Well, training's going well. I now know how much I don't know...
I'm glad it's Friday! It's very tiring, learning. I only seem to remember what I am currently working on, yesterday's session is a long forgotten memory. I've even forgotten what it's like to learn. Perhaps that's because the last time I was in a training room I was the trainer and not the trainee! It's really annoying because I have all the knowledge in my head somewhere, but I only seem to be able to remember it at exactly the wrong time, that is, exactly one second after the trainer tells us...
It's very cold here also. And as I think I have already told you, I came very unprepared. It's snowing again today, quite heavily. I really will have to go to the shops and buy a coat to go with my new hat. Only trouble is, to get to the shops to get a coat to protect me from the snow, I have to brave the snow, wearing my very un-snow-proof jacket...
The training center is in a residential area and now, because its lunchtime, some children are playing on the road because they have been sent home early from school. It's funny listening to them shouting and laughing in delight. We are on ground level, and can watch them through the window. If they spot us watching, they throw a snowball at us!! Not fair, I want to throw one back, then run and hide behind a car, or a tree, or an adult.... Every time I look out I can see that the snow is piled higher and higher on the cars. More ammunition for the children!!We finish at 4pm today, wonder what it will be like by then?
On the tube now, off to see my brother his and family for the weekend! We are travelling overground at the moment and everything looks lovely covered in its fluffy white blanket. Had to run the gauntlet to get to the tube station, past the children from earlier. Although they seem to have morphed into unruly teenagers in a few hours. Teenagers with a good eye for their target. It's not easy to run on a slippery path, ducking, and trying to hold on to my overnight bag and my dignity at the same time. Those swear words I learned last week are proving very useful. I didn't have time to fight back!! Not fair again...
Nothing IT related worked very well today, I think the systems were a bit like my brain, information overloaded!! So we finished early. I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend being spoiled by my family, the London branch(s) of the Brennan clan. I'll probably have to duck a few more snowballs there too. Pesky teenagers.
Although my eight year old niece is eagerly awaiting my arrival. Not so that she can fling snowballs and abuse at me, no, she wants me to help her make cup cakes. She might have to bribe me with a glass of something first. Just medicinal, of course, to help me get over the trauma of a week in a training room with a Belgian trainer, whose English, (much better than my Belgian) made me laugh, a lot, to myself. Also, he finished most of his sentences in typical Hercule (the only other Belgian I know) style, with 'voila' like he had just discovered something amazing.
I hope I'll be discovering something amazing when I get off this tube, like it has stopped snowing! We're underground now and my view has gone from white to black. Some contrast! And we have also been delayed because of a signal failure further up the line. So I'm just sitting here looking at the inside of a tunnel. Now the lady who makes the announcements is telling us that we are going to move slowly and then come to a sudden stop, as part of a controlled exercise. So we all have to sit down quickly and hold on tightly. Jeez.. The excitement of it all. I feel like I'm an extra in some bizarre runaway train disaster movie...
I wonder what topping my niece wants to put on her cup cakes... I hope it's not snow icing...
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