foolfillment: the blog

I drove to college today, my lift having called in sick, it was pretty good actually, I like the freedom that having a car gives and I want to make more of it if I can, something I talked about later in the evening. Metal work in the morning as usual and I got the base for the just cut and formed, and even got as far as soldering it on just enought so it’s in place for next week. Next week is out last on sheet metal before swapping with the rest of the class who are on lathes and what not. I’m not looking forwardd to going back to that side of it, it’s not something I enjoy, nor feel confident while doing it - I suppose what I have to try to get out of it this year is to find out how to relate what we do in college to what we’ll teach in school (these things are vastly different, we learn nothing of any real relevance to schools in metalwork other than how not to set up a workshop) but getting the entusiasm for it will be a challenge.

A short morning session because Eddie Mack was in again going over machine safety, more of a lecture this time but useful nonetheless.

After a long lunch it was back down for woodwork, after last week’s performance I felt we should maybe put in a bit more effort and actually got a long way forward, more cutting veneers but at least we’re nearly at the end of that block (once you’ve cut 3 or 4 veneers then you know what can go wrong).

And then the evening, not really PDF but I feel like writing about it, remembering how to relax might become important when I’m a fulltime worker. We went over to friends of M’s through the uni surf club for dinner, which was awesome. Three couples and three courses, each based on cheese because of a lack of communication between ourselves. Excellent food though, I even enjoyed the mushroom starter. And then we went out to Bento’s for a drink or two, with the rest of the surf club. We resolved though to have a party at ours sometime and to make the most of living so close to beautiful countryside as we all have cars. One ot the people there I should say is doing a PGCE in Maths this year and is currently out on placement, it sounds pretty daunting going into a classroom for the first time knowing that in a year it’ll be your job.

And that’ll do.

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