07-01-2007
(Sunday 1405) Well, my life has turned
upside down since I last wrote. We started at school last Tuesday and all
seemed normal. However on Wednesday night, my wife’s water broke so we went to
the hospital and Thursday morning at 0940, our little boy was born. So now
we're two happy (and busy!) parents. I am really tired since I haven't got much
sleep since Tuesday...on the other hand I'm happy in a way that I've never been
before. So now I have just about 3 weeks of maternity leave, so that's great.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know why I hadn't written for such a long time.
Best regards
Papa
19-01-2007
(Friday 1120)
Still here with Maternity leave. Some of the guys at school thought it was like
being on holiday, but it's not! It's damn hard work, day and night...but it
feels great at the same time.
The coming week is my last one off and then we have a course in Leadership
which will take place at a course centre outside our school. It's a course
where we don't go home for the whole week as we start off at 0730 every morning
and finish off at about 2230, so we'll be having some long days indeed...but
I'm used to it by now.
Otherwise not much new. I'll try to upload some more
pictures from Airshows that I attended this summer if
I get some time. That's it for now.
/GEA
31-01-2007
(Wednesday 1705) It's been quite a while
since I last wrote in this diary. At the moment I'm on the leadreship
course at an Army base called Høvelte, where the
Kings' gurads also have their base. We've been having
alot of group-work and some really long days. Fortunatelly we have a 2 hour break right now where we have
time for a work out and then dinner...and then it's on to group-work again
until 2200.
I sold my camera last week as I'm planning to buy a proper one (about time!!)
to get some proper sharp pictures.
Otherwise not much has happened at school at the time that I was away. I don't
know if I've mentioned it, but I'll be going to Finland this summer on a
cultural stay where I'll get to see their Air Force Officer Academy over there
and hopefully see some of their aircraft too.
We have the first exams coming up soon. The first one is Military Law and the
second one is the theory exam in Physical training. Anyway, now it's time to
take a break and recharge before I have to get back to business in about 2
hours. Take care.
/GEA
02-02-2007
(Friday 0955) We're almost done with the
course. We've learned quite alot of stuff which we
can we use out in the "real world" and at times the course was fun
too. The best thing about it was probably the food. And in my case, I really
enjoyed sleeping at night without being waken by a
screaming baby. However, I really look forward to getting home and holding my
little son in my hands again as I haven't seen him for 3 days and I really miss
him.
That's it for now.
/GEA
05-02-2007
(Monday 1545) Here I am back at school
and I had actually (almost) missed it. Today we were visited by the new team of
student pilots from Flying school (who start their
course tomorrow). We told them about what to expect and how to tackle life at
the flying school. I was in charge of briefing them about my OJT (Operational
Job Training) and about life at FLOS (the Air Force Academy) which I am part of
right now.
The new guys seem sharp and I hope that they all make it through flying school.
The class that just finished flying school was here too. Only 3 out of the 10
made it, so that's quite normal compared to the statistics from other classes.
Tomorrow we have swimming again. It's been a while since I last swam, so I look
forward to it.
That's it for now. In 1½ years it's on to
/GEA
07-02-2007
(Wednesday 1220) We had a good swimming
session yesterday. After school we were briefed by an official (Lt. General,
USAF) from NATO who gave us a resumé of the summit
which was held in
Today we started on a new subject at school. It's called Military Science and I
think I'm going to enjoy it. It's a mixture of Mathematics, logistics,
projectiles and so on. Finally we get a subject where we don't sit and discuss
but we sit and do some calculations instead. I'm going to enjoy it.
Now it's time for English where we have to work with translations. Take care.
/GEA
12-02-2007
(Monday 1555) We have winter-holidays
this week which is great as we have our first exam next week in military-law,
so this way we have time to properly prepare. Otherwise not much has happened
at school since last time I wrote. Two of the guys were on one of those school
visits last week, where they went to the highlands of Scotland on some Adventerous training. I look forward to seeing them again
next week to hear about all their experiences. The weather hans't
exactly been ideal, but I guess that's part of the whole point.
