I'm rather bored tonight in camp, and my unit buddy that I've been closest to in camp for the past 9 weeks has gone for his course as a CQ. Usually we'll have quite nice talks at night or at least keep each other company, but tonight i'm alone:( except for my new understudy. What a strange situation this is. I'm REC and this new guy also OOTed so he's REC too, but I've been here longer and he's taking over my job scope, so I'm his upper study. Strange that a REC is managing another REC. Anyway, I find it quite hard to click with this new guy. He's kinda strange. And we haven't exactly got any common topics. So our morning walks to cookhouse are usually silent. Then I ask if he's going to eat or just take a drink. And we sit down at the table, silently eating. Then we walk back to the bunk, nothing to talk about once again. He also isn't the most intelligent around. 1st Day, I did the work to show him how its done. Full explanations and all, tried to make sure he understood. 2nd day, I asked him to do the work, while I sat beside and completely guided him. 3rd day, I asked him to do the work while I sat beside him just to make sure he did it right. But he still seemed very unsure when doing it. Everyday its the same buttons to click! I can't stand slow learners:(
Oh well, on another note, I signed up for national championships (Time trials) which will be held this Saturday morning. Did intervals this evening when I went home for my nights off. Not expecting to come out anywhere close to the top because firstly my equipment is road race equipment and not time trial aero stuff, and also because I haven't trained enough. Last year's road race I did really poorly, and I said i would train for this years'. I think i would have been quite prepared if not for the interruption when I dislocated my kneecap. And also from all the studying for A levels. And the fact that the competition was announced so last minute for this year! But anyway I've definitely improved from June last year till now. Oh and I'm competing in the men's open this year, not the juniors, so that makes things even harder. I shall make sure I use the next year to train even harder, that I'm actually "competition-grade" by next year's nationals.