[Jewelry making - Article 00175] - Re: [Orchid] "Retraining" help wanted

[Patricia Hicks]

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    It's ALREADY Friday! And, I'm so sorry to just now be reading your
    long post. Please take the OUT option and get what money you can out
    of that dreadful class situation. Anything would be better than
    THAT! 

    I feel so badly for you in having to deal with insult as well as
    injury (to your car as well as hopes) that I want to write a long
    letter of encouragement. Don't give up, don't give in - EVER !!!!!! 
    That desire you felt must be protected at all costs - taking a loss
    on the tuition is more than enough cost. 

    I, too, have been hit by a deer. Fortunately no one was injured,
    even though my husband and new baby were asleep in the back. So we
    made venison! Husband knew how to butcher an animal and I knew where
    there was a taxidermist. We still have a gloriously handsome 8pt
    buck on the wall and when someone asks who bagged it I say, "ME, with
    my 88 Oldsmobile !" 

    So you must have that kind of attitude in all things - take even
    hurts and dings for learning and strengthening exercises, and it
    helps make them bearable. Use your outrage at the pitiful state of
    the school facilities to make a lot of noise about it. Tell them
    what you told us, cut to the main points. You will be able to do what
    you want if you want it hard enough. There are ways to retrain
    yourself if it's all that's available to you at the moment. Orchid
    will bolster your efforts all the way.  The archives are worth their
    weight in gold. Perhaps you have an excellent library in the area to
    get some of the wonderful books we recommend.  You might consider
    videos too. Just plug away at it and try to concentrate on one area
    at a time. You CAN do it.  

    I will write to you again soon. Just pull up your bootstraps, take a
    dose of determination, and get on with it - away from that awful
    class and worse, rude and mean and small minded person!  I am
    outraged with you! The instructor can't be worth much to let that
    kind of behavior go on. 

Best wishes for your quest,
Pat

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