Day 7 and Some Good News

For a while now (like a few years) I have been worried about my memory. Granted it was all started by a book I read about Alzheimer's and memory loss and how the only marker that Alzheimer's is onset is that one sometimes forgets things but is otherwise fine. But I have good news. I have a better memory than I thought. I am keeping up with the class of over 50 students and maybe even slightly above average - and I'm older than a bunch of them.

There is so much to memorize and absorb that I fear at any moment the memory card is going to get full and that will be it. I will end up with half my wings. sigh. You can't fly with one wing.

The days are a blur of furious note taking and following all the restrictions and then going back to the hotel to memorize all the notes and prepare to do it all over again the next day.

So far 3 people have left ground school: one person got below a 70% on the first written test and was sent home. The next person was more than 5 minutes late to class one morning because she got lost. The third left today. She was an EMT from Philly who was bright and led a lot of the study groups. Last night she didn't sleep AT ALL and had to stand up in the back of class to stay awake. When she found out that we were staying late in class to go over emergency equipment she told the instructor that she couldn't physically stay awake that long. He then said she could leave the program - which she decided to do. She was immediately put up in a different hotel and booked a flight home tomorrow.

I have to remember all this for when i write the script to my reality show on ground school.