2003- St. Louis Relay School Trip
2003
| By the end of 2003, I was ready to move into my permanent position in the company and start making contributions. Being a newbie, my boss decided the best thing to do with me is to send me back to school again. I cannot get rid of the feeling that my extreme good luck on being able to go on this trip is due to someone else’s lack of interest to participate. |
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| Day 1: Market Street
ABB hosted their Basic Relay School in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Located on Market Street, you can walk down the street toward the Arch and pass by all sorts of interesting buildings. |
Day 2 - Going no where…
The school exhausted me more than I had planned. Through out my college years, I slept through 50% of all my classes. Now that I am working, I have developed the power to stay awake, but not the power to understand how the positive, negative, and zero phase sequence can coexist in perfect harmony without the electrical power background that everyone else in the class have.
During breaks, I would run down the stairs to the mall that is also in the Union Station. Found two machines, in between classes.
| Day 3 - Forest Park
It rained continuously through the week we were in St. Louis. The only good day was the morning and early afternoon of Day 3, which we spent on studying bus protection. When the class adjourned, I skipped the ABB hosted dinner and took the MetroLink to Forest Park. |
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The trip to Forest Park turned out to be a horrible mistake. Not only did I missed a fabulous dinner, I almost got soaked with the rain that came in the early evening. The St. Louis Zoo was closed by the time I got anywhere near there, but I wasn’t able to even see the gates since I was so lost in the park.
| Day 3: The Arch
The last day, a couple of hours before my plane leaves, we finally got to see the Arch. The Arch itself is amazing, but what’s more amazing is the number of people who wanted to get on the top. The elevator ride would of taken an hour, and we didn’t have that sort of time (2/3 of the party just isn’t interested in rolling pennies…) |
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