Monday, June 16, 2008

The First Day of Orientation

Today was a long day, we got started at around 7:30 AM and went to a little after 6PM. We do get an hour for lunch, and we found a really good Chinese restaurant, Wing Wah. You get tremendous value for your dollar there, the cost included hot tea, and a bowl of egg drop soup. The food was excellent, large portions and well flavored. The only thing I would have liked is for the spicy to be a bit more spicy, I could barely taste it for something that came with a warning.

We started the day with a paperwork process that would make the IRS proud. Never in my life have I had to supply three years of W2s to prove my previous employment. The number of different forms that we signed was insane as well. For some reason I had to study a little extra hard for my drug test. Even though I drank a lot I still had to drink a water and wait till around ten central time to finally be able to go.

I packed food to save money, so didn't have to leave to find lunch. After that was over we did several assessment tests to check our knowledge of logs and maps. I didn't do to badly with the log one, but only missed two question on the maps, one of those was due to reading the question wrong.

Tonight I have some homework to work on, it is planning a trip and then logging it as if it was actually happening. Shouldn't be too difficult, except the need to make a note of every single change, well it feels that way anyway.

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