Always Something New

It is turning out that joining the fire department was an excellent decision. Training for the competition was on friday and that went fairly well.. however i cannot throw a fire straight yet or roll them up very quickly but after the third drill there was quite an improvement. what we have to do is a series of steps correctly like a relay almost and then take it all down and put it all away correctly all under 10 minutes..... the more mistakes you make the more points you lose..as well as the slower you are the more points you lose. the best departments get to move along to the next tiered division. and we have now started our training which will be almost every friday so i should get a hang of it soon!

Saturday i volunteers to be an injured person for a fire department practice. here is how it all went down

• do to this Scheiße language barrier i got myself into a practice that didnt end until 3:30 in the morning. 
• at 9 we (fire fighters from my surrounding villages and me and 2 ppl from mine) sit in a hockey arena and wait to be made up with fake blood and all sorts of different injurys from simple as a broken arm (me) to 17 deaths, people with major blood loss, broken limbs, amputated limbs.. pretty much anything you can think of.
• once everyone was all made up and giving there part to act out.. (the language barrier actually played out to my advantage at with me only having a broken arm)
• so after waiting  3 hours.. freezing might i add... we were all taken down to a train and loaded the car and got into position.paramedics then came in and added more fake blood and proper positions so it looked as realistic as it could. (because this practice the fire department actually dont know now that it is a practice till they get there... all that they new is there pagers went off at 12:30ish explaining an accident with a train and where it was.. so for all they knew it was real)
• they (about 80 fire men and women from Lüneburg (where the accident was) and surrounding towns) the start to rescue us as if it was real. 
• it was super cool to be a part of.. and not being able to fully understand just helped the practice be even more real.
• once i was rescued i was taken up by the fire department and handed over to paramedics where they had to practice there protocol too.  
• even though it was a very long and cold night. it was something super cool to be apart of a guaranteed i would have never done anything like that at home.   

Hopefully i havnt left anything out... but today i am running on very few hours of sleep due to this event.. and then had to be at a wedding anniversary party today. But i really cannot complain because live is so GREAT!

xo -B  

Fire Department / Easter

Tuesday i had my first training session with the Natendorf fire department, which was supper cool. i got to use a fire hose and learn how to properly open a door...then we just sat around and drank... which they do a lot.. so i think it will make up for me missing ball season this year. haha

Then Easter... which was awesome in itself just having four days off..
Friday we just hung out and relaxed (the weather has been crap so a lot of reading has been done on my end)

Saturday was the Easter fire which was soooo cool it was a hung bonfire that the fire department put on with drinking and bratwurst, because i am part of the fire department now we went early in the after noon to finish the final set up even though there was already a HUGE pile of wood.. more was added. and the night was a major success.

Sunday was more relaxing until we went to a friend in Natendorf's house for a small gathering with drinks because him and his wife just had a baby... however.. the drinks kept on coming and after some odd (tasty) high percentage of alcohol shot.. Brenna was gone! (white girl wasted if you will) to sum it all up... my host parents are loving making fun of me..

and well Monday was a complete right off with me not being able to stand vertical until about 2 in the after noon... i also missed a family dinner due to this massive hangover.

and  for this week things will go back to normal with the children going back to school and my school starting back up again now that Easter Holidays are over.

Xo -B