I tried my new camera at the airport this weekend and all worked fine. All I
need now is a good lens with alot of zoom and I'll be
ready for the upcoming airshow season. I'm still in
the process of uploading the many pictures from this summer, so it may be a
while before I upload the ones from this weekend. They're all of commercial
aircraft, including a B747-
/GEA
20-02-2007
(Tuesday 1215) We started off with
swimming yesterday and it was a hard start after the holidays. We also had an
introduction to a new subject where we learn how to behave as officers. The do's and don'ts.
The Military Law exam is approaching. It's no big deal, but it's our first exam
at the academy. Now it's time for some personal development with our local
priest.
Otherwise we just had a visit by an EH101 Merlin from RDAF which landed on the
football pitch here at the school. It's always great to get reminded what we're
here for and what awaits us at the end of the line. Too bad F16's cannot land
here.
Catch you later.
GEA
22-02-2007
(Thursday 2220) First exam over and it's early weekend due to meteorological conditions. It has
been snowing like crazy for the past 24 hours. It's a really bad snow-storm, so
bad that it has created chaos on the streets. Most of the public transport is
working irregularly and some of it isn't working at all. Police
advice not to leave your home in order not to get stuck somewhere in the snow.
Anyway, the exam went well I think, so now we are done with Military Law which
is great. I actually rather enjoyed the subject and found it interesting.
That's it for now from snowy Denmark.
/GEA
26-02-2007
(Monday 1940) It was great to have that
long weekend. This week we'll be having our second exam, also a written one but
this time it's in human biology in relation to training. It's mostly about the
processes that take part in the human body when you do physical activities and
the anatomy of the body. It's probably going to be the hardest exam for me
since I'm no too good at that stuff. In
Anyway this morning I was in charge of teaching in the first lesson, where I
had to teach about the do's and don'ts during birth, baptism, engagement and
wedding according to Danish traditions and culture. As an officer, it is of
utmost importance that you know how to behave in any occasion, no matter if it's
an every-day happening or a special event.
That's it for now.
/GEA
28-02-2007
(Wednesday 2055) It's bed time soon as
I'm wasted after today. We had the winter sports day and as it suggests, all actvities were indoors but that didn't make it any easier.
It was really hard where we really pushed ourselves with very short brakes. And
when there's a competition involved, people do an extra effort and in becomes
more fun. My team did ok. We started off very well actually but got worse as
the day went on. Oh well, it was good fun and we got alot
of physical exercise out of it.
Tomorrow's the last chance to prepare for Friday's exam. I'll do my best and
hope it goes well. Anyway, as always I have made a plan for aircraft spotting
for the coming season and this is what it looks like:
March and April: Civilian spotting at Copenhagen airport
May: TLP exercise at Karup and exercise at Aalborg. Also civilian spotting at
June: RDAF airshow, Aalborg
July: RIAT, Fairford, England.
August: Roskilde airshow. Also I'll be on a school
visit in Finland so I hope to make some military and civilian spotting there.
September: Probably Malta International Airshow.
That's it for tonight.
Best regards
GEA
02-03-2007
(Friday 2200) Weekend again. We finished
this week with our second exam at the officer academy so far. Time seems to be
accelerating away now. The exam went well, and I think that it was the case for
most of us. It was probably the one subject that I was worst in, so I'm happy
that it went ok and I look forward to find out what I scored.
Otherwise, the weather is getting warmer, and after this weekend we probably
won't have any more freezing temperatures for this winter.
I've been having quite a few hacker attacks on the website these last few weeks
but fotunately none of them have managed to actually
hack the site, which means that my defensive techniques have been effective. I
won't discuss any of them as that might result in the hackers changing tactics.
That's it for now. Have a nice weekend.
Best regards
GEA
06-03-2007
(Tuesday 2215) Today was no normal day.
