Diving in Head First
So this weekend a few staff members and I got the opportunity to take a Wilderness First Aid course. Of course I jumped on the idea, especially since the base would be paying for it. =) So we headed up near Arthur’s Pass Saturday morning to join our class of about a dozen students for some sweet rockin first aid learnin. We had a blast, learned tons and I even got to teach a bit. During our night senario the instructors kinda threw us in the deep end, giving us some stokes but not teaching the group how to use them, haha, yeah I know AWESOME! NOT! No one else knew how to use them, so I got to enjoy training everyone on the use of stokes in the dark. I may sound sarcastic but it was actually WAY FUN. The last time I took a course like this was three years ago, so it was great to relearn CPR and all that fun first aid stuff, seeing how I’d pretty much forgotten most of it.
During Staff Training this past week we chose our work duties for the quarter. I’ve taken on: Transportation, meaning I’ll be in charge of coordinating where and when the vans will be used for activities and making sure they are ready for use; Media, which I’m teaming up with Katie on to make a school video and all that fun jazz; Outreach Prep, which will require me to prepare the students for different areas of ministry they may come across… although I don’t exactly know how that will look right now. =) I’m really excited about these though and looking forward to meeting the students.
Today was crazy because we had to sittuate all the rooms with the appropriate beds, furniture, paint and MANY other loco projects all around the base to prep for the students. I met our first student yesterday and they’ll officially begin arriving at the base tomorrow. My small group is four guys all from the states. They’re ages are all somewhere between 18 and 23 and they all seem to be WAY cool guys. The school starts this Sunday and I hear we’ll be leaving for outreach some time right after Christmas. I’m SUPER STOKED and will make sure to keep you updated on how the first week of staffing goes.
God Bless, and keep on rockin as you do
