Got a call early this week

[Rocketryan]

Well after telling about everyone I know I thought I would share it here too 

I went to the recruiters 4 weeks ago at the Lorne Scots in Brampton as part of the Co-op program. Had some questions, got them answered and handed in my complete application 2 weeks ago. Earlier this week was the cut off date and all the applications got sent to the recruiting office in Toronto(or Mississauga).

On Wednesday, I get home from school, see a note saying to call the recruiting office to schedule my CFAT and Interview. So I'm really excited, took a few minutes to calm down, dialed the number and talked to the recruiter. Scheduled my CFAT in the morning, interview after the test, and a medical after lunch for next Monday . If all those go well I get to schedule the physical test.

I'm not to worried about the medical,I am probably going to be really nervous for the interview, I took a practice CFAT online and I did ok, the number patterns and some of the verbal questions got difficult however.I can do the situps easily, pushups and the running were the things I needed to push myself for and I did just a bit better than the standard. So I'm still doing pushups and situps, not many places to run that are not covered in ice but theres a new gym opening up soon that has a track so I'll try there.

So hopefully everything goes well and I'll update this in a week

 

[tomahawk6]

Sounds good Ryan. Congrats !! 

 

[Rocketryan]

Ok....just got back like 30 minutes ago from the recruiting centre.

It all went pretty well, CFAT went smoothly, some tough bits but all in all I did well. Really nervous for the interview but it went well too, medical, everything went well, hearing test was a bit difficult since I could hear the conversations of everyone outside making it a bit difficult to hear the test but it still went pretty well (I hope ).

On a side note....The CFRC is awesome, Flatscreen TV, lots of videos, BMQ,Army News, Truth Duty Valor. A lot of things to read, comfortable chairs

And I got paid 35 dollars too!!

 

[Mike Baker]

Congrats Ryan! Give 'er!

Cheers
Mike

 

[mysteriousmind]

Good for you

Godd luck

 

[Rocketryan]

Got an email from recruiter, Fitness test of 30th

Sorta nervous for step test, haven't really ran much this winter, Only twice . Once to see what it was like (Didn't like it much, cold, looking out for ice half the time) And the second time I almost hurt head which I think would've been really bad ( slipped on ice , headfirst into snow, about less than a foot away from me was someones driveway)

Everything else I'm good to go for

 

[Mike Baker]

Good luck with it Ryan!

 

[Rocketryan]

Well today the Highway got closed so we cancelled the fitness test
The recruiter called me again maybe 5 hours later saying theres an opening for a fitness test in Hamilton.
But Hamilton is pretty far and our vans engine just quit today..

 

[omgLiam]

Aren't the CFRC's willing to pay for you to get there?

 

[ghyslyn]

Aren't the CFRC's willing to pay for you to get there?

yea i think if you tell them and grab a receipt theyll pay you your cab fare(take a taxi, keep the receipt, and tehy pay you back)

 

[Rocketryan]

Well Im not going to be going tomorrow
Got back from doctors and he strongly advised that I should cancel (Im Sick)
So Im about to call and cancel

So much for doing Army Co-op

I am still wanting to join the reserves though

 

[omgLiam]

Just re-schedule it again, if you fail it because you weren't in prime condition, well, that's your fault. They won't care if you re-schedule it.

 

[Rocketryan]

Yea called my recruiter in Kitchener, left message, no reply today so I just called CFRC Hamilton and cancelled it
So It'll be rescheduled

 

[veale]

it would be too late for you to get onto the co-op now

 

[tech2002]

Good Luck

 

[Rocketryan]

Ok well Its been a while since I had to cancel my fitness test and since I wasn't doing co-op so focusing on school work became a bigger priority. Now that Im half way done Semester 2 I've been thinking that Im so close to getting accepted.

But I never got a call for a rescheduled fitness test from CFRC Hamilton

Should I be calling Kitchener (thats where I did everything else) to ask for a fitness date?

 

[Celticgirl]

Should I be calling Kitchener (thats where I did everything else) to ask for a fitness date?

It seems to me that calling would be better than not calling. 

 

[Rocketryan]

Ok, called them today before I went for a run, just did a km, its been quite a while since I've done some real running, got it done in around 4 minutes (Its taken me up to 6 minutes before so 2 Physically demanding classes this semester is a good idea ). So now I just gotta get used to running again.

As soon as I got back, got a call, scheduled fitness test for the 30th. It'll cost me 35 Dollars since last time I didnt cancel early enough .
Oh well everything has its price in life , just glad I got it scheduled

 

[Rocketryan]

Did my fitness test this morning.....


I PASSED!!! 

I was laughing for first couple minutes at step test music, so cheesy

I was so nervous this morning, but now I've been smiling non stop for the last 5 hours

 

[WannaBeFlyer]

Congrats. You had a step test? I thought it was the beep test now.