We had an event called "Kadet for en dag"
meaning "Officer cadet for a day," where young civilians (high-school
students) who are interested in what it's like to become an Officer, came
visiting us and got a taste of what it's like. The arrangement went really
well. My friend Rune, who was the man in charge of the whole thing
had planned well to every detail so all went smooth indeed! My task during the
day was taking pictures, while my partner KER had the task of making an article
about the whole thing, so we made sure to get it covered from every angle.
Anyway, I made a forum online (in Danish), where I will upload the pictures
from the event and those present and others interested in a carreer
in the Air Force, can ask their qeustions online.
Hopefully many will get some questions answered through the forum. The address
is jetfighters.dk/forum if you want to take a look.
I bought a lens for my new Canon 400D camera otherwise, a Sigma 170-500mm which
will serve as a temporary lens until I've saved up for the Canon 100-400mm IS
USM. The camera itself has a factor of 1.6, which means that with a 500mm lens,
I'll actually be using 800mm! The weather seems like it's going to be good
during the weekend, so I plan to go spotting at Copenhagen airport to try the
equipment out.
Good night
/GEA
07-03-2007
(Wednesday 2300) I'm off to bed in a
minute, but before I go I might aswell finish the day
with a post in the diary. We got back to normal business today at school with
the usual Military Science, English and swimming lessons among other things.
Then when I got home I got a phone call from a Danish spotter webpage ( Spotters.dk ) asking me if I was interested in going to
/GEA
08-03-2007
(Thursday 2205) Today we had our first
Officer-lunch. We're not Officers yet but it's about time to start practising.
We all thought that we were well-mannered chaps, but found out that there are
more table manners than you can imagine. Anyway it was fun to learn about being
a gentleman at the table and having good food at the same time.
I'm almost done with the preparations for Saturday's trip to the Netherlands. I
still have a few things to take care of. I'll only be there Saturday afternoon
and Sunday morning, so I have to plan well to get the best out of it, as the
days are still rather short and the weather is still rather unstable. But
anyway, it seeme like there will be some sunshine
during the weekend and that the wind will be Westerly, so that makes it easier
to plan, since I know what runways they'll be using.
Good night now.
Best regards
GEA
13-03-2007
(Tuesday 0855) The trip to the
Netherlands got postponed due to illness in the family, so the plan is now for
next weekend. Unfortunately it seems as if the weather will be relatively bad
next weekend but that won't stop me from having a great time.
This Friday we have DAKA at school, which is a sport event where all 3 officer
academies (Navy, Army and Air Force) come together and compete in different
sport disciplines. It's a fact that the army guys always win most of the
events, so it's become a tradition that the Navy and Air Force get together
with one goal in mind...to NOT let the army win. It's going to be fun. After
the event we go on to dinner together and then to a party. The event rotates
between those 3 every year, and this time it's our turn (the Air Force) to do
all the planning and being in charge of all the practical stuff, so some of the
guys at school have been really busy lately.
Catch you later...
/GEA
15-03-2007
(Thursday 2055) Yesterday I had my
yearly medical. I dread medicals to be honest, as I always fear that my
eye-sight has deteriorated or my Cholesterol level has reached the upper layers
of the athmosphere, but thankfully all was as it
should be, so it went smooth.
Today we had the day off so Sara, the little one, and myself went to the
airport. Sara went for a walk while I enjoyed doing some aircraft spotting with
the new lens that I bought for the camera. The weather was far from ideal but I
the pictures turned out ok anyway. I'll take a look at them later and upload
them if it doen't get too late. Tomorrow, as I wrote
before, we have DAKA, where I am going to be the responsible head-judge for the
pistol-shooting competition. Then on Saturday I'm off to the Netherlands for
the weekend for some serious spotting, but it seems like winter is on it's way
back...
/GEA
17-03-2007
(Saturday 0855) We had the Officer
Academy sport competition yesterday and it was actually great fun to compete
against the Army and the Navy. The Navy won overall (for the 4th year in a
row!) and we shared a second place with the Army.
After the event, everyone headed over to our school where we had dinner
together and a great party where we go to know eachother
better and found out that the other guys aren't that wierd
after all. I met some Navy guys who had seen my website and it's always funny
to meet people who talk to you as if they've known you for a long time. We had
a great sharing our experiences and talking about what it's like on our
respective school.
