We have been preparing for this night for a long time and getting people ready for it too. It took a long time to organise people and tell them were to met on that special day. The weather for that day was nice for us that day.

We started off by applying to them for adult learning award. We were chosen out of 300 hundred people or so for this award. We were one of the groups of many people and groups who applied for the award. We have been preparing for it for weeks before. We were chosen by a group of jury of people at the award. We were at the top three places, because we had won before last year. We had to settle with a special award for continue learning. We got two sets of tickets because they thought we were a new group. The first set of ticket had each person name on them. The second set had the group name on them.

On the 16 May 2002 we started to get ready to go to the Adult Learning Award Celebration at 5 pm. All came in our good clothes apart from me because I was not to well that night for the night and to have a good time too. I arrived at 1.00 pm to meet the rest of the group and had a chat with them. The coach was there when I arrived we were to meet at South Bridge Resource Centre at 1.15 that afternoon, because the coach was leaving then at 1:30. Some of them early at the South Bridge Resource Centre they had some water to drink and something to some sweet to eat too. Outside the build the coach was there ready to go. Which was taking us all to Aviemore to the hotel where the celebration was to be hold in.

Before we left the building people telling us good luck at the awards celebration at Aviemore. We all walked out of South Bridge Resource Centre down the road a bit to the coach and the driver was waiting for us all. Alicia said, “The driver was that coach for us.” He said, “Yes it is for you all.” Then we all got on the coach that was they for us all. We walked on and seat down. Then the driver said “Is that all of you now.” Alicia said” will, another man was to be coming but he late and we can’t wait any long. So Alicia said to the driver, we have to start going, because we have to man outside Edinburgh.”

So the driver of the coach started the coach up and got on our way. The driver opens the window by his side a bite for us because it was a bit hot in side the coach. On the way Alicia give out some sweets to us that she bought before the trip began. Then the driver was speaking to her too. He was asked her why we were going to hotel and she said we have won awards for adult learning and our hard work too. She was also signing to to the deaf people there. The whole journey will take us 4 hours to get to the hotel. Before we could carry on the journey the to the hotel. We to pick another man outside of Edinburgh that was going to the hotel to for the awards celebration. The journey was great and there were a lot of nice things to see out of the window for us to see. On the way there I fell asleep while the other were signing to each other.

We arrived at 5 pm at the car park beside the hotel, which was beginning to get full of cars and coaches and bus too. The hotel was big and beautiful from the outside as we drove into, before we came to a stop. The grounds were nice and clear as well as they had nice flowers in garden too. We were a bit away from the hotel enters. We got ourselves ready to get off the coach and walked up to the hotel. As we walked in other people were arriving to at the same time as we were in cars coaches and bus too.

As we got to the enters there were the organiser waited to welcome us into the hotel. They all had their good clothes on and had camera with them too. So of them arrived in cars and some of them arrived in coaches like us. All the people came from different part of the country. You could see all the people talking to other people from the outside of the hotel to. In the inside you could feel the stress and tense of people. Who were waiting to see if they have won award for they learning and hard work too? As we walked in to one side of the room was a bill post to tell us our table that we would be sitting in. So we look at it to know our number of the table. Then we had time to settle down before all the stress level go up again.