28 Months Later

I’m now a Basic Leadership School Graduate! By my reckoning, February 13th 2008 (the start of the first SDF in Australia) is when I consider myself to have started the BLS. Officially it wasn’t until the second half of that year when I actually started BLS. But I was given credit for the “prior learning” I received from the lectures and by staffing the first SDF. And now that I think about it, the first BLS lectures I went to were a few weeks before the start of the school, so it’s closer to 29 months (but I didn’t want to miss out on the movie reference).

BLS is a 18 month (normally) school that is run on the campus here. It teaches leadership skills (hence the name, although it is far from basic) as well as some of the logistics to staffing the various schools that run. I was supposed to graduate last October, but I still had a few assignments to finish (See here for that amazing story, and if you haven’t read it yet, this story is one of the most incredible events in my recent life, which is why I have now linked to it twice. So read it). Now all those assignments are finished all the various elements are completed and I have my certificate! YAY!