Anyway, in order to make the party more interesting, some of the guys at the
Academy had invited girls from different schools in Copenhagen, like the nurse
school and medicine school among others and it was a great success. Over 80 of
them showed up to our party and most of them seemed to have had a really great
time.
Anyway, I'll be flying to Amsterdam in a few hours time, so I better get the last
preparations in place. Take care!
/GEA
19-03-2007
(Monday 0925) Back home from the
Netherlands. The weather was far from optimal but I had a great trip anyway. I
took quite alot of pictures with my new equipment and
so far they look quite good.
Now it's back to school. This morning we started at 0800 instead of
I look forward to have some time to take a proper look at the pictures and
start uploading them on the net. I also have to write a report about spotting
conditions at Schiphol airport. After all, that's
what I was sent to the Netherlands for. Now it's back to business. Later onj we'll be running 8km and to be honest, I don't look
forward for it.
/GEA
23-03-2007
(Friday 0755) Almost weekend and it's
been a good week with plenty of physical activity. As you probably know we had
an orientation race last Tuesday and we had swimming yesterday and we have 8km
running today. Yesterday's swimming lesson was the last one before the exam,
which takes place next week. We were tested in the 500m swim for the last time
and to my surprise I improved by 40 seconds compared to last time, which means
that I am now down on 11m18s. I'm sure that I can shave those 18 seconds off
and come down below 11 minutes, so I'll really give it all I've got next time.
If I can improve by 1 second every lap, that would mean a 20 second increase as
we swim 20 laps of 25m. I'll let you know how it went when we've had the exam.
Now it's time for the last English lessons for this week and then it's on to
running followed by weekend! I'll try to upload some pictures from the trip to
the Netherlands this weekend if I have time.
Catch you later...
/GEA
28-03-2007
(Wednesday 1305) Just back from lunch
after the swimming exam. My goal, as I last wrote, was to swim 1 second faster
per lap, meaning 20 seconds faster in all. I swam exactly 20 seconds faster
than last time, which means that I had a finish time of 10:58 which I'm very
satisfied with.
So another exam over; the next on the physical training plan is the 8km offroad running, which is something that I really have a
hard time with. I have to work really hard to get better at those steep hills
that are on our offroad track. The 8km exam is in the
end of May, so there's 2 months to improve. Anyway, next on today's programme
is Military science, which is basically Matemathics
at this stage. So I better get mentally prepared for the lessons. Catch you
later.
/GEA
30-03-2007
(Friday 1305) Weekend and holidays
ahead! Today was our last day before the Easter holidays. It was a hard one
though. As you know we began on the 8km rough terrain running training and
today we had the initial test to find out where we are. I ran the course in
just under 46 minutes. Running for such a long time, up and down steep hills is
MUCH harder than you can ever imagine. I get surprized
at how hard it is every time. The exam in this discipline is due in May and you
need to complete the course in under 48 minutes to
pass. I will work towards the 40 minute barrier which is my goal for the exam.
I think I can make it but it's going to take a big effort since running is
probably the thing I hate doing most.
Yesterday some of the guys from class and myself were out eating spare-ribs,
where you could eat as much as you could for the same price. As you can
imagine, we kept challenging eachother to eat more
and all ended up close to exploding at the end. Afterwards we went to a bar to
get a beer. It was good fun but probably not the most ideal strategy on the
night before the running event...
/GEA
12-04-2007
(Thursday 1205) Holidays are over and
it's back to business. We had a rather standard week, though we had more
physical training than usual. I can feel that myself getting in better shape
which is great. We were out running again today, in the forest next to the
school where we ran a 'hunt run' of 4km after warming up with an easy 4km run.
