week 6 and trip to Leroy County Ohio

schedule week 6

Week 6 is almost done.

I’m a little bit late with updating the blog, but we had busy days. No time for relaxing, even when Quantico classes were closed on tuesday (weather – code red). Here they are a little bit nervous about some snow flakes in D.C. – but it’s okay. Otherwise a lot of paperwork. I got my first results of examination and had to pass Midterm examinations. I appreciate the group discussions with my internationals. We are all teamplayers and work together. So we met in libray and prepared examination in small working groups. It worked, we all passed examinations successful with high level grades. So I feel fine. But there is still a lot to do. The time frames are close. We got a lot of additionally (mandatory) events. So I usually worked until 1am each morning on my own papers. Not a good deal for sleeping needs – but it’s the National Academy and I’ll stand it. That’s why my report will be a little bit shorter. Daily routines are quite the same. I changed a little bit „Blue Brick Challenge – went in for swimming at 11pm. It was nice to swim alone for myself. Only 4 miles left to complete. In classes we got another interesting lectures (Fort Hood shooting, Sandy hooks shooting, Fergueson).

analysis class - high efforts and standards

leadership-class

guest speaker from Florida with case study

officers in crisis class

psychology presentation for debriefing officers in crisis

pt-impressions

theoretical sports and nutrition science

Hongkong and Albania

EJ O'Malley my health and fitness instructor and me

my damaged swim-goggles after 30 miles - 4 left for Blue brick

On Wednesday I visited the German Embassy in Washington D.C. They will assist during International Night in week 7.

KD Christian Simon from BKA and me at German Embassy in Washington D.C.

Thank’s for support. During the weekend me and Ken from Grenada were invited to Ohio by my US-mate Shawn Parker. We left Quantico at Friday and took a 8 hour trip to Leroy Township. It was a really nice weekend. We spent time with Shawns family, stayed in his house, got self-made pancakes at morning. We received heartful hospitality by family Parker with their smart lovely boys. On Saturday afternoone we went to Cub-Scout and Boy-Scout meeting, visited his police department in Kirtland Hills, the lovely country-side with parks and got a interesting introduction at emergency center of Mentor. At least we did the remake of „Cool Runnings“. Look the funny video of wintersports with Grenada. Ken freezed but he did it. I knew Lake Erie only by the poem of „John Maynard“ before. On Sunday i took my first own steps on the frozen lake Erie –amazing. We went back to Quantico at Sunday afternoon and arrived at midnight. Thanks Shawn for the nice weekend.

Impressions from Ohio