Wednesday 23 July...Friday March 21...long time...big changes...
In that time I've been studying, travelling and getting on with my life...recently been to Fiji, where my glasses are at the bottom of the Pacific somewhere...place was nice, and the group was there on an "educational experience"...let me tell you, it was an experience alright...we travelled to parts where there is only one or two persons of European origin, normally the priest or nun which is looking after the place...and which is not normally visited by tourists...the roads are no more then cuttings in the jungle and the transport is in the back of trucks...no radio, no TV...no hot water...living by the sea and eating coconuts...that was cool...
I've been looking at the options open to me after I finish school...a course in Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) looks pretty tempting at the moment...might be a better career choice then Aerospace Engineering...more "fun" too...
I'm at the local TAFE library now...the school recently revamped it's internet AGAIN and with all new systems still has to iron the bugs out, hence why I'm here...might make this a weekly thing, cos the interent is a lot faster here and there's not so many distractions....
Well, the course is starting soon, and I was just skimming through the old posts...the group of cadets that I joined up with might hopefully get reclassified next week...after 6 months of waiting for it...bloody finally...
I better get going...have a good one...
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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