One to go!

The last two weeks have been incredibly fast, with courseworks and hand-ins all the time! Yesterday evening we handed in our International Commodity Trade coursework. The task was to create a business plan about a self-defined shipping, energy or logistics business. We chose to purchase 2 VLCCs and convert them to FPSOs. For questions, ask Wikipedia... I'll post a picture of the concept nevertheless



The picture is of Berge Helene, an Bergesen Worldwide Offshore FPSO.

Today I have just relaxed, and I'll probably just clean my room and wash some clothes this evening. Tomorrow we aim to complete our last coursework this term, about handling a bond portfolio for two weeks. In my eyes a bit stupid task, since bonds aren't really the financial securities that fluctuate the most on a two week basis...
I'm going home to Haugesund on Tuesday, and I'm staying home until April 8th. Then Elisabeth and I will have a couple of days in London before we spend Easter in Norway, Finally, I'll return to London on April 18th. Right now I'm just sorry that Ryan Air don't have a Frequent Flyer program. I would surely have had a Platinum card by the end of Easter.
On Wednesday we managed to fit into the schedule a panel discussion with persons in the Shipping industry who previously took a Cass MSc in Shipping, Trade & Finance. Very interesting! After that some of us went to a shipping dinner put together by Norwegian-British Chamber of Commerce and Acergy (Stolt Offshore previously). The food was very good, the presentations were OK and the people we met were great! For those of you who have it available, Tradewinds wrote a piece about it this week.
Other news this week is that Statoil have considered all the Norwegian shipping and energy students to be lightweighters. In other words, I've received rejections on all the positions I applied for there. I can't really do anything about it, but I've heard of applicants holding only a Bachelor's degree with no abroad experience who got an interview. So I guess the bottom line is that I'm VERY disappointed. It's their loss, though...
I've got a couple of other jobs I have applied for where I still await response, and I cross my fingers and check my mail every day. So maybe I'm lucky there.