The hunt run is basically where the slow ones start first and the fast ones
start later and if the time handicaps were calculated accordingly, everyone
would arrive at the goal at the same time. I am one of the slow runners
normally so I was one of the first ones off so I agreed with myself that I
wouldn't let anyone overtake me...and they didn't either! I started off
relatively fast, increased the speed during the run and sprinted at the end and
came home quite some time before the others. BLI and myself had an agreement.
His goal was to overtake me and my goal was to obstruct him in doing so...so I
won the bet; too bad we didn't bet anything.
Anyway, we just had lunch and we're ready for the next lesson on the scheme,
which is a double lesson in English. Catch you later...
/GEA
16-04-2007
(Monday 1210) Another week is on. We
start off with running up some hills in a forest close to the school.
Next week we have GME (Grund Militær
Efteruddannelse) which is basically an exercise which
all military personnel take part in once a year in order to maintain their
soldier abilities. It's going to be 3 days at Jægerspris
where we'll be shooting with the M/96 Karabine again
among other things. It's going to be fun, let's just hope that the weather
stays good.
Anyway, I was out spotting at
Othetrwise things look good for our yearly airshow at Aalborg AB. So far there are 5 aerobatic teams
confirmed to participate, which is much more than usual. It's going to be
great!
Now I'm off running.
/GEA
27-04-2007
(Friday 1945) It's been a while since I
last wrote something in here...
GME went ok. We had really great weather and good food and good sleeping
without any babies screaming in the middle of the night, which is something
that I'm used to lately. I really missed that little devil and it was great to
come back home to him and Sara.
Next week is no standard week either. On Tuesday and Wednesday we have a course
in coaching at school. Due to the long working hours we'll be sleeping at
school. Otherwise we'll be having the usual lessons on the other days of the
week except for Friday, which is a Danish public holiday.
The programme for Roskilde airshow has been updated
and both Eurofighter and Gripen
are now confirmed as participants! You can read more about the show here:
airshow.dk
Also the programme for Aalborg airshow has been
updated and the site is here: danishairshow.dk
Unfortunately I probably cannot make it to the airshow
in Aalborg as I'll be on a school visit in Norway that weekend (cannot remember
if I've written this already...) Anyway. the main
event of this school visit is Saturday night, so I'll try to find an early
flight on Sunday in order to make it to the airshow.
That's it for now, I'll write some info about our experiences on GME later on.
Stay tuned!
/GEA
28-04-2007
(Saturday 0105) You're probably
wondering what I'm doing writing in the middle of the night but as you can see
I've updated the main page of the website. I hope that you like it. If you have
any suggestions, comments or ideas, please let me know. Thanks dudes!
/GEA
01-05-2007
(Tuesday 0935) Here we are again. As I
mentioned last time, we have a bit of an unusual week this week. Today (in 25
minutes) we'll kick off on a course in coaching which will go on until tomorrow
at about 1500. This means that we'll be staying over at school for the night.
We're all quite curious about what the course involves.
Anyway, next week a few Officer Cadets (like ourselves) from Finland will be
coming over to visit us so I'll be helping out in showing them around in
Copenhagen. I look forward to meeting them and hopefully there are also some
pilot gonnabe's so that we can talk a bit about
flying and hear what their pilot training is like. In Finland, as you know,
they have the F/A-18 as front line fighter and they also have BAe Hawk as an advanced trainer.
That's it for now. If you haven't noticed, I've been uploading new pictures in
the gallery basically every week for the past month or so. They're mostly of
civilian aircraft as the airshow season hasn't
started yet...
/GEA
07-05-2007
(Monday 1335) Sitting between lessons.
Today we have 4 hours of State Knowledge in all and that's ok as it's really my
favorite subject. At the moment we're learning about
Denmark within the EU. We have to write an assignment in the subject soon so
we're all busy acquiring information for that.
We got some sudden news last week. As you probably know, 3 of us will be going
to
Anyway, this Thursday I'll be going to Skrydstrup AB
for a meeting and I look forward to hear jet noise again and smell some jet
fuel while we're there.
Anyway, class starting again now. Catch you later.
