WFR- part one

I'm not sure how many of these I'll be able to do, but I'll try to send in semi-frequent reports in on how I'm doing. So. After a day of traveling I arrived in Conway, NH at the SOLO institution of wilderness medical training on 5/16 where I met some friends I would be staying with for the next 10 days to get my Wilderness First Responder license. While some of them are training to be wilderness EMT's (4 week course) we're all housing together.

Classes began the next day at 8:00 where we we're introduced to our new temporary home. Our teacher, and old british former SAS operative named Bill, started the first day of classes with a lesson on Patient assessment, including primary survey (is it safe? are they still breathing? are they bleeding to death?) and secondary survey (where is all their broken stuff?) Classes ended at around 5:00 pm and we were assigned some reading HW.

Today, we learned all about CPR. The teachers here are all hilarious, candid, and professional and it makes learning first-aid surprisingly amusing and thorough. I just finished lunch so we still got another 4 hrs ahead of me. This kinda feels like a first-aid intensive. It's pretty neat, I'm excited for the remainder of my days here.