i have had a long past few days. my wilderness first responder course met thursday evening 4-9 PM then again on friday, 1-10 PM and saturday 10-4 PM. i am so exhausted. but i did learn a lot. there was a girl on thursday who actually passed out while the teacher was talking and she fell backwards. i thought it was staged and we were supposed to take care of her or something, but it was real. and little scary too. but she was fine. i guess it's happened to her before....low blood sugar or something. it was pretty fun too yesterday and today cause we did scenarios and had volunteers out in the woods and a group of us would find them and have to treat them and get them out. for example, one scenario my group of three came up to a guy who "broke his leg and dislocated his arm." so we had to get him onto a sleeping pad so he was off the snow and then splinted his leg and arm and wraped him in a tarp. today was a little more frustrating cause our groups were bigger so there were a lot of people talking and telling other people what to do. i don't need to be a leader, and i don't mind being a follower, but it's difficult when i disagree with what the "leader" is doing. people take waaaay to long to get the patient off the snow and onto a pad. i just want to take over sometimes, but there's too many people. our mock rescue is in too week on the 9th. i'm a little nervous about that. i hope it goes well.

i got to see natalie today. she's adorable. and she's soooo smart too. i asked her to hand me the remote at the end of my bed and she did!! mom took a cute video of her jumping on the bed too. here's the link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWxyHtsKUs

i signed up for classes next fall. i am taking Teaching of Canoeing, Eval/Research in Leisure Services, Interp I Foundation/Guided Services, Leisure Through the Ages, and Hiking. I'm pretty excited about these classes. i hear the Interp class is kind of hard. and i think the eval/research one will be difficult too. but hopefully it will all be good. erika might take the hiking class with me which would be awesome.

next weekend i'm going to ewen to see john!! i miss him already. i can't wait for next fall also because he will be here!!! that's very exciting. i hope he'll enjoy nmu. i know i'll enjoy having him closer, instead of 2 hours away.

ok, that's it. i think i shall make some tea, watch twilight and then go to bed. goodnight all.