This moment
should have happened one year ago. This moment should have not happened in the comfort
of my own room in Finland. This moment should have been spent with some of the
most wonderful people on this planet earth. Well this moment happened a week
ago, this moment happened in Oulu not in Flekke and this moment was spent with some
other magnificent people.
The moment
I am talking about is the celebration of my last IB exam. The last word for the
IB was written on Friday the 15th May 2015 at approximately 14:30. It
was for a History SL exam. I wasn’t even supposed to write that exam if
everything went like planned. The last exam was supposed to be Global Politics
HL paper 2.
Well life
doesn’t always go as planned.
Things
happen and one must react to these things.
I reacted
on 3.10.2013 by leaving UWCRCN. The reasons are numerous, but the main reason
was to get my health back. I felt like this could be done best at home.
On that day
I decided I would return to the Finnish School system and forget any dream of
an international education and career. I have to be grateful for the principle
of my current school for questioning my leave from the IB. I decided to give
one more try. And I made it.
After
studying bits and pieces of over 10 IB courses and taking one extra year to
complete the IB, I am done with the exams. Although I do not know the results,
I feel confident in my exams and of passing them. Regardless of the diploma
points, I am proud of overcoming obstacles I didn’t ever anticipate to
face when accepting my scholarship.
This is to
thank all of you who have supported me in anyway and anywhere. Thank you from
the bottom of my heart for the help and without you I wouldn’t be writing this
today. You know who you are.
