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.