Workshop day 3, and my honest opinion – January 12th 2012

Slept again tonight, but still many wakeups. It’s pouring rain here in New York. Since there are fightings about the restroom every morning, I got up a little over 6. So I could get a shower. Which I actually have found very nice and refreshing

Breakfast was a total disaster. There were put 3 giant trays on the table. One with bagels, another with blueberry muffins and a third with croissants. And I thought, well great – choices. And then the happiness were gone. Some little bossy kitchen-woman tells us that we only can take one thing and just ONE. And that we wasn’t allowed to take more.  In the middle of the confussion a took a croissant and a hot chocolate.

Generally the food is not the best. We can only take once. We never get full of it and I’m actually unsatisfied with the workshop.

Our rooms are cold and not nice. The windows are not sealed, some og the rooms (not mine, there are just a hole and they can stick a hand outside.) The outer panels and the curtain rod is about to fall off.

There are always something wrong in the rest rooms.

First day, I washed my hands and got wet feet. I thought it was quit strange. But the pipe which makes sure the water gets to the sewer wasn’t put on properly.

Second day, yesterday: When I went to shower, there hardly came any water out, and the water which came out where just running down the wall. And when you flushed the toilet, the water went basically everywhere else than in the toilet. So disgusting.

Today I was almost burned by the water in the shower, so I was pretty pissed off. I also lost my shampoo, so I only have the conditioner left.

It’s fine we sleeps in bunks, I don’t mind. But every time we move just the slightest, then it squeaks, creaks and roars, so both me and my rommie wakes up.

The actual workshop is total waste of time. We don’t get anything out of it and either won’t the families.

We go through the most logic and simple things, how to hold a baby, changing a diaper etc. Abbey our teacher is really really nice, but I don’t feel that I’m getting any useful. Liza just talks and talks and jumps around, Celia is sweet but she just seems so uncommitted.

I know that people comes with different kinds of experiences. But maybe they should have splitted us up. So us who are infant care qualified could spend more time learning about the more phsykological part and learning new activities. Instead of “learning” how to hold a child.

At the same time I really don’t understand how some of these girl got accepted into the program. They don’t understand anything, and doesn’t even know what Toilet means. It’s completely waste of time for me to listen to those kind of questions.  I know people are here to learn, but they have to know just a lttle English.

At the same time I feel really sorry for the families. They are paying for our workshop, room and boarder, They can’t be satisfied with the “educational” and the room and boarder. On top of all this comes that I have to sit in the airport for 6-7 hours before I can go to take my plane, which take 4½ hour. I asked them why I had to go that early. And it’s simply because they are saving money. The only girls who can stay until a “proper” time is the girls going via Newark. They are picked up by the supershuttle. They just get a pre-paid voucher and get picked up when they want. Så they actually don’t think of our “well-being” if you may, and actually don’t care how long we are going to wait in the airport.

Well I have meet some wonderful people. And I hope I’m able to keep in touch with them, defiantly: Mette, Kristim, Rebekka and Lisa from Germany. Really nice people. We don’t live in the same area, but then I have one more excuse to travel :)

Well today we have had a little about child abuse and is having  our “exam”. It is said to be extremely easy. And if you have written down what the teacher told you to write down, you already got the answers. After our exam Heidi a CC comes to tell us about the program and rules.

Tonight I, Mette and some of the girls are going to Times Square. I haven’t been there yet, even though I have been in the city for a few days. So hopefully it’s going to be good, let’s just hope, that the rain have stopped.

In 24 hours I’m in a plane on my way to my new family. I really look forward to see my family and get some proper food :)