Well its done now, I have made a mock up of a plan for the next 13 months of my life. Let me fill you in.
Sometime in January I decided I wanted to go to school for business. I wanted to go to the Northern Lights College in the Northern BC area. I have been going to that area now for 2 year and have enjoyed it to the point where I would consider living there. So I applied and everything seemed to be going smoothly and I thought it was going to be fairly simple to get in and it has been but there was one obstacle I had to get around first. That was that test I mention a couple times, the CAAT one. I had to do the math portion to prove smrt smart enough. I did it, sent it back, thought I failed horribly, and have been waiting to hear what I scored ever since. That was 4 weeks ago.
Finally one morning about a week ago I got a message on my phone at about 5am here in Hawaii. I was sleeping so I didn’t hear it ringing. It was the school phoning asking me to call them back, so it would have been 9 or 10am for them. Throughout the last week I had tried several time to get a hold of the recruiting office but no such luck. The recruiting officer was either on the phone with someone else or away sick.
Today finally I got through after she left another message for me. It was a funny conversation. There was no anticipation or suspense for the answer it was simply a quick and cheerful “You’ve been accepted and your letter should be in the mail”. As the conversation went on I asked what I scored on the CAAT as I truly thought I would have failed the test or at least got a low grading mark. After franticly looking for the results on her computer she told me that I had scored post-high school, which means I scored at a college level. She said that scoring at a college level is very good and that most applicants only score at a high school level. I guess I need to have a little more faith in my self and my work as yet again I have surprised my self.
My next steps will be sending in the deposit to save my place in the class and to work my tale off saving money, so I don’t have to stress while at school.
As I begin this new adventure I can only imagine all the posts that will come out of it.
Stay Tuned.
2 Hours, 2 Years
It just so happens I have the next two years of my life riding on the next 2 hours. Hmm. Let me fill you in.
I applied for a Business Course out of a College in Northern BC and everything look like it was going smoothly and it would be just a quick thing to do to get accepted as I don’t think this particular program is too popular there. My hiccup came when I sent in my transcript, I thought everything was going to be fine. I needed English 30 and Math 20 (I have a Math 30) the problem came when they told me I didn’t have the right stream of Math 20. To explain I have what the NWT calls Applied Math 20, and 30 which is what I though was equal to BC’s Principles of Math. Principles of Math 11(20) is not the same as Applied it is the same as Math Pure which is the stream above what I have. So if we convert everything to NWT courses, I needed a Math Pure 20 to get in. I don’t have that…..
But I wasn’t out of the race yet. In about 30 minutes I will be writing a CAAT Canadian Adult Achievement Test to see if I am smart enough for the course. I sure hope so because if not I don’t get in! I have seen example test and it don’t seem hard at all. The things that really worry me are the fact I can’t use a calculator even for just simple math, that should be such a big deal except I’m apparently not very confident in myself. The other thing which I think contributes to my lack of confidence is that I have been out of school for over a year now. As I looked throw some practice exams I thought to myself I probably could have done this test with my eyes closed last year and done pretty well but now that I have been out of it for a while, I haven’t done math very often. I brushed up on must stuff and now I just need to do it!
Wish me luck!
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The Name, The Meaning
So I call myself The Bushman and this site is also called it. I’m now conflicted, as I do not spend much time out in the “Bush” but yet online. Why did I pick the name? Back in October I had taken the month off work and gone down to live with some friends in Northern BC. There house is out in the country, half hour from any town. We would go hunting, getting firewood, drive our trucks, haul water. You know stuff that needed to be done to sustain living in the middle no where. So when I decided that I wanted to switch to a blog/domain that showed more of who I am The Bushman fit, somewhat. but now I’m presented with this dilemma! I don’t do near as much outdoorsy stuff as I use to, whether that is because of work or the cold weather it doesn’t matter. The name doesn’t really fit. In the summer I probably will go back to my old ways of camping and living out of my camper but that doesn’t mean I’m going to blog about it. When I choose the name Bushman I had the brilliant idea of writing a weekly post on Bushcraft, well you call all see how well that turned out. Instead I write blogging and the latest tech app or gadget.
Currently I love blogging and Internet tech things, such as WordPress, gadgets/apps, and social media so all my topical posts will have something to do with those kind of things. What I need do or figure out is how (because I’m not changing my Domain again. Hassle is way to much for me right now) to associate The Bushman with tech, blogging, Internet, social media, etc. so that I can build on this site. I have to find the write angle, and work it.
Back to me for a second I thought I would mention my thoughts on how I feel torn in two worlds. I hate to stereotype because I don’t know everything and I really shouldn’t and can’t judge, but this is my opinion. I do like the “Blue Collar” way of life, a laboring job, big truck, mudding and greasy from working on it. Listening to my Country Music wearing plaid proudly living out in the country but then there is the other side of me. The side that is is formally dressed, black leather shoes, Navy jacket, shirt tucked in and hair combed. Having the love of computers and tech news, working online hours at end blogging and researching the next post with calmer acoustic music on in the background. In all a formal business and tech savvy person.
I know people from both ends of this spectrum and I know there opinions about the other end. Its almost a disgust as they ask “why would you want to be like that”. I’m afraid to see what would happen when these people collided. Knowing and seeing all this makes me feel socially unaccepted, it drives me nuts because I can’t figure it out. When I bring up something about the opposite end of the spectrum I’m looked at as if I’m stupid!
“Why would you wanna be like one of em nerds, bet they don’t know how ta fix a car to saver er life. Let go to Timmies”
“Ah, they’re such rednecks, I mean look at that broken down gas guzzler. Horrible. Lets go to Starbucks”
Oh so get this I applied to go to school in a town built on the trades to do a Business Program, ironic….
I’m The Bushman.
