Police Academy: Weeks 9 & 10
Week 9:
Monday morning at 3:00 AM I was out of bed getting ready for work. We had to be there by 4:00 AM for NEVO (Non-Emergency Vehicle Operation). Part of the course required us to drive at night, so instead of staying late they let us come in early. This was great considering that we got to go home at noon. That night, Michelle and I rode our bikes into downtown Kennesaw to watch the fireworks. It was a lot of fun. The fourth was spent relaxing, and the rest of the week was pretty boring.
Week 10:
This week was spent mostly in the classroom. We learned about investigating, interviewing, interrogating, interpersonal communications, and terrorism. On Thursday when we were doing interpersonal communications, part of the lesson plan was to have us play some games. Half of the class played Uno and the other half played Aggravation. We had a great time playing games, and we were able to apply what we had learned about communicating as well.
Friday was our second physical fitness test. It was just a test to see how far we've come since the beginning. The day started with a mile and a half run while it was still "cool" out. Most of us were sweating before we even started to run. I finished with a time of 11 minutes and 30 seconds. I dropped two minutes off my previous time. We then did bench pressing (I added 30 pounds to my previous weight) and leg pressing (I improved, but I don't know what the weight was). After that was the step test, where you step up and down off of a platform for one minute. I had highest score last time of 81 and continued to reign as champion with an improved score of 85. All that was left for the test were sit-ups, where I improved as well. All 12 of us had improved over our first test, and most of the improvements were major.
While we were cooling off in the classroom after the test, the academy lieutenant came in to talk to us. She's normally a pretty serious person, but she walked in with a huge smile on her face. She told us that she had just seen our scores and that she was "so excited and giddy." She told us several times how proud she was of all of us for our improvements. She also let us know that if we keep it up that we will be the best class that they've seen so far. Needless to say, we were all pretty excited to hear praise from the academy staff.
Before we broke for lunch I had to move a couple of computers around for the staff. They've been rearranging the offices this week, and none of them knew how to move the computers so I was assigned the task.
We all went out to lunch to celebrate Spiker's 45th birthday, and finished off the day with a class on terrorism.