I got to make out with Robin Williams today. Actually, I didn’t - I got some child dummy called Nathan - but other people got to make out with Robin Williams. The adult dummies we had for the First Aid course looked uncannily like him, but with a whole lot less body hair. And fewer limbs. It was quite bizarre. I took a couple of photos of it to share the freakiness with all of you - I’ll put them in here when I’ve redownloaded the software to get them off my phone (since I lost it when my hard drive died).

So anyway, the day went quite well. I did the course with a colleague, and he asked me whether I got any more information about the course, because someone he knew doing the course said you had to bring pen and paper, and your own lunch. Pardon? Your own lunch? What kind of show are they running here? I thought at least some of the exorbitant course fees these days covered lunch and morning/afternoon tea pastries. Alas, no. So I went to a sort-of-nearby shopping centre at lunch time and ordered a toasted ham and cheese thingy, only to remember that I had no money. I asked the woman behind the counter whether there was an ATM nearby, and she said there was one outside. So I tried to withdraw some cash, only to be told by the machine that my savings account wasn’t linked to my card. Shit. Bloody bank, they have been totally incompetent lately, resulting in M filing a lengthy complaint, so to have this extra stuff-up was a real pain, particularly because the patronizing woman at the branch assured me that my account was linked to the card. Umm, don’t think so, cow! So I had to borrow some money from one of the other girls in the course. I was so embarrassed, but fortunately she was really nice about it. So I have to remember to take some money for her tomorrow.

As for what we actually did, we did CPR of course, and bandaged each other up, and put slings on each other - it was pretty cool. We get to do it all again tomorrow, plus a written test. Eeek. But the first half has been good, so I can go back to work on Wednesday, completely prepared to take care of the poor sick nerds. Unfortunately there’s only one good-looking guy there to take care of ;)