Wayne
All hands on deck!After a quick week in Spain to recharge the batteries, September has been all about the office move for me. I’m really excited to finally realise one of the company’s long-term ambitions, as our Leeds office is looking great!
With that said, I’ve had no time to write my end of month blog. It’s fair to say that I underestimated the time the move would take, but we’re in now, and we look forward to sharing some pics once we’ve completed the finishing touches.
So for now I’ll leave you to read what the rest of the team has been up to (and they’ve been a great help with the move). And you’ll hear from our new additions for the first time; a warm welcome to Chris & Kayleigh!
Andrew
Watch out, watch out, Andrew's about!In comparison to normal, I’ve had quite a lot going on this month. I have had frequent driving lessons throughout which has been both weekends and evenings. This has been exhausting but worth it to get me on the road quickly. I’ve come a long way from starting back in August where I could barely move the car. I can now comfortably change gears, position the car correctly and drive on dual carriage ways. The big thing I need to practice now is parking so I can hopefully pass in October. Not a bad recovery from having to switch instructors so early when my previous one had her only manual car break down. The current instructor I’ve had to get me through this journey has been great as well. He’s been very chill with casual conversations and occasionally having a bit of a laugh but has also been open to me asking questions and being very helpful with the parts I struggled with.
In other news, my brother has now officially left the army and has joined the police down south. He has a new flat in London and we went down to visit him and check out his new place. He seemed to be very keen in starting his new job and couldn’t resist telling us all the details about the laws he’s been studying. As you expect living down in London, he is paying a very high amount of rent for such a small space, but he is happy to be moving forward nonetheless.
I then attended my cousin’s wedding a weekend later and really enjoyed the service. It started off meeting with family where it’s just the typical conversations like the weather and asking how you are doing. We then did the service where there was some good live orchestral music playing. It was fun to listen to modern songs, anime songs and even heavy metal songs but done in a classical style. We all then got treated to free beer and champagne to celebrate. When we went for the meal, we got two free bottles of wine to share between each family table which always makes an evening spectacular. My table consisted of under 18s, my grandad who doesn’t drink and two drivers which just left three of us to share the two bottles. We of course didn’t want to let it go to waste.
For my apprenticeship, I am finally approaching the end with just my two end assessments to come in the coming month. That means no more portfolio work and the final project is completed. I think the apprenticeship has been a good experience to gain a lot of knowledge in software development. There are a lot of topics that have been strengthened such as the processes within the Software Development Lifecycle because of applying my real work to it. I look forward to seeing what comes next.
