Graduation

The Epicness of life continues. I am now an official, pager carrying, uniform wearing, fumbling probie Firefighter I. Yesterday's graduation was an exhilarating fusion of excitement, relief, enthusiasm, camaraderie, triumph and pride for each and every one of the small graduating class of 2013. I am still processing exactly what this means. For starters, I have my weekends back... at least until the First Responders course I will be taking in June... and the Water Rescue course with dates TBA. There is a lifetime of continuing education opening up before me, mostly free to me, one of the benefits of being a volunteer member of our Fire District: Hazmat training, Search and Rescue, rappelling, EMT classes, learning to drive the station's various emergency vehicles, Incident Command training. The list is endless, and there are going to be classes available that I haven't even thought of yet.

But for now, I will bask in the triumph of an intense 4 months of cramming my brain full of information, and training my body to respond without hesitation. Now the learning really begins.