Trainee's Blog
It’s the big range of things we study that makes training to be a Merchant Navy Officer probably a lot more interesting than some student courses. Our group put forward a project to build a warship and everybody got really enthusiastic.
Our proposal got great marks and that seriously cranked up the enthusiasm levels. We’ve started the construction now and you can be sure that progress will feature here regularly. This phase our subjects include Plant Maintenance,...
One of the great things about the year changing is although it’s still winter you feel that the spring and summer are suddenly a whole lot closer. What I mean is you start...
I’m not sure exactly how many other people there are on my course at college but I’d guess somewhere between 60 and 80 people. There are about 23 in my class and we all get on pretty well. We’ve lots of different backgrounds and accents as many of us have travelled to Glasgow to do this course from elsewhere so for many...
I like living in Glasgow.
I’m a long way from home, although not as far as some others at the college, but far enough. I do miss home when family or friends are doing something and I can’t get back for it but on the whole I’m enjoying my time...
I’m now firmly back into the swing of college life. I’m in phase 3 of the five phases the course has and so I’ll be in college until next summer now when all going well I’ll go to sea again. Unlike phase 1 we’ve no exam at the end of this phase but rather we have a project to complete. Along with 2 others we have to build a warship that can fire water balloons through a target! Now this sounds like a lot of fun I know but it is much harder than it sounds and we...
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