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Sunday. The snow is melting. I like that, hopefully it’s all gone tomorrow.
I survived the course. I got there almost 20 minutes later, luckily everyone was late because of the bad weather conditions.
I managed to resuscitate a half plastic man and to stabilize a conscious person. I’m not sure I’ll ever try to do that with and unconscious or a real injured man.
How to remove the helmet of an alive person is not easy… I can’t imagine how it would be to do it on an unconscious person, under pressure, in the middle of the highway and when the body is not on the preferable laying position. I better keep my phone always with me and call an ambulance.
If I say I understood 20% of the course, I’m being really generous.
For some reason, the course ended two hours earlier. I think the guy wanted to go home early. He decided to make 2 groups and let other Red Cross volunteers help. A total of 4 guys from 21 to 28 years of age were giving and showing tips and tricks. I felt ancient. My teachers were always older than me (that was 20 years ago, of course).
The only problem was that I told the man to pick me up at 5pm and at 3pm I was free in the cold. A nice Polish (?) lady offered to take me to the train station and from there I got closer to home so the man could pick me and drive me here.

No nice dessert (not desert) for my kids. They stayed outside playing and I was frozen and exhausted.

I’ll catch up reading blogs and replying to comments soon. I don’t really have much time these days and nothing seems to be working. The reader is showing only a few posts and I can’t scroll down. I’m not really happy with WordPress now.

Some pictures from yesterday.

The streets looked like this.

The view from the Red Cross building

The train station

My pond

My kids

The snow man near my front door. He’s smiling, me too.

~ by DotedOn on January 25, 2015.