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WAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today has been THE BEST day of my life so far. At 6:30 this morning I went down to the ambulance building and met with my instructors and fellow classmates before I start my class next week. There are 4 of us now; 1 dropped entry into the program for no reason last Friday. So that means even more 1 on 1 time with the instructor
I was the first student to show up (I'm first to everything, usually) so I went in and had a look around at the ambulances, equipment and everything else. About 15 minutes after I got there the other students all came in in 1 group. I hate to be critical but that is goign to be 1 tough bunch to work with. Hard headed, obnoxious, egotistical, the works. I stood there for a minute getting to know them and took a second to create a mental profile of each of their personalities. Then our main instructor came in and told us who he was, what he was here for, etc. The subsequent openings of the front door brought our other instructors and staff.
After about an hour of yakking he directed us over to the office part of the building so the secretary could confirm all our info, etc. Next it was over to the uniform department to get our uniforms. Nothing fancy, just navy blue EMT pants, white button up shirt and a seat belt cutter in a pouch to go on our belts. Once everybody was ready they loaded us all up into a ford van and drove us to the hospital to get bloodwork and tox screening done. When we came back they paired up 2 students with 1 Medic and took us out in 2 separate ambulances to get a feel for things (we went out of service during this time). When we got back to the base we were released and told we could leave, but I stayed.
My instructor saw me still out in the bay looking over the new Braun SuperChiefXL and came out to ask me why I hadn't left yet. I said, "Well sir I was just checking out the unit I will be riding in whenever we do clinicals." He laughed and said, "So you think this is gonna be your unit, eh?" I said, "Well I don't see why not." He said, "Well, if you are going to be the student in charge of this rig, let's get you a lesson on its function and operation." I watched as he opened up the back doors and then flipped the power shutdown on the rig to make sure I didn't turn anything on. He said. "Step up in there, it's all yours" I jumped up in there and tore that thing a new one- every cabinet, compartment, and crevice got emptied out and looked over. After about half an hour I was done and then proceeded to put things back the way they were. So that was another lesson. All those years of Tetris finally came to be of help.
I was starved after we got things packed away again so I bid goodbye and dove into taco bell on the way home. I think I have already started to get used to my instructor. The others I'm not sure about though.
Back to the subject of the thread, do you guys have any advice for me concerning my course? Any help would mena the world to me. Thanks guys.
I was the first student to show up (I'm first to everything, usually) so I went in and had a look around at the ambulances, equipment and everything else. About 15 minutes after I got there the other students all came in in 1 group. I hate to be critical but that is goign to be 1 tough bunch to work with. Hard headed, obnoxious, egotistical, the works. I stood there for a minute getting to know them and took a second to create a mental profile of each of their personalities. Then our main instructor came in and told us who he was, what he was here for, etc. The subsequent openings of the front door brought our other instructors and staff.
After about an hour of yakking he directed us over to the office part of the building so the secretary could confirm all our info, etc. Next it was over to the uniform department to get our uniforms. Nothing fancy, just navy blue EMT pants, white button up shirt and a seat belt cutter in a pouch to go on our belts. Once everybody was ready they loaded us all up into a ford van and drove us to the hospital to get bloodwork and tox screening done. When we came back they paired up 2 students with 1 Medic and took us out in 2 separate ambulances to get a feel for things (we went out of service during this time). When we got back to the base we were released and told we could leave, but I stayed.
My instructor saw me still out in the bay looking over the new Braun SuperChiefXL and came out to ask me why I hadn't left yet. I said, "Well sir I was just checking out the unit I will be riding in whenever we do clinicals." He laughed and said, "So you think this is gonna be your unit, eh?" I said, "Well I don't see why not." He said, "Well, if you are going to be the student in charge of this rig, let's get you a lesson on its function and operation." I watched as he opened up the back doors and then flipped the power shutdown on the rig to make sure I didn't turn anything on. He said. "Step up in there, it's all yours" I jumped up in there and tore that thing a new one- every cabinet, compartment, and crevice got emptied out and looked over. After about half an hour I was done and then proceeded to put things back the way they were. So that was another lesson. All those years of Tetris finally came to be of help.
I was starved after we got things packed away again so I bid goodbye and dove into taco bell on the way home. I think I have already started to get used to my instructor. The others I'm not sure about though.
Back to the subject of the thread, do you guys have any advice for me concerning my course? Any help would mena the world to me. Thanks guys.
