Well, today was eventful, not in the best ways however. For a start I noticed my bike making funny noises through the park on my way to course, then i noticed it was a flat tire so i quickly made it to the nearest petrol station, long story short: with an attendant who did not seem to understand or speak any discernible english, my inner tube ended up exploded. At this point it was 7:30 am and not really anyone awake to help. Was told to try the local tyre shop which didnt open until 8am so was waiting around for a bit until it opened only to find the tyre shop didn't sell bike tyres... Did give me information regarding bike shops that there were none nearby.
I then managed to get a hold of one helpful family member, James (sometimes known as my dad) who gave me and my bike a lift to course, I was only an hour late and I had texted ahead (texted is not a word according to this spell check) also, in the evening Nigel helped me fix up the bike. Much appreciated.
Didn't seem to miss much, got the booklet for maths that I missed out on last wednesday and we did some more on flexi cables and things, I think it was an assessment but hard to tell with Wal's teaching, speaking of which we did a performance review thing for him today too. no news as to the result.
So a bit of bads today but was good to get to try out tools. (lots of borrowing of my new strippers and knives, although managed to cut myself straight away, 1-2mm gash in my thumb, still hurts a lot and bleeding occasionally) Tomorrow with Rob should be fun. looking forward to it then should be soldering on wednesday.
Hopefully no more injuries or breakdowns in the near future (or ever ideally but that's unlikely).
PS: Another big thank you to James and Nigel for helping me out. :)
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