WAG - Training: Day 1
or Boy is My Brain Full
Ug... Heh, heh, heh.
Did you ever feel tired, a bit rundown, and overloaded, but still felt like laughing at the day you'd had?
Well, as displayed by the opening line, you should be able to tell that I had.
When the Student Staff training schedule says noon to 6, 7 to 10, they mean it.
It's been a bit bumpy listening to large blocks of information; most of which will be explained in proper detail later (or so we are often told). Though that is rough, I'm catching up with old friends (a number of acquaintances got hired late in the day for staff vacancies) as well as making new friends.
To concerned friends or family members, my room is fine and mostly everything is working okay. I love my single room. The bathroom with a shower is a major plus; and once the hot water is turned on, it will be even better (laugh, but I know people who have water, but no internet. If I had to choose, I know I would stay in the current situation). Also, I don't know how one screws up hooking up a phone, but I am still having trouble; which will come back to haunt me sooner than later if I'm not careful.
In the meantime, I hope to find time to catalogue some of the better scenes, as well as finish all my summer wrap-up posts, but let me just finish tonight with this.
Today, the most talked about/discussed/mocked training module was "Controled Burn" where a police officer burned synthetic marijuana so the student staff could learn what it smelled like.
Needless to say this whole premise prompted lots of jokes as well as revelations from staff members that would sometimes interject frightingly detailed information. The room we were in was very crowded and I was in a group that was situated around a corner, so we were free to make jokes, mug, and record the seemingly more outrageous comments.
Here are some selected quotes:
On people who are stoned: "They utter the phrase 'Huh?' a lot."
After a distracting question: "Where were we...? Oh yeah...bongs."
And last, after it was explained that in the previous year they used authentic marijuana (in an even more tightly enclosed space) rather than synthetic: "Last time we did it the other way around: we burned it, THEN we talked about it. We're not doing THAT again."
Brought to you by the fine folks down at MUPD.
They're not real cops, but don't point that out to them; it might hurt their self-esteems.
Goodnight.
'Insert_Cheech_and_Chong_joke_here'
