After Mada’s 10 day intensive training program, I passed my written and practical exams! I am now a qualified first responder. I will be joining a driver, who is a licensed medic, and one other first responder on an ambulance.
There are two shifts: 7am-3pm and 11pm-7am. Hopefully they wont make me work night shifts because I hear they really mess up sleeping habits. During the hours I am at work, I wait at the station until we get a call. Certain drivers are assigned to certain calls and certain first responders assigned to certain drivers. If I get on good term with the drivers, then they will trust me more and let me do cool things like administer IVs. I need to learn all the medical terms in Hebrew so the medics will know I am serious. I better go study!
My first shift is tomorrow and I am excited and nervous. I kind of hope I don’t get any calls just so I can ease into my new work. But how cool would it be if on my first day I got a really serious call?
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Dear Nina,
We have all been thrilled, amazed, and overjoyed by the new world(s) you are seeing, feeling, living in. From Uganda to MDA, now there is a journey of many hearts and feelings we bet!
Hope the visit with your family is also overwhelming for them too!
Your Berkeley "family" loves and misses you.
Be well,
Lorraine, Amy, Beth, Sadie, Sammy and Stephen
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