/GEA
12-05-2007
(Saturday 1600) I was at Skrydstrup Ab Thursday, where I
attended the yearly pilot union meeting for the first time. It was nice to hear
about the union's agenda and plans. But apart from that it was great to be back
at the base, hear some jet 'music,' smell some jet fuel and talk with the
pilots and get updated on the latest happenings. At the moment, as you might
know, there's a bunch of USAF F15C's at Aalborg AB which will be taking part in
an exercise called Noble Award. However, in the meantime before the exercise
starts, they're practsing against the RDAF F16's and
German Tornados and it was nice to hear that our guys have been kicking some
serious butts. Anyway, Friday morning before we drove back home, we went to the
end of the runway to see some jets take off and afterwards we went to the F16
simulator and "flew" for about 20 minutes each - it was great!
Sometimes I have to remind myself what it is I'm fighting for and why I am
working so hard...and that's basically all it takes to get me motivated again
and get my flame burning. I really look forward to Canada and hopefully the life
as fighter pilot afterwards. As you know, there's six of us going to Canada
next year but only 5 will be given the fighter slot and the last will be given
a transport slot. Now I better get back to my home work. I have an assignment
in State knowledge among other things which I have to finish today. Stay tuned.
/GEA
15-05-2007
(Tuesday 1055) We kicked the week off
with running. Monday mornings and running are a bad cocktail, but anyway, we
survived. This Thursday is a public holiday so we have a long weekend which
I'll use on a family holiday to
The lesson is starting now, so I better get away from the computer.
/GEA
24-05-2007
(Thursday 2250) Yesterday we spent the
whole day at Chrisitansborg, which is the Danish Parlament building, where we saw the politicians at work
and had a meeting with a couple of members of parlament.
It was a great day and it was really exciting to see the whole political system
in action. After all we've had quite a few lessons in State-knowledge, so it
was nice to see the whole thing in real life. Afterwards we visited the
Ministry of Defence where we were briefed about the military happenings, mostly
connected to the Air Force. In the evening I met up with a couple of friends at
a bar in Copenhagen where we watched the Champions League final and had a few
beers. It was a great ending to the day, as my team won...
As I wrote before, today I flew over to Karup AB to
take some pictures of the aircraft participating at the TLP exercise.
Unfortunately the weather was terrible but I got a few shots anyway, which I'll
try to upload later on tonight. It was neat to see Tornado F3's and GR4's,
F16's and Mirage 2000's, about 30 aircraft in all, which took off with less
than a minutes' separation. I was standing quite close to the runway so it was
good that I had ear-plugs in my pocket.
As you might have read, I'm going to the Netherlands tomorrow, where I'll be
staying for the weekend to take some civlian aircraft
pictures. The weather forecast promised terrible weather so that's just great!
/GEA
01-06-2007
(Friday 1310) Another week over and
another weekend has just begun. I managed to give my trip to Norway to a collegue of mine, which means that next weekend I'll be
going to Aalborg airshow instead of Norway. It's
going to be a really good airshow. 5 foreign
aerobatic teams will be present, including Frecce Tricolori and Patrouille De
France among others. For more info about the airshow
take a look at danishairshow.dk and click on Flying or Static display
accordingly to see what's coming.
Next Friday we have our exam in 8km off-terrain running and I feel in good
shape except for my right knee which has been bugging me for a while now. This
weekend I'll try to upload some pictures from my trip to the Netherlands and
from TLP if I get time. I have quite alot of
schoolwork to do, so there probably won't be any time for uploading pictures,
but we'll see.
Yesterday we had a briefing by 2 OCU pilots who are waiting for their turn to
get converted to the F16. They told us about what Canada will be like and what
to expect. It was quite motivating to hear about it and get reminded what it is
we're working for. I cannot wait for my turn to get back to the flying
business. The first year of Officer Academy is over soon and then we can almost
start to see light at the end of the tunnel...hopefully it doesn't shine from a
train's headlamp steaming at us at full speed...
