Friday, January 21, 2005

You fed me a line, I'll probably regret it...

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Well, the Engineering Camp was a blast. I had a really good time there. Dad woke me up on the Monday at 8AM, and we had to be there by 9AM at the latest. I hadn't packed the night before, and I freaked out when I realised what the time was. We left the house at about 8:35, and as we were driving we tuned into the radio, where they have traffic reports. Mounts Bay Road [the way we needed to go] was blocked. Traffic from end to end. We stuck with the freeway almost until the end, and then turned off and went around through the 'back-door' around the backof Kings Park, and came down through the rear-entrance to Currie Hall [the Uni's official boarding place]. At almost exactly 9AM, lol. The first while we spent at a Welcome and Introduction type thing, which was pretty cool. We watched a Powerpont Presentation, which kind of covered you know, Rules and what we'd be doing. We were also handed some timetables and stuff like that [which I am consulting now, so that I write everything in order]. We then had morning tea [muffins...mmmm] and then got stuck into the Icebreakers. There were 100 students there, and obviously such a sized group is too big to effectively handle, so when we got our ID tags, they had a coloured strap. I got lucky, and didn't get grimy green, boring blue, gawdy gold or rabid red. Instead, I got Black. Go Black Team. Anyway, we all sat and introduced ourselves etc. and then had the usual kinds of embarasing activities designed to get people talking. Animal sound pairing, human knot etc. You get the picture. It was fun though. We had two team leaders, Aaron who studies... *forgotten* and Jason, who wasn't actually a student but running the UWA Motorsport team. They were both awesome guys, great to talk to, and pretty funny. After we finished the icebreakers, they took Black Team over the road to the Uni, where we went on a tour around the grounds and had a look at where everything was [with special attention to the Engineering Departments of course, lol]. Then we had lunch at 12:30 [hot-dogs and chips...mmmmm] before heading off to our first group activity. M1 was on our timetable, and it is "Engine Dismantling and Assembly". Anyone who knows me well would realise exactly how excited I was about that. .... Not very. Anyway, we had to dismantle a 4 stroke engine, and then put it back together and get it to run. I was with a guy called Lachlan, and another dde [who's name I later found out was Jeff]. At that stage I didn't really like him too much though...he just didn't feel like my kind of person. Anyway, we did the engine thing with a minimal amount of trouble. We had afternoon tea [mmmmm... biscuits and soft-drink], before heading over to the Motorsport shed to check the cars out. Each year UWA students produce a racing car, which they enter in various competitions. UWA is a world-leader in Motorsport, and they've even taken a car to the Detroit Motor Show and placed 13th out of 140 odd cars. Anyway, the cars were these low little jobs [like a beefed up go-kart...but imagine a 200kg, 140km/hr in 6 seconds Go-Kart] and they looked mean. You sat in them, and you were about an inch and a half off of the ground. After that we had free time for about 45 minutes. I think I went to the games room and played a bit of table-tennis, and watched Foxtel. Then we had dinner [something else yummy], and then we had some old UWA graduates come in to talk to us about wha they were doing. One was a Process Engineer [otherwise known as Chemical Engineers], one was a Petroleum Engineer [developing machinery and tunnels etc. for oil rigs] and the other was an Electronics Engineer. So, we talked to them for a while. And then I went to bed. ------ And thats where I'll leave it for now. I need material for the next few days ;)

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