Day 13 in Kazakhstan. Starting to feel very tired on this Saturday morning, before I go in to teach again all friggin’ day. I have posted a lot of ‘moaning’ on my daily posts, but that is the reality of the situation because I literally haven’t stopped since I left home on Thursday 4 July. I have reached the point of mental and physical exhaustion. I am so grateful that tomorrow is my day off. Hopefully I will be able to get out of the hotel and do battle with the traffic; on foot of course. However it is still the same old story; as I go through the material I am noticing too many errors; so much so that I do not have a lot of faith in the training manuals at all. Truly frustrating beyond words. When I developed the maintenance part of the CRJ 200 course at Air Canada Jazz, I had never worked on the aircraft, but had taken the course that I am teaching now. I knew that I didn’t know the aircraft very well because I had never worked on it at that time; just had the course and that was all. One thing is for certain, whoever put this course together couldn’t possibly have taken the course yet; and may not even know what a CRJ 200 regional jet is! Okay; enough already. I will not bring this up again; it’s done. On a lighter note. Tonight, during my Billy-no-Mates party I am going to enjoy a few beers and watch a movie and just chill; ahhhh….. I shall go and have my last interaction with the printing shop so I can get the last exam printed for Monday afternoon and on my way back I shall pick up half a dozen beers. Then I shall watch one my DVDs; probably Identity Thief because it looks like a funny movie and it will be in English! Yeah baby! Sunday will be a quick foot-slogging sightseeing tour of the local area and maybe even a chance to use the hotel pool and spa. There hasn’t been a chance to do anything but be immersed in my work thus far. But this all changes after today. It will be nice to start training out on the aircraft next week. The class of 20 will be broken up into smaller groups of 5, and that will make it easier to teach. I am actually looking forward to this segment. Another plus is this time next week I won’t be able to “this time next week” because I will be on my KLM flight to Amsterdam. So I am hoping (and believing) that the worst is behind me and I can start to breathe a little easier as I take each night of training and chalk it off of my chuff-chart. I know some of my posts have been on the ‘down’ side. But I can assure anyone that reads this that this is just the reality of the situation. This really has been a major eye-opener for me. Professionally speaking, I have never had to dig so deep within myself to overcome the amount of obstacles I have faced. Personally speaking it has been a real test of character. So, my venting has been on these daily posts and that helps me to get it out of my system. To everyone that has been reading my “journey in to Kazakhstan” I would just like to say a big thank you to all of you for your kind words of support. It has really helped me to keep on going through the darks days of these past 2 weeks. When it feels like everything is getting on top of me, I just stop what I am doing, meditate for about 15 minutes and then read the comments. It keeps me going when I know that, outside this incredibly surreal environment that I am currently in, there is a normal life (of sorts) waiting for me when my assignment is completed. Thank you everyone for your words of support. It is now turning 6:30 on Saturday morning. I still have some work to do before I go for my meal of the day and charge back in to the fro. I hope you all have a great weekend. As will I. Okay Day 13; I am ready. Let’s get it done!
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:43:26 +0000
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