Passing my exams

 I passed my exams! Yay!!

I was really worried about my exams. I had been in the middle of studying for my BA in Advertising and Marketing when I left Israel and lucky for me covid-19 changed the way my college worked and with the integration of zoom and online classes, I was fortunate to be able to get permission to continue studying from here under the condition that I return to Israel for my exams.

If I had not passed my exams, I would have been required to come back again to retake them and spend another few hundred pounds on flights and hotels. So when the results came in, I shouted out and screamed and more or less frightened the life out of my wife - sorry Babe! I was just so excited!

Why was I so exuberant? Well for years I have been dreaming of getting a degree. I think it started when my older brother, Avrom, who had won awards for managerial work, went to University to study management. I asked him why - he had already won awards for management and he's better than most - so why does he need to go to university? He answered me that he wanted to be better than the people he was standing next to, to know what they had learnt, so with his skills and knowledge, he could become better than them.

I loved that, but due to my work and commitments, I thought I would never be able to study for a degree.

Two years ago, I was talking to my boss, Gilad Kariv, now a member of Knesset, and he asked me why I did not have a degree.

I started researching options and found a course at the Ono College which was in the afternoon, I was nervous about going for the entrance interview and to be honest, I thought that maybe I should just give up and carry on my life.

But when I arrived and walked up to the registration desk, the guy doing registration said to me, "Josh what are you doing here?"

It was Yaakov Amar, a counsellor of mine from one of my yeshivot . It was in the same yeshiva where  they blamed me for causing problems and although I protested it was someone else , they didn't believe me. The only person who believed me and tried to help me was Yaakov. Unfortunately, it didn't help and I was thrown out of the yeshiva.

When I met Yaakov at Ono College, he reassured me and explained to me the different types of help I could receive while studying for the degree.

I signed up and was told my GCSE was sufficient and all I needed was to have then recognised by the Ministry of Education in Israel. I sent them my GCSE results and was told that you needed A-Levels to get into the degree program.

I was ready to give up but I turned to the then Minister of Education, Yoav Galant, who gave instructions they should accept me with my GSCE results.

These past two years have been hard work and the last exam was extremely difficult. I didn't think that I would pass but I did!!

This proves if you try hard enough and believe in yourself - you can do anything.


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