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Fiona's LettersTAFE Motor Mechanic Training Course for Girls Week Nine Hello Faithful Newsletter Readers, Week 9 and heading into the second half already. It doesn't feel like 9 weeks have been completed - I must be having too much fun. Drum roll, please...........(c'mon - use your imagination!) Miracle of miracles - I start work experience tomorrow! So a big thank you to everyone for their positive vibes, words of encouragement and offers of contacts if needed. Also, a very special thanks must go to my good friend, Brett, who kindly gave me a top rate backpack so I don't need to juggle all my stuff to and from the car and classroom everyday. If anyone is on the market for an excellent backpack for school, I can recommend the RackPak - it's certainly far better than a lot of the ones I've seen for sale in the stores. (OK, gratuitous product endorsement shall end now). But back to the work experience thing - I ended up calling David at the Kenthurst Caltex on Monday afternoon and he apologised for not calling back sooner but I was more than welcome to start on Monday morning for 2 weeks. He did ask, though, if I was OK about getting a bit dirty and having to work with boys. As long as I don't have to get dirty with.........OK, let's not go there, shall we? Err, no - I don't think I have a problem with grease or having to work along side blokes but thanks for asking, anyway :) He seems to be a pretty down to earth kinda guy but a little nervous about having a female around the workshop - hopefully, he'll feel a little more at ease by the end of the week. Anyhow, I'll be riding my bike to and from - about a 10k round trip - so that will be a new experience! I had a trial run on Saturday and made it OK - it's either that or walk and I don't fancy that much. All right - this week's absentee excuse - toothache. A rare, 24 hour toothache that was in no particular tooth. We're still getting assessments but some have been practical ones this time. Last week's steel plate project was finished off and I got equal top marks with another classmate. I was pretty happy since I had to do some creative filing to fix a couple of faults with mine but it looked the goods for the final marking and that's what counted. Then we went on to making bolts (not for the door) from a plain piece of steel rod. We made a tread at both ends, of different sizes, and then corresponding bolt holes in a carbon steel block using the bench drills. (Mmmm, power tools). One of the threads on the bolt was bashed with a hammer and I then had to fix it - no drama there, either. Finally, one of the bolt holes had to be bored out and a replacement thread (helicoil) had to be fitted. Next lesson - after work experience - we have to screw the bolt into the hole and hacksaw it off so it can't be taken out easily. We'll be using a tool called an "eziout" to remove that. We also had more tests on steering and suspension systems - the results of which will be given out when TAFE resumes again. Again, I managed to finish those without feeling I'd botched them so, fingers crossed. For those of you who have been wondering - my hands are still clean and don't look any different from when I was in the office every day. However, as of tomorrow, that may all change and I will have to stop biting my nails because the taste will be awful. Unless I develop a taste for grease............... which I seriously doubt. Well, here goes for tomorrow so think of me as you ease into your padded office chair and check your e-mails - I will be on my back with the boys. (There's one hell of a rumour to start!!) Until next week - cheers! Fi xx ;) |
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