Examination time!

Sorry for the lack of updates for the last few weeks but I have been burying myself in my Cisco CCNA certification, I should have done it over the summer in the U.K. but I never got around to it, in the end I booked it with a weeks notice and got stuck in! 

I spent a few days reading a big textbook cover to cover and then started on 700 practise questions, but then warning of a second typhoon hitting the place i booked the test came in and I was forced to change, the place was hit pretty heavilly! 

I made some progress on the 700 questions but then unfortunately i ran out of time but the CCNA has free unlimited re-scheduling! I rescheduled for the next day again in Fuzhou and so yesterday headed to Fuzhou, a big city 2 hours away by train.

Once there I found the hotel I booked and found it was 5 doors down from the test centre! 

Last night I went and checked out the place and found it, the amazing sounding "Fuzhou Top Federal Software Service Co., Ltd"! 

I found it, the most dodgy, shady little set of stairs behind a small shop (pictures to come!) but inside I found a Pearson Testing approved testing centre! I was the first foreigner ever to come and they had to boot up all the systems just for me but once going it went perfectly, I took the test and got 933 out of 1000 points and so passed! This was excellent so now I have a day in Fuzhou to celebrate before heading back to Lingxi and starting to try and fit all my stuff into a bag to move onto the next place. At the moment this might be Ningbo, only a couple of hours north, but into a very famous university in China, but who knows!

picture 1/. Me standing outside the rather sketchy entrance to the testing centre!

2/. the stairs up...

3/.  the little doorway, into a brightly lit ,clean, testing centre!

4 & 5/. the testing centre at night! even worse!