It's Friday!!!!!!! Somehow for me that doesn't sound as good as it does to everyone else...I'll explain. ->I don't have a weekend! For some this is a four day weekend, me I get Sunday off. I even go to school on Monday (labor day!) BUt I'm not complaining (really!) I go to school on Saturday...all day. Wake up at 5am, be there by 645am, stay until...they let us go home (probably not until after 6pm) But I love it. I'll probably Die on Saturday...*shakes head* a lot harder than most people think. They are gonna try to get us a 110' ladder (that's the equivalent of an 11 story building), also they said for our Search and rescue drill the place we are going has smoke....Sweet! even though I don't quite know what it means, I know it means we won't be able to see.
I'm on Engine 5! hehhe, 5 is me!
Friday, August 29, 2003
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Monday, August 25, 2003
It's Monday again...hehehe that just made me think "looks like someone has a case of the Mondays" I don't , by the way, have a case of the Mondays. I'm having a good day. I started my Fire Op's 1-2 class on Saturday...I was SO nervous on Friday night. I went to bed at like 11, and woke up...felt so good, thought my alarm would be going off any second...looked at the clock...1am! thought "shit, I still have to sleep more!" fell back asleep, woke up again thinking my alarm would be going off any second. turned on my phone and it was like 3:27am! Son of a B**ch! I couldn't fall back asleep until after 4am. Then I slept until the alarm went off. :) Nice...
The class was great. 03-04! Yeah! Monday/Wednesday group got to go through the skills course first. Thank God! because the Tuesday/Thursday group had to do it after lunch. Yuck...I'd have puked for sure (instead of just swallowing it). First they split us into Engine companies. I was on Engine 8! (Yay Engine 8!) and we did turnout races. My Engine took 2nd! Pretty good out of 8 huh? Then the instructors took us around the course. Engine 8 stayed turned out the longest! (or so I was told) It looked like we did.
I totally overheated in the Burn Tower. When We got done with that they let our engine go to Rehab and I felt like shit because I thought I did really bad in the burn tower, but one of the lab techs said "if it makes you feel better there were more people sitting in re-hab than finished the course" It did make me feel better because engine 8 finished the course. After being in re-hab for a little while we pulled some huge ass tires, "opened" fake hydrants, pulled the tires again, pulled some weights up by rope, and went through the burn tower again. A few Lab Techs told me I kicked ass out there...I hope they were right. I have class in like 5 hours.
The class was great. 03-04! Yeah! Monday/Wednesday group got to go through the skills course first. Thank God! because the Tuesday/Thursday group had to do it after lunch. Yuck...I'd have puked for sure (instead of just swallowing it). First they split us into Engine companies. I was on Engine 8! (Yay Engine 8!) and we did turnout races. My Engine took 2nd! Pretty good out of 8 huh? Then the instructors took us around the course. Engine 8 stayed turned out the longest! (or so I was told) It looked like we did.
I totally overheated in the Burn Tower. When We got done with that they let our engine go to Rehab and I felt like shit because I thought I did really bad in the burn tower, but one of the lab techs said "if it makes you feel better there were more people sitting in re-hab than finished the course" It did make me feel better because engine 8 finished the course. After being in re-hab for a little while we pulled some huge ass tires, "opened" fake hydrants, pulled the tires again, pulled some weights up by rope, and went through the burn tower again. A few Lab Techs told me I kicked ass out there...I hope they were right. I have class in like 5 hours.