Opening my Ongoing Portfolio

Today is the last day of the first week but it’s the first day that I have been able to do any real work on this unit. Last Wednesday night I finished my SP2 examinations, and what little time I had on Thursday was spent on downloading materials for NET11, knowing that I would have time to review them on the weekend, but that there would be no connectivity.
So, it’s ironic that here today I am starting a unit on the Internet but I’m in a location, Riverwood Downs, 20km into the Barrington Tops from Stroud, some three hours driving out of Sydney, where there is no connectivity via my Telstra 3G card, in fact not even any mobile phone reception at all! As if to compound the isolation, this 4.5star resort has no telephones in the rooms and cabins, and the only public phone is “out of order”.
So I read through the downloaded material for Module 1. No chance of accessing the links or doing the activities – that’ll have to wait until I get home, including the only first week activity of accessing www.namechk.com.
It dawns on me I know a lot of this stuff, and maybe I should have considered applying for an exemption from NET11. But I come to the same conclusion as previously that my whole purpose in doing this and other units is to get formal training in subjects that I have a reasonable informal understanding of. I have found in other units that my informal understanding was patchy at best, and the rigour of undergraduate coursework together with the discipline of assignments and examinations has rounded me out considerably. So I decide, as before, that it’s the right thing to continue.