenager, wonderful and bewildering, daft and then brilliant, filling you with frustration and then with joy.
The ultra-laid-back manner which makes him such a lovely person has not been a great advantage when it came to studying and preparing for these exams, and I worry for him and for how he might get on.
But whatever happens he is still our magnificent, maddening, charming, baffling, super son, and we love him for that, for the amazing person that he is.
All the best tomorrow, my son and my friend.
Worth Doing Badly 
May the right questions appear tomorrow and in the following days.
Good luck Tinson2 – I hope it goes well for you.
OH Tinman, I feel like I have followed your children through their milestones for the last five years….*feeling proud*…
Best wishes and Good luck to Tinson2. May the Force be with you.
Congratulations and good luck! May that luck last not only through his exam, but also take him to marvelous places as his future opens up before him.
Lots of luck! 🙂
You’re going to need it… 🙂
God Bless!
Prenin.
Well tman you can always send him out to the colonies, traditional with 2nd sons, to make his fortune or lie about on a beach. He sounds like an Aussie, the laid backness. Good luck to him