[Amy]

The Graduate

The housemates have sat their final exam, but one had more to celebrate than the others.

Before Shell came into the House she asked if she might be informed when her degree results were published.

And so when her turn came in this afternoon's spelling bee - the final leg of their three-day school task - she was asked to spell the word "graduate" before being informed that she was one, and one with First Class honours at that.

Shell seemed pleased - bursting into tears before running out of the Dairy Room screaming and jumping in the hot tub.

The other housemates' turns at spelling a word were marginally less eventful.


Ahmed correctly spelt "parsnip" and Jason (after flashing his bum for the benefits of his housemates watching on the plasma screen on the lounge) knew which letters made up the word "syllabus".

Not so successful was former head boy Stuart, who stumbled over the last few letters of the admittedly tricky "onomatopoeia", or Portuguese-born Nadia who omitted the second "o" from "balloon", but accepted full responsibility when her housemates assured her that being a non-native speaker of English more than pardoned her. Daniel, also, failed to spell "entrepreneur" correctly.

Victor correctly spelt "reluctant", Becki "negotiate" and Michelle "poultry".

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