I feel like House

Even though i've been learning the first responder course for a week, I've learned A LOT.  Mostly symptoms and dangers of certain respiratory/cardiac distresses or diseases, but it's really neat.

We worked on scenarious, where our "madrich", or instructor, would bring in 2 people to the room and give them a scenario.  What is happening, what do you see, and that's pretty much about it, and we have to decide what is wrong, and what to do, what questions to ask, and how to treat them.  So, while watching, or if being the one in the scenario, I feel like Dr. House, and trying to figure out what is wrong with what you see.

I can't wait till I take the EMT- Basic course next semester at Syracuse because I will learn even more knowledge for more complicated/random cases. 


For the first time in a week we had a short day!  It was only 5 hours, not bad.  We had a midterm/exam to test how well we are doing and then after learned about burns, and then backboarding.  Then we had time off.

Time to actually go to the Jerusalem that I wanted to see!  We took a cab to the Old City then walked to the Western wall. When we got there I realized that I went to the Western Wall EXACTLY a year ago, and I wore the exact same shirt.  That was some freaky stuff, loved it though.  Then we just walked up and down the markets, until we stumbled upon an outdoor free summer concert full of Israeli's ages from around 18-22.  It was AWESOME, I wish we had more than 10 minutes to hang out there, but it was packed with around 500 Israelis.  They have these outdoor concerts every friday until august, so I will definitely be trying to come back sometime in the next 5 weeks.


The best thing about of madrich, besides the fact that he is so Israeli and is hilarious, is the stories he has being a driver for the past 16 years.  Every situation/disease that he teaches us, he has a story.  Some are funny ones, but others are serious, such as a terrorist attack.  He spoke about once walking by a cafe when a bomb went off and he had to treat seriously wounded/bleeding patients with his bare hands.  These remind you of what COULD happen, but probably, and hopefully, will not. 

I will be putting pictures up next week when I arrived in Tel Aviv because the internet will hopefully be better, but until then...

YALLA BYE.

On a side note, a fantastic actor passed away last night named named Peter Falk.  He acted in the TV show "Columbo", a show my parents and grandam would watch religiously on Friday nights on the classic TV channel.  He was a role model to me, and really sparked my interest in acting.  My parents even secretely sent my Bar Mitzvah invitation to him without me know, he declined but it was still cool to get a response.  He was 83.