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Barbara-Helen Hill
because Canada is a foreign country, my two year certificate is not accept-
ed. What to do? Do the paperwork, write the letters and the proposals all
over again and take the required extra courses.
Well, now the proposals and letters are done for the special majors and
I’m scheduled to take the extra courses in order to graduate. Now what? Yep,
the financial aid office wants to talk with me again. Well, this time it’s the
meeting with The Man and he has written a letter that changes my status
from foreign student to NY state resident. That settles it. 'm now down to
only owing about $5,000.00 from the $17,000.00 they quoted me in
September. Okay, where is he? He’s not there. He’s gone? I hope so. Has he
gone back to Penticton?
Nope. He’s baa-aa-ck. I make the dean’s list in the fall semester. My
marks are in the A’s and B plus area and spring semester. I’'m expecting to
graduate with honours. Nope. Guess who is there at the records and regis-
tration office waving my transcript around and laughing? He is doing som-
ersaults when the lady tells me that the A’s and B pluses from the En’owkin
transcript does not count because it is a foreign school. According to them
I'm a good student, but not good enough, according to their records. Then
too there is the three awards I'm recommended for. Yep he is waving the
awards and throwing them up in the air where they land at the feet of some-
one else. The dean says I haven’t been at this school long enough to get the
Arts and Letters award for outstanding students. I've only been here for one
year. Okay I can live with that. I get the Art award and he is there with a
smirk on his face. Oh well, I'm proud of that and he can’t take that away
from me now.
Graduation is over. 1 got my BA and registered and accepted for the
Masters program. I'm on my way. Summer job of writing and researching
Iroquois History — just what I wanted and my arm is giving me trouble. Hard
to use the computer. Hmmm, could it be? Yep, I go to the school medical
office and guess who is sitting at the reception desk? He takes my history
and sends me to physical therapy. I played football as a kid, and now it acts
up. The arm is still sore, but I won’t let him win. I feel him every now and
then, jabbing me in the arm, and [ just get up and leave the area.
The book signing has been going well. Every little bit counts and on
Sunday I'm on my way to Rochester, N, to do a signing and reading at
Borders Books. 1I'm riding the bus and while we are parked at the stop in
Batavia, this young man gets out of his girlfriend’s car to get on the bus. The
bus driver is having a smoke and I'm reading my book. I hear a bang and
look up. There is the little blue car and a sign post rattling and kind of lean-
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because Canada is a foreign country, my two year certificate is not accept-
ed. What to do? Do the paperwork, write the letters and the proposals all
over again and take the required extra courses.
Well, now the proposals and letters are done for the special majors and
I’m scheduled to take the extra courses in order to graduate. Now what? Yep,
the financial aid office wants to talk with me again. Well, this time it’s the
meeting with The Man and he has written a letter that changes my status
from foreign student to NY state resident. That settles it. 'm now down to
only owing about $5,000.00 from the $17,000.00 they quoted me in
September. Okay, where is he? He’s not there. He’s gone? I hope so. Has he
gone back to Penticton?
Nope. He’s baa-aa-ck. I make the dean’s list in the fall semester. My
marks are in the A’s and B plus area and spring semester. I’'m expecting to
graduate with honours. Nope. Guess who is there at the records and regis-
tration office waving my transcript around and laughing? He is doing som-
ersaults when the lady tells me that the A’s and B pluses from the En’owkin
transcript does not count because it is a foreign school. According to them
I'm a good student, but not good enough, according to their records. Then
too there is the three awards I'm recommended for. Yep he is waving the
awards and throwing them up in the air where they land at the feet of some-
one else. The dean says I haven’t been at this school long enough to get the
Arts and Letters award for outstanding students. I've only been here for one
year. Okay I can live with that. I get the Art award and he is there with a
smirk on his face. Oh well, I'm proud of that and he can’t take that away
from me now.
Graduation is over. 1 got my BA and registered and accepted for the
Masters program. I'm on my way. Summer job of writing and researching
Iroquois History — just what I wanted and my arm is giving me trouble. Hard
to use the computer. Hmmm, could it be? Yep, I go to the school medical
office and guess who is sitting at the reception desk? He takes my history
and sends me to physical therapy. I played football as a kid, and now it acts
up. The arm is still sore, but I won’t let him win. I feel him every now and
then, jabbing me in the arm, and [ just get up and leave the area.
The book signing has been going well. Every little bit counts and on
Sunday I'm on my way to Rochester, N, to do a signing and reading at
Borders Books. 1I'm riding the bus and while we are parked at the stop in
Batavia, this young man gets out of his girlfriend’s car to get on the bus. The
bus driver is having a smoke and I'm reading my book. I hear a bang and
look up. There is the little blue car and a sign post rattling and kind of lean-
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