1st week of ATPLs

The first week back at school has been more of a foundation week than a week proper. We have been getting up to speed with the group that will be joining us on Monday. The ATPLs here are split into 3 rolling modules, each of approx 2 months and students join inbetween each module. The guys that are coming on Monday will have either completed 1 or 2 modules and have been doing their exams during our foundation week.

The lectures start at 8.30 and finish at 5.00 so they are pretty full days, and will require lots of evening study to keep up, but this week has been a gentle easing in, the calm before the storm if you like.

In my last blog, I weighed up where I was going to live and you probably worked out quicker than I did where. Obviously, the one with a landlady who has a speedboat. I live with 4 students and a polish guy who has arrived since I have been here and is looking for work. They all seem pleasant enough and it shouldn't be any problem living here for the next six months.

It is a proper student house though. I realise now that nothing changes: Watching Neighbors(sic), playing worms till early in the morning, not washing up, that kind of thing.

I have also bought myself a new toy. A laptop. It is my first computer which seems a bit strange as I guess I am a bit of a technophile. It is a mid-range Sony Vaio and as far as expensive bits of plastic and circuit board go, is dead sexy.

Well, I've got to go and do a bit or reading now before the real start tomorrow. Not to mention a bit of feeding.