DaveWave94

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I'm sure it was a bit like a broken record, it was drawn out over months.

Thanks in all sincerety 🙏🏻

Thank you!

No worries, I think it's good advice. I'll stay in touch through messengers with the most important ones and we made plans to meet up again. 😉

Thanks! 👍🏻

Today was our certificate ceremony with a little celebration afterwards, so it was a pretty exciting day for me.

I already got all my written exam results on Wednesday and I was really surprised how good I was:

• Written exams: day one: 1/A; day two: 2/B; day three: 1/A
• Practical exam: 2/B
• Oral exam: 1/A

For a final score of 1,4 for my exams stand-alone and 1,2 for the theory of all three years of my retraining combined. Together with another classmate, we were awarded as the best male and female new nurse of our year respectively. Each of us got a nice flower and 50€. I never, ever was the best in anything... So currently I am really proud of myself. The only thing we have to wait for is our official nurse title, as this is handled by the state administration office and official documents take time to be printed. I hope we can hold them in our hands by Mid-late September. My mentors/practice instructors from my workplace were at the celebration too and seemed to be really happy about both me and another colleague/classmate passing our final exams.

The biggest part of my class went to eat at a greek restaurant with our teacher after the main celebration was over, which was just a twelve minute drive away. It was nice to wind down with good food, joke around and to revel in memories of the past 3 years.

What's my plan now? I'll stay working at my nursing home, just with reduced hours for the first year (30-35 h/week depending on staffing and workload) and then I want to become a mentor/practice instructor myself. For now, I'm so damn satisfied to have mastered a big step up in my career. My emotions are a weird mixture of pride, happiness and satisfaction, but also sentimental melancholia because I'll most certainly miss a few classmates a lot....

29.08.2025

• Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
• Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium w/ Superknurl handle
• Blade: Personna Super
• Lather: Barrister & Mann - The Full Measure of Man
• Post-Shave: OAM - oli del benessere - sensitive skin toner; moisturiser
• Fragrance: Bentley for Men Intense EdP
• Passes & Info: 2-pass head shave, a bit rushed but thankfully no irritation.

I actually did this shave way earlier, before my certificate ceremony w/ celebration - but I just now found the time to post.

This shave was great, even though I had to do it very fast. I didn't stretch my skin very much, just went with long strokes of the razor. Two passes were necessary this way, so I don't know if I actually saved that much time. I still showed up late (though not last) because the school had chosen a very remote location for the ceremony - had to walk through mud after finally finding a place to park my car and almost ruined my good leather shoes 🙄 More in the FTF thread.

FMoM seemed quite fitting to me: I like good tobacco scents and despite not owning it for long, it's one of my absolute favourites. The mild razor helped so I don't cut myself, as lots of photos were taken. My class - at least the biggest chunk of it - went to a greek restaurant with our teacher after everything was done. A nice day and a good shave beforehand, what more can I ask before the weekend?

Thanks! 🤝🏻

Indeed.

a necessary sacrifice for sure.

Thanks! 🙏🏻

Thanks! It's like a huge burden was lifted from me.

26.08.2025 | Celebratory Shave

• Brush: RazoRock Beehive 28 mm
• Razor: GEM Micromatic Bullet Tip/Flying Wing, gold plated
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
• Lather: HAGS - Barberwood
• Post-Shave: HAGS - Barberwood toner
• Passes & Info: 2 passes on the head, single ATG pass on the neck; kinda rough shave due to a new GEM blade, still enjoyed it very much.

It is done. Finally, I passed the last exam today and I aced it! It was an oral exam where we had to draw envelopes with different case studies and questions regarding nursing topics. My first draw was shite, but thankfully you get another: woohoo! A child w/ neurodermatitis, blood sampling, medical advice for the parents, skincare for ND and the impact of chronic illnesses on young people. Totally up my alley, so I passed with flying colours (A/1). Couldn't be happier since.

I wanted at least a short shave to celebrate, but in the end it was enough lather for 3+ passes. So I went with it, even though the shave was a bit rough thanks to the new GEM blade. Well, I wanted to use my only golden razor. Still worth it - as much as I dislike the generative AI tub art of this soap, the scent is so good. A bit sweeter than I usually like my barbershops, but at least the toner brings more of the woody notes that its name promises. This isn't the best HAGS base IMHO, even though "Hathor" sounds like the premium line. To me, the best is undoubtedly the mutton tallow base which seems to be a common preference in the wetshaving hobby. IDK, maybe sheep are really slick & greasy?!

Tomorrow we'll get our final results of all exams in the afternoon and on Friday our graduation certificate. I'm really stoked 👌🏻

Thanks. Aced it.