Sabbatical Week

I am in F1 School Workshop for Sabbaticals, and it was fun. It was held in the technical workshop in SRC, and we were going to do a race with our own hand-made D-type Racer. The car plane is made of a light wood called balsa, but when the shaped wood was given to us, it was very rough and coarse. We had to sand it with the two pieces of sandpaper that were handed to us and we could paint it ourselves! At first, I regretted coming into this sabbatical as it costed me 100 dollars, and the work were to be done ourselves. After everything, I changed my mindset and found out that the fun part was the making of the plane. I painted only one layer( which meant I did not make any mistake, not like other people with 3 or 4 layers.) Today we had the race, which I think was the whole cost spent on. The race track was 24 or 22 metres long, and is made of heavy metal. It had laser sensor which was very accurate, and also had air canisters for the carbon dioxide which speeded the car across. When all the "GO" lights had went off, you are supposed to press the button as quickly as possible. Thus, all about D-type Racing is not only the structure of the car, but the reaction time too. I was to race George, and because he had two layers of paint, his was quite heavy. My reaction time was 280, and his was 230, which made a big difference in the racing, but due to the weight, mine speeded when it started, and thus I won George, which I am happy for, as mine was ugly due to the little layers of paint.