Time to take a 'break' from homework to update you on the last few days. After a rather messy night of Carlsberg, Malibu and X-Factor on Saturday night with Andrew (alcohol the only thing to do in Upper Heyford), Sunday was a rather more relaxed affair. We ventured out for a wander around the base, and boy our first impressions of this place weren't wrong. It is almost all completely abandoned, we are one of the few buildings with any signs of life. You can still see into some of the old places like the cinema, which still has the show times up on the window from when everyone left. Scary stuff.
The afternoon was much nicer, we ventured out on the 'nearby' Park & Ride into Oxford, and wow what an amazing city! It obviously has all the modern shops any city would have, but the architecture everywhere you look is just stunning, and when we ventured out along the river the views back over the city were just amazing. We wandered down to the University boathouses and managed to catch a boat race going past, which was good fun.
Today marked the official start of ground school, and after a long introduction from our Chief Ground Instructor we got a bit of exercise collecting our course books - 14 in total, and some of them are pretty giant. Pictures to follow, they have to be seen to be believed! After lunch, we had our first 2 classes comprising of 'Theory of Flight' and 'Human Factors', though not much exciting to report from either so far!
Anyway, am putting off my first bit of homework in 5 years (much like I did back then!), so I'm gonna crack on with that now! Start as I mean to go on...
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