/GEA
08-06-2007
(Friday 1345) As you probably know we
had the 8km rough terrain running exam today. On the initial test a few months
ago I ran it on 46:30, so I decided that my goal would be 40 minutes for the
exam. Unfortunately I've had a knee injury which has restricted me a bit
lately, so I did not make my goal. I ran the 8km in 40:12 which was 12 seconds
over...but that doesn't mean I'm not happy about it! I am satisfied with it
especially considering that we ran in really hot weather today...about 25
degrees in the shade, so it was extra hard, but perhaps to my advantage because
of my Southern genes? Who knows? Anyway, one of the best runners in class
fainted during the exam so I hope he's ok now, as he was fetched by an
ambulance. He runs extremely fast every time, always right on the limit of what
the human body is capable of...and I suppose the extra hot weather today was
just too much. There were a couple of other guys close to breaking down...those
steep hills are real killers! Anyway, the exam is overwith
and now I can just look forward to the airshow this
weekend. I bought a new lens for the camera last Monday (the dream-lens
actually!) It's a Canon 100-400mm L with image stabiliser so I can't wait to
try it out!
I leave to Aalborg tonight at about 1700 with another friend of mine, where we
can look forward to at least 4 hours in the train.
Anyway, that's it for now. Take care and stay in the shade!
/GEA
11-06-2007
(Monday 2315) The airshow
at Aalborg AB went great. The weather couldn't have been better and the new
lens that I bought performed really well indeed! I have uploaded a teaser of 3
pictures in the gallery to give you an idea of what it was like. The rest of
the pictures will be uploaded in batches as time goes by.
As you probably know, the weather has been very hot lately. Today we had about
30 degrees and even right now, it's still very hot, which is kind of unusual
for Denmark, but we're enjoying it while it lasts.
School is as usual, however tomorrow I have a rather unusual assignment which
I'll tell you about some other time...now I'm off to bed.
/GEA
13-06-2007
(Wednesday 0810) Back at school and I
suppose I can tell you about yesterday's unusual assignment. The Air Force has
a recruiting campaign going on and every year they make an event, where
high-school students get the opportunity to take part in order to hear about
their carreer opportunities in the Air Force. The
thing is called "Stud-Luft" which can be losely translated to Student Flight. Every year the Air
Force makes an advert, where they take pictures of some models wearing the AF
uniform and then print the advert in all kinds of magazines and newspapers in
order to draw the young people's attention. This year they decided to use 'real
people' in the advert instead of models and I was one of the three
"chosen" ones. It was quite en experience, I must say. First a
stylist gave us Hollywood make up on and fixed our hair (not so much mine due
to the lack of lenght) and then a photographer took
the pictures.
So now I suppose I can write "model" too on my CV.
Back to business: Today and tomorrow we have the second part of the coaching
course, which means that we'll finish at around 2200 tonight and then we'll be
staying here at school for the night. That's it for now...stay tuned!
/GEA
18-06-2007
(Monday 2010) Another day almost over
and sometimes it's good to simply stop and look back. The first year of two at
the Officer Academy is almost over and it actually went much faster than I had
expected. Sometimes the dream seems so distant and I suppose that's why it's
important to look back once every while, and see how far you've come. I feel so
greatful that I am where I am and so previlaged to be working with what I always dreamt
of...with what many dream of yet most people never get the chance to give it a
shot. It's funny because just 10 years ago, I could have never imagined myself
living in
As you've probably noticed I have uploaded some more pictures from Aalborg airshow and believe me, there's many more on the way! There
are also some pictures from TLP which need to be uploaded and those from
/GEA
24-06-2007
(Sunday 2235) Another week over soon and
tomorrow we start the last week of school before the summer holidays.
Unfortunately we only have 3 weeks of holidays, but it's always better than
nothing.
We have a test in State Knowledge tomorrow. I feel wuite
comfortable with the Danish political system, however I don't feel that strong
in EU politics and it's relation to us. It's all quite complicatedand
there are so many things to confuse. Anyway, I'll think I'll be ok in
tomorrow's test.
Now it's time to upload a few pictures from Aalborg airshow
onto the picture gallery. Take care!
/GEA