Officer Training Day 3

The day began similar to day two, up around 7 and eating by 8 a.m. in the cafeteria.  Meeting starting by 8:30 a.m.  Today a lot of work is being done with the students.  The previous day was a lot of advisor planning.  This is where we start planning our Program of Work (POW).  This is where officer decide what goals to accomplish for the year and who and how if will be accomplished.

this is an important step for the officer team, because it helps them to realize the commitment they have given to this organization as well as formulating what they will need to accomplish is the upcoming year.

Now for the day is it is similar to Monday but we are not having an etiquette dinner but instead a fun activity of mini-golf.  Now this sounds like fun, but last year I had a student get injured.  I know how does someone injure themselves mini-golfing.  Well it happened and I had to take her to ER and make that call to a parent saying "I am sorry to say that your child just got injured and we are in the hospital"  It all worked out ok, just a few stitches, but still STRESSFULL.

This year I asked my student to please don't fall down, instead have fun.  So mini-golfing is that working?  Well, if I was not at officer training I would not be doing it so I am counting it.  We got back from the activity at 11 p.m. and in bed by midnight.  So I will say I worked till 11 p.m.  That is a 14.5 hour work day during my so-called summer vacation.

Again I am not complaining.  I love working with students, but this is just my documentation of the hours I put into my profession.