MAS & Cleaning

After a busy week last week I am home again and ready to relax..

After church on Sunday night - when part of the BJU mission team came to visit our church I drove down to Melbourne for the week.

Monday morning saw me getting nervous for my panel interview for the job with MAS. mmm can't say how it went as I was extremely nervous and thought it went horribly but you never know.

Tuesday and Wednesday I was able to spend some time with my Mum and Cherie and we "winter" cleaned her house... It looks HEAPS better than it did and we got rid of just a few boxes of "junk" :-).

Thursday I had my written exam (3 hours long), and it was different than exams from BJU I will say.. I have to get 50% on each of the 6 sections of the exam in order to pass, and even though it was a challenge exam for what I supposedly do know already, there were copies of cardiac strips on the exam. Yipes....... I took some guesses but have no idea if they were right or not. I had no idea that there were going to be questions like that on there as I thought that i was being tested on what i knew already and on my prior qualifications..
Thursday also saw my nephews come home after spending 4 days with their Dad. Cherie enjoyed the break away from being a full time single parent and i think it gave her a little breathing space to be able to get some things done that she would normally not be able to do.

On Friday I had the dreaded Medical and Physical exam. Well i wasn't so worried about the Medical as i am pretty healthy in all, but last time i failed the physical..... Yipes.... I have been going to the gym regularly and talking to the gym instructor about how to best pass this physical and guess what????? Yes, it worked... I had to get a minimum of 13 points to pass the physical and i got just that 13... :-) I would have loved to get higher but i am happy that i passed.
Right after the physical i had my practical scenario, and that went OK. Because the skills of all the people interviewing are all varied as they are from all over the world they base the scenario on the skills level of the person and so they are all individual scenarios.. Because of the differences between my skills here and what i could do over in the US i ended up doing a BLS scenario.. A choking person who went into Cardiac Arrest and i was alone with no partner. (and yes that does happen here, with back up 20 minutes away).

MAS will let us know the week of August 14th on the results of this past week of testing, and if they offer the job then it starts in November sometime. So if i do get the job it is perfect timing for my trip to the states, as i leave the 21st August and get back in October and would have to give 2 weeks notice at RAV.

So after travelling all over Melbourne in the past week and putting many more kms on my poor little car, Banjo and I decided it was time to come home and get some stuff done at home before having Jury Duty later in the week.

I have now also disconnected my old email address so please send to the new one.
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