Just finished my fieldtrip to Lampeter.
had a 3 days of lectures and practicals as preparations for the trip. the practicals were useful, learnt a lot about surveying and traversing. but the lectures were a bit overkill. info overload. but oh well, the 3 days crawled by...
monday, gathered in front of bloomsbury to take a coach to lampeter. the weather was fine till we reached wales -.- had stops for lunch, and toilet break at wales best toilet or sth. haha. reached lampeter about 4.30pm, got our rooms, unpacked and then it was dinner time. after dinner, work started.
basically it was just breakfast at 8, morning briefing at 9. then work all the way till dinner then briefing at 7pm then work until we're done for the day. up and about. tiring. with horrible weather for the first week. it was grey, and gloomy, and raining, and windy and miserable. the place was small and boring and miserable. argh.
first week we had to do 4 tasks. task 1 took up a bulk of our time. it was pretty interesting, did surveying and traversing and detailing. it was quite fun lor actly, just tht the weather and the place and the timing of the whole field trip and a certain group member...
omg the group member was horrible. he is soooo annoying. he just has sth against me like irritating to the max. urgh. he claims that i just want to argue with him and tht whatever he say im against it. im not the only one lor. my other groupmates also not for his ideas. but its just me. after tht, whatever i say is wrong and he cannot give me reasons. aiya just damn annoying la. made my horrible week even more horrible.
weekend came and we had task 3 and task 4 which weren't really counted. and also some time off but time off also nothing to do -.- we went to tour the lynn brianne dam. pretty nice place. and tht day was super hot. so many angmors sun burnt. haha. veh funny to see.
ohh and just to show how small the town is, 10 mins either way, you are into the next town. yup that's how small the place is. miserable -.-
2nd week is a lot better. it was scenario 5. we were all so worried that we'll be damn busy and overworked. plus due to the stress and bad weather, a lot of people were sick. but then, it turned out tht scenario 5 was actly enjoyable. quite chill and slack actly. nth much to do. but with nth to do, we really hv nth to do beacuse the place is...
we worked out in the fields with cows and sheep and cow poo and sheep poo and stinging nettles. luckily we had very good weather. it was quite fun working outdoors, and setting out our road and all that. i felt that i actly learnt in this scenario and there were lots of hands on. i like :)
and my group went trekking and trespass like a thousand farms and walked past cows and sheep. haha. fun fun :)
the trip is finally over :) time to prepare for dubai and then back home to singapore! :D