Last Monday and Tuesday I had a first aid course at school. It was for all grade 10s in the IB program, so we were about 50 students. We met from 8am to 4pm in the library and three instructors from St. John Ambulance taught us a lot about first aid. We started with easy things and went on with CPR and AED. We often worked in groups or pairs and we learned a lot in these two days. I already knew most of the things, because my last first aid course was only a few month ago, but I learned something new too. I’ve never worked with an EpiPen or seen one. Here, mostly everybody knows how to use it and deal with allergies. We also learned about airway and breathing emergencies, wounds and bleeding, bone and joint injuries, things like poisoning, head injuries and so on. It was a lot!! And we are going to have a test next week. Nooo! At the very end of the course we did some nice group work. I was in a group with my friends Sarah and Alessia. One of us was the casualty and was told a short story by the instructors. Then, the others had to deal with the injury. Well, one time, Sarah came to us and was holding her hand. She told us that she had cut herself with a knife and at the exact same moment she dropped a bloody plastic finger and started laughing 😂. It was really funny! Another time I worked with Larissa and we did random bandages and the instructor criticized almost everything. Yes, we had a funny time 😝
