Today we woke up at 5:00 am to do our baseline physical tests. After stretching we were tested on how many push-ups we could do in 2 minutes and how many sit-ups we could do in two minutes, then immediately after we ran 1.5 miles. I was at the top of my pod by far with my 100 push-ups, 77 sit-ups and 12:04 time. I finished the run in the top 20 and I was near the top for both the push-ups and sit-ups of everyone.
After that we all ate breakfast and made our dinners and then had meetings all day about the Red Cross Disaster Training. It was the most boring and insulting talk I've ever heard. They talked for nearly 6 hours about absolutely nothing and made us watch goofy videos from the 80's that weren't anywhere near relevant to us. I felt like I was in some grade-school assembly where they asked us questions like "if you're trying to give people food, you don't want to give them too much, because then it's wasteful, but you don't want to have too little either because then some people won't get food, right everyone?" "riiight..." That really happened. Many many times... Sigh... But now it's over and dinner is next. And perhaps some soccer!
-J
P.S. There are photos posted on facebook of some of the past few days.
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Damn, 100 push-ups in two minutes? Is that even viable? You're insane Joey, you're insane. I'm sorry you had to sit through lame-ass videos, did you at least get to see the chemistry safety video where the guy gets the glass tube shoved into his hand, filling it with blood?
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that the talks are aiming at the mean, and I expect that you are farther than two standard deviations from it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, why don't you take some notes while you are sitting there and have your extra service project be designing a new, relevant, effective training program for Americorps NCCC? Just a thought.
-She Who Begat Awesomeness
That might be viable if it were a presentation by Americorps NCCC. However it was a Red Cross presentation that we had to listen to to get "certified" as disaster specialists. Kind of scary to think that the people they have teaching us are a 19 year old computer geek who reads from the handbook and a 20-something ditzy idiot girl that answers every question with a vague pointless response...
ReplyDeleteThere's obviously room at the top (as usual). Pitch it to the Red Cross...they could use an improved profile.
ReplyDeletePoint of clarification: Men begat, women be gotten.
ReplyDeleteThat comment is rude and sexist. Flagged. Dislike.
ReplyDeleteHi Joey – My name is Carrie Housman and I work in Disaster Services at the American Red Cross. I’m sorry to hear that your disaster training wasn’t as productive as we would have liked. As a volunteer-led organization, we depend on volunteers with a wide-variety of skills from around the country to teach disaster relief courses. I’m hoping you were given an opportunity to evaluate your instructors at the end of the course – if not, or if you have suggestions on how we can do better, please send me an email at housmanc@usa.redcross.org. The Red Cross depends on our volunteers and partners like AmeriCorps to help people in need, and we’ll all be better equipped to fulfill our mission by working together. I look forward to receiving your suggestions!
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Agreed!
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