Whoops

Just realised tonight that I forgot to do a post on Wednesday night. Not much new this week, did some more on earthing, pretty much finished that unit now but I think it will require a lot of revision to remember all the regs BS.

In other news I just applied for an interesting sounding apprenticeship in a security company, installing cameras and alarms and the like. Think it could be really interesting, there were no applications as of Wednesday but I think since Andrew announced that there may be a few more now..

Anyway not much else new. I'll try to remember to update this on the day, when we are doing more interesting stuff it might be easier to remember talking about it heh.
until then have uhm.. this smiley 8D.

And so we're back... From outer space...

The holidays have gone fast and we are now back to studying dangerous stuff to be working with already. This year it will be different as I am only doing the course part time due to the February full time course being... full.

So for now I am only able to learn 3 hours a week and it will go from now until December but it should still be fun (and maybe only one post a week will be less annoying).

So we had our first evening back, usual admin starter stuff but the good news is our tutor will be Andrew who I found to be one of the top 2 tutors from last year. Always a plus especially as level 3 is a big jump up from level 2, supposedly double the workload (so maybe good thing it is only part time). Already on the first standard (earthing) it looks a bit tricky but that is mainly to do with regulation legalspeak. seems pretty simple apart from that, expanding on what we did last year.

Now the only thing still to sort at this point is studylink which for anyone who has had any dealings with them knows is not to be underestimated. Even if all I have to do is tell them my course started today and I am doing part time instead of full time.

That is all for now.. but it is just getting started....

B.

2. Nothing left to do / 1. And we're done!

Here we are, course finished! Sorry I didn't post on Tuesday or yesterday, was a bit busy finishing and celebrating finishing course. It's kind of a shame but the feeling of finishing was worth it. Now I've gone blank, thought of a lot of stuff to say over the last few days but all gone, lets see whats happened. Well Tuesday was mainly spent frantically trying to finish practical assessments which was pretty good, took a bit longer than expected I ended up being there until about 2pm. then a few of us hung out at the house just down the road where one of us just happened to live. That was alright. Then yesterday was slightly more eventful I guess. Had barbecue for lunch, I went in a bit earlier and did some desoldering, taking capacitors etc off a power supply i pulled apart a few months ago while frustrated with my computer not working. Then lunch was good, usual kinda thing and got our meters. (Sadly no function to charge my capacitors, both extracted from psu and my home-made one) Was good. Then a few of us went again to the house down the road, a few more this time, had a couple of drinks and the like. Acknowledging that it was over as you do.

That's about all that happened in the last couple of days of course that I can remember for now but it has been a good few months, learned some interesting stuff and met some interesting people. Some that will be kept in touch with and some that I unfortunately cannot remember the surname of and therefore can't add on facebook :(. But I am sure I will see many of them next year in level 3 or meet them and other 'colourful' characters in the industry in the future.

I shall resume blogging at this point in February 2012 when I start level 3 at this point.
Until then I will try to keep in touch with those I can and try not to hurt myself or any of them with electricity. (Or anything else for that matter)

B.A.

3. Just about free.

Here we are, the final week all wrapping up now. Some finished the practical part today and so get tomorrow off, I was hoping to do that or atleast finish it on Wednesday so I can also have tomorrow off but apparantly that is not allowed (somewhat stupidly) as we all are going back on Wednesday for the barbecue and getting our free meters. So now I have to go in for about 2 hours apiece the next couple of days, then Might have to spend all morning there on the Wednesday with nothing to do due to ride arrangements but will see. Might be able to persuede my way into the soldering room for some shenanigans. Anyway it will still be good, happy with the progress I made today and over the whole course overall, learned a lot, but let's leave that for the final post otherwise ill rant all night twice. So not much else to say, I'll finish my practical assessments tomorrow morning, hopefully others from my class there, I can think of one or two that should need to come along too.

Also discovered a great App for android from one of my coursemates today, I would definitely recommend for anybody who is technically minded (or not as it kind of does all that for you) lets find what it's called again.
Electrodroid, very cool does lots of stuff.

Anyway that is enough for this evening, I will leave you all with a lesson in karma I saw today that made the day that much more hilarious (those of you that have me on facebook may have seen it, but I am posting anyway as some do not

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/thief-steals-computer-stabs-marine-trips-and-falls---slightly-injured/question-1617789/

4. Just one week more

Hey, sorry I didn't post last night. Yesterday was pretty good, we had our last theory test which I was actually confident about going in unlike many of the others and it was a joke, consisted entirely of multi-choice and true/false questions... so got through that in 15-20min and had a lot of time to spare.

In the afternoon we had a few things, first we had to do the literacy and numeracy tests we had done at the start of the year again (I think I did worse in literacy than the start) and a survey. After that we started our practical assessment book in the last period which we will be doing for the entirety of next week (unless we finish before that) it doesn't seem too hard so far, just tested appliances but will see how we go. Then I am done with this course and desperately need to find an apprenticeship or holiday work at least.

Just now upon looking for a particular CHRISTCHURCH job I was told about I found this....

Casual Sales Professionals - Christchurch

Listing #: 420113297

Location:	Christchur­ch City, Canterbury
Listed:	Tue, 01 Nov
Type:	Part time, Contract/T­emp

We have opportunities in the Auckland area for talented individuals looking to take the next step in their career..........

5. Gettin' live

Well this day was slightly easier than expected, basically consisted of revision-test-revision-test and found them a lot easier than expected, partially because of the good revision periods before hand but also because they seem to be able to make tests as easy as possible with things like multi choice or fill in the missing words kind of thing, so not too bad pretty sure I'm safe for those.
 Otherwise not much else to report, just tomorrow and next week left which will be all practical, except the extra test tomorrow that they forgot to give us before, but if it is anything like all the other tests we have done so far, it shouldn't be too bad, then should be starting the practical stuff and doing that all next week, or until we finish it.

Then we get meters for passing the course hopefully. More news on that tomorrow.

6. No new tricks.

Second to last week off to a... very dull start. Starr has done the impossible.. Managing to do something for 20 years and (apparantly anyway) not get any better at it. Seriously listening to him sometimes is less exciting than a commentary on watching paint dry in the desert. So did a bit of lab book, finishing it up. Nothing else notable. In the afternoon we had Wal for "practical" which consisted of some working out where we are up to in the practical book, working out what theory assessments we hadn't done yet (not only have 2 tomorrow but now have one on wednesday aswell) and various other examples of Wal being useless. after the afternoon break only me and one other guy showed up, because he had a resit to do. Wal was quite disappointed in this it seemed, but he still let us go quite early after doing a couple of little practical things over about 5 minutes he let us go as theres not much point doing anything with 2 students (hey he didnt have anything to do for the previous session so doubt he had more for this one) The one advantage of showing up is he gave the 2 of us a contact for a possible apprenticeship (A friend of Wal's tho so may be useless). Overall mostly worthless day but we did sort out some stuff for our tests tomorrow and practical stuff apparantly.

For now I shall worry about my 2 hardish tests tomorrow.