i have spent the last week in melbourne doing my work experience. my 5 choices were- Customs, army, police, air marshal or the circuit. lol...i didn't get any of them for sum reason. i ended up working in CBD bikes. i didn't know how i would go there, i wasn't sure if i would really click with the whole fixing bikes. but after the first day i loved it. we left on my 17th birthday, which was kinda a fuck. mum only remembered it was my birthday just before i got on the bus and dad didn't even get to say happy birthday to me. i was away for a week, so when i got back mum had forgotten what i wanted for my birthday tea. the prestents that i got i knew about. i don't really give a fuck tho. i was a little dissapointed, but then i sucked it up and saw that at least i had family to share it with and got presents. when i started working i kept telling my self that the bikes i were fixing or cleaning, were mine and i had to make them the best. i wouldn't let a bike have any dirty marks on it and i wouldn't over look not tightening the brakes or spokes. the people that i worked with were fair and bloody patient with me, which helped me more than anything. pete was tha manager and he has the best fucking customer relations that i know. he can pick differnt people as soon as the walk in the door. rebecca was a bike mechanic and she had to be one of the fittest people that i have eva met. she can get to 16 on the beep test. simon was a customer service guy and he is from england, so he talked for hours to any one that would listen, the guys told me in the shop that thats how poms are. they just love to talk shit. lol. my boss was anthony. i didn't get to talk to him much, but he seemed like a great bloke and he was very straight down the line. he knows how to talk to people. finally there was the mechanic that i worked with for my 5 days. Brook. he was the man. he is the fucking funniest bloke i have eva met and can do anything with a bike. he took a wheel apart and put it back togther in less than 1 min. there is sum thing like 20 different parts to the wheel. i got talking to him on the fourth day and i found out that he was in the army. not only in the army, but in the special forces (what i wanna be in). i loved all his different stories and the way he got a little smile as he told me about differnt operations they had done. brook's life was bloody interesting. he dropped out of school when he was 15 and became the bike mechanic for the russian riders team. he says that he joined the army for a break and loved every second of it. he rekons that he is the best shot with riflein australia. i have to dissagree with him there, because i am up and summing and in a matter of months i will be the best in the world. lol. nah, but brook was a good man, i loved every second that we worked together. in the end i got paid $$80 and got a fuck load of "know how" around bikes. i really liked working there and wouldn't mind at all if i ended up getting in to bikes or even worked in a bike shop later in my life. it was a good week