Rain, Oil leaks and finals

I know. It's been a while since my last post.
This week I started preparing my final exams (of the school here, internally, not the official ones yet). I plan to do 1-2 of the 5 finals before Christmas. This will allow me to do 2 more before or after New Year and then take the official final just after New Year's. I currently have about 45 flight hours. We're only allowed to take the test with 50 hours total, so that won't be a problem.
Even though one could say I am only about halfway, I feel it's important to have passed that 'theoretical hurdle' which are the final (written) exams and have more time open to focus on the actual flying and planning the road trip and the research associated with it.
Other than that I had kind of an interesting experience while flying, a couple of days back. Apparently I was leaking oil and it was only seen, when I came back in (after an hours worth of flying solo). It wasn't a big deal, the leak was very small, but it still makes you think of how important it is to keep monitoring the health of your machine. A fellow student who inspected the machine after my flight promptly reported it and said he saw some oil flying around when I came to the pad.
Again, nothing major, but it keep you 'on your toes'.
Weather wise, things are not what they should be as we are having lots of rain right now. I'm hoping things will clear up soon, so we can start doing some more cross country work.

I will be uploading the photos I made last week early next week. After that, updates will be more prompt. I'm going to get a small adapter plug, so I can upload my pictures from my laptop, instead of using the cell phone.