Last Day of TAFE

Today was Fixit's last day of schooling for his apprenticeship.  He still has a bit over a year to go of his crap pay indenture, which will consist chiefly of completing his SOE, (pronounced so-eee, or Schedule Of Experience, a logbook of every possible maintenance job to ever do on an aircraft) but he no longer has to cope with the stresses of That Course: the disruptive classmates, the instructors who know about aircrafty stuff but lack teaching skills, the having to buy his coffee from the Broadmeadows Shopping Centre, and the sheer slog of trying to get through the enormous and poorly structured workload.  He capped off his last day of his last subject by scoring 98% on his last exam.

His excellent brains and study habits meant that he was once again awarded Outstanding Apprentice for his results in Second Year.  You may remember that when he won this award last year, he received an invitation to a slap-up dinner for both of us at the TAFE award ceremony in a posh-ish reception centre, plus a cash prize of $200 and a further $100 voucher from his own employers in recognition of his achievement.  This year the Award Ceremony was a daytime event with tea and biscuits (we decided to give it a miss), the prize had lost its sponsorship, making it just a certificate in the mail, and his work gave him 2 movie tickets.  And no, they weren't gold class tickets.

When she heard about this, Fixit's Aunty Judith was disgusted, and this is what she sent him.  I think it is totally awesome of her.