November 14, 2008 – 23:23
Then I’m back home again after two weeks of studies, fun and meeting a lot of new cool people. Today I’m not feeling too good and I’m a bit “blinded”
We did and exercise with teargas to check that our gas masks were leak proof and formed a proper seal, which it did, but in the process I had to remove my glasses, and I managed to drop them on the ground and someone stepped on them. So right now I only have my sunnies it I need to do a bit of typing or reading. It looks a bit strange going around with sun glasses in the dark 
But I’ll just have to go get a new pair tomorrow.
Last night we had a party to celebrate the last night, and as usual it got a bit moist
November 12, 2008 – 23:23
We’ve done it, we planned and executed the burning of a 800 square meter barn. Woppee.
The whole thing was a part of the course I’ve been attending the last couple of weeks, yesterday we went out to the place in the morning to have a look at the place and to see what other buildings we needed to protect from the fire. 
As you can see the barn was quite close to the main building, about 40 meters, and even closet to a newer tool shed. But we managed to protect those. We set up four fire pumps at the lake which is about 250 meters to the east of these buildings, three that was supplying water to hoses and three water walls, and one in backup just in case. then we rolled out something like 1.2 km of 4″ hoses and a then some 2.5″ hoses.
Then after a few problems with the pumps and a few broken hoses that needed replacing we were ready to light up place. The fire was lit in an old sofa in the north end of the barn at 10:25 and after about 8 minutes the whole place was ablaze. At 11:13 the last south wall finally collapsed inwards as planned and at 11:35 there was no more danger that the fire would escalate outside the foundation of the building so the fire pumps were shut down. It’s kind of scare to se how fast the fire grown and how destructive it is, but it’s also nice to have experienced this so close.
I’ll se if I cannot create a timeline of the pictures I took as the fire progressed some day when I get back home.
Or at least I’ll try to be one tomorrow.
Today we got the task of presenting an subject to the rest of the people in my course. So my teaching for tomorrow will be on the subject “Circulation failure and bleeding” Where I’m supposed to look at the symptoms, causes and first aid responses when dealing with circulation failure, internal bleeding and plain ordinary bleeding in different forms.
Keeping my fingers crossed since my background material is kind of limited ( 4 pages in my first aid textbook ) and I’m supposed to give a 30 minute lecture.
I’ve got some practical tasks for my students so hopefully that will take a while
well then the first day of my two days courses has ended, and so far it looks like it’s going to be a good two weeks. The people here are nice and the whole course plan seems to be interesting. I’m hoping to be able to do some updating here from time to time.
Today we’ve had some general Civil Defence information, done a short presentation of ourselves for our class, had some information on the rules regarding uniforms and starter on some team leader exercises, and tomorrow wwe’ll continue with more of the same. Should be good.
The best part of this course will probably be next Wednesday when we are going to lead the people doing their basic training when they are burning down an 800 square meter barn. Should be fun.
Or is it happy, what is it exactly …
At Least it’s another reason to get dressed up and have a party.
Time flies and sometimes I’m not able to do all the stuff I would like to do. Like making updates here.
But tonight I sat down and finally managed to get my Curriculum Vitae updated, about time
I got an e-mail from Valeri whom I meet in Australia earlier this year, and she is of on new adventures, I cannot say anything other than that I envy her this trip You should check out her blog and se how she fares in the fare east. Have a look at her blog here. http://marinoandvalou.uniterre.com
I’m going of for a few days to in a weeks time, not that far and not to such a nice and warm place either. I’m of to Starum where I’m going to get two weeks training to do eventual works that my position in the Civilian Defence forces calls for. Since I’m only second in command in the little group that we are I’m not to sure how often I’ll get to use the skills, but things happen, and some of the stuff I’ll probably be able to use in other situations.
Further more, since my last update. Melissa has gotten married! Congratulations Melissa.
As for the hunt for a new trombone, things have slowed down a bit, I’ve tried a few and in a few weeks I’ll get some professional help in trying to decide which one will be the best one for me, looking forward to that quite a lot.
It’s time for me to get to bed I think, isn’t much happening tonight, and tomorrow we are going to have an October Party, probably going to be quite a moist affair . I hope
September 26, 2008 – 12:12
Last week while traveling back from Austria, my trombone got a bit mishandled by the airlines. So now it’s been sent off for repairs.
This seems to be the start of something larger.
Yesterday I got to borrow a friends trombone in order to have something to play on while mine is being fixed, and now I’m sold. I need to get my self a better trombone that the one I got. Both the one I’ve borrowed and one I tested yesterday are way easier to play than my old one. I had such a good time playing yesterday.
And so the hunt is on to figure out which one I would like to play, and to figure out what I can afford
September 24, 2008 – 22:22
I fianlyy got around to doing something new with my webpage, As it was it was a bit to static and I hope now I’ll be a bit better at updating it.
There are still some pages to be added but I’ll do that inbetween. I need to get my CV back online and some picture galleries and stuff like that.
See you soon.
Well I’m back in Sydney again after one of the best experiences in my life. I’ve been up in Alice Springs and traveled for five days in the bush on one of the WayOutback dessert safaris. Read More »
Must be the first expression of Alice Springs. Getting of the plain and the dry hot air threatens to turn you into a raisin in seconds.
But it gets better. The hostel I’m in is quite nice, clean air conditioned rooms and a pool and a nice bar. I’ve just been over there now and had dinner. Camel, it tasts like .. chicken
nah.. it was good, but quit plain, you could probably pass it off as any other meat if you wanted to, the taste of it at least, the texture was a bit special.
So now I’m just gonna hang around here and perhaps grab another beer. Haven’t found anyone that’s going on my tour yet, but it seems a lot of people are here just to go on one of the many tours going out from here tomorrow.
Looking forward to it
