Post party week

An interesting weekend it turned out to be. At the party me and another guy got to load people in AS355's; We loaded people up for 5 minute helicopter rides for almost all day (12-15.30). After that another couple of guys from our school who volunteered for the company got the remaining one hour to load up people. There wasn't a lot of daylight left.

At the actual reception I met a pilot for the company, who is - believe it or not - Belgian and so is his wife. We had a good chat, went to a bar and nightclub afterwards. I got home by 0615. Fortunately it was Sunday by then, not Monday. Anyways, long story short, we decided to stay in touch and I might meet them again for New Years.
It's nice to have an 'in' like that, plus it's a little piece of home you meet. You cannot believe how weird it is to talk dutch ('Antwarps') after not having uttered one word to a person (face to face) in almost 3 months.

This week went by comfortably. I feel I could add another notch or 2 intensity-wise (when talking about studies), but something tells me that pacing myself would be a better approach. I'm flirting with the idea of actually NOT studying AT ALL on Sundays. We'll see how that works itself out.

I'm up to 33 hours (that includes about 5 hours solo time) now and next week I'll be doing my first (dual) cross country trip, followed by a confined approach into a creek surrounded by trees. It will allow me to get a taste of what I will be doing operationally.

For those of you who have been awaiting new pictures, I have to apologize for the delay, I'll get them up as soon as I can.