Whew! What an exhausting past three days. The first two days of orientation were boring but today I was in for a real treat. Today we learned about managements and restraints. Managements are a verbal de-escalation technique and restraints are physical contacts used to prevent individuals from harming themselves or others. While restraints are to be avoided for the obvious reasons, the most important is for the safety of myself!!! The likelihood of getting injured is almost guaranteed to happen if a restraint is used. I heard a horror story about a situation that happened last night and one of the kitchen staff got a nice chunk of skin bitten on her hand. Needless to say, I took the training very seriously and during one of the practices got taken down HARD by the instructor. I got a lovely head butt to the chin and it required 4 people to help me hold down one guy. Can’t wait to see how beat up I get tomorrow!
It’s getting late so I’m gonna wrap up here but wanted to mention that I had a great time tonight at dinner with Katie Bruce in Denver and that I find out tomorrow whether or not I advance on to the next stage of my Teach for America Application :-) Wish me luck!
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