Sunday, 22 June 2008

• For the last the days I've been taking tractor safety. Unfortunately I had to take the class so I can drive combine this summer. So Thursday through Saturday I spent the better part of my day at LBCC either sitting in a boring class or trying to learn how to drive a tractor, combine, or windrower. The combine and windrower were pretty easy cause all they made us do with those was drive them in a big circle. But the tractors were a little different. It wasn't so hard to drive them forwards or backwards, but the hard part was when they put the trailers on. We had to learn to back up a tractor with a trailer.

  So on Saturday we had to watch this video that had really gory pictures of accidents that had happened on the farm. They were really gross. I think about three people had to go out and one girl threw up and a bunch of us didn't watch the whole thing. So after that we practiced driving the tractors and then after lunch we started testing. First we did the written test. I wasn't really too worried about it. The instructor said it would be all either true or false or multiple choice. But it was harder than I thought. But thankfully I passed. I was so happy when I went to the white board and saw that my name was nowhere to be found. Cause if my name would have been on the white board that would have meant that I failed. So then it was time to take the driving test. For the test we had to drive the tractor with a trailer through some cones and then back it up straight. I was pretty nervous but I passed. Enough about tractor safety.

  Today I'm leaving to go to Winston to teach Bible School with four other girls. I went last year and I had a blast. I think this year will be awesome too!

   

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