Apprentice Lost in Parallel

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Kevin Colbran. Apprentice Lost in Parallel

Introduction

Adventures

The Way Becomes Clear

Education

Sandy's Project

Empty World

Politics

Solving Two Problems With One Stone

Operation shell game

A side trip

New challenges

Is this the way our patents are resolved

All good things must come to an end

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"Well, here I am early again with 30 minutes to kill," I thought arriving at Ultimo Tech College (Biggest TAFE in the Free World) with the (sweet?) smells wafting in from the Kent Brewery on Broadway and the Sun Herald newspaper printers. The College consists of several purpose-built schools interspersed with shops and homes which were taken over to house offices and external courses altogether covering an area of roughly a square kilometre; interlaced with a labyrinth of streets and laneways.

Having entered the concourse of the Mechanical Campus from the car park end, I had walked past the stairs leading up to the Aircraft Maintenance School where I was to spend most of the day alternating between practical and theory classes. I was looking down the concrete hallway contemplating possibilities when something attracted my eye to the lift door opening nearby, and a man stepped out. On impulse, I slipped past the doors before they could close.

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Senior talked on, this over the inbuilt radio. ”For today, we will start with having some fun.”

“Just stay with me if you can,” Senior said as he then moved off at a slow trot. Seeing that I was keeping up, increased his pace until I was having trouble maintaining my balance, eventually tripping up and crashing into a bush. As he helped me back onto my feet, he commented; “With a few more crash and burns, you will be an expert.”

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