First aid & bitching about the weather
Nov. 10th, 2011 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bee_yorkI've always wanted to learn first aid, CPR and all that stuff, but I gotta start with the basics, like the Heimlich maneuver. I took a baby-sitting course when I was 12 where we learned some of that stuff, but that might as well have been a different lifetime. I don't remember a thing. I couldn't even tell you what the first step of the Heimlich is. Well, I know you go BEHIND the person. But after that, I'm clueless. Do you squeeze their ribs? Their stomach? I can't remember. And I know it's different with children, and different AGAIN with babies, in some way.
Anyway, yeah...that's how clueless I am. So when I say I need a basic first aid course, I most certainly do mean BASIC. XD
I'm asking around on Facebook and even on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
montreal in hopes that someone can offer me a personal recommendation for a class, as opposed to just googling a random website for a random course in some random part of the city. I live downtown, so there has GOT to be something very central around here that I can walk to. A friend pointed me to a course in St-Laurent, which is insanely far away. (For non-Montrealers reading this, that's about an hour away by metro AND bus...there's no direct way of getting there from downtown, really.) I found a website for a course in TMR, which is still pretty darn far. There's GOT to be something around here...
It's such a drab rainy day today. I still gotta force myself to go on at least one walk today, whether I like it or not, if not two. Blaaaah. One of the great things about Montreal is that you can totally go for really long walks underground and never have to go outside, and still get a good workout that way. But I don't want to do that just yet. It's too early in the year for that now. I'm gonna have to be doing that all winter long, so I might as well go outside. The rain isn't too bad, and my hair's already wet anyway (just washed it, lol) so it's not like it will really make a difference anyway.
Blah, winter. I don't want it to come. 30 years of living in this city, and I don't think I can take it anymore. Last winter was exceptionally long, it was really abnormally long, even for Montreal. I genuinely can't remember the last time we had a winter like last year's. It started so early and snowed SO DAMN MUCH. I can't deal with the thought of winter coming back already. It's really like a certain version of hell. I don't want it, I really, really, really, really don't want it....
Anyway, yeah...that's how clueless I am. So when I say I need a basic first aid course, I most certainly do mean BASIC. XD
I'm asking around on Facebook and even on
montreal in hopes that someone can offer me a personal recommendation for a class, as opposed to just googling a random website for a random course in some random part of the city. I live downtown, so there has GOT to be something very central around here that I can walk to. A friend pointed me to a course in St-Laurent, which is insanely far away. (For non-Montrealers reading this, that's about an hour away by metro AND bus...there's no direct way of getting there from downtown, really.) I found a website for a course in TMR, which is still pretty darn far. There's GOT to be something around here...It's such a drab rainy day today. I still gotta force myself to go on at least one walk today, whether I like it or not, if not two. Blaaaah. One of the great things about Montreal is that you can totally go for really long walks underground and never have to go outside, and still get a good workout that way. But I don't want to do that just yet. It's too early in the year for that now. I'm gonna have to be doing that all winter long, so I might as well go outside. The rain isn't too bad, and my hair's already wet anyway (just washed it, lol) so it's not like it will really make a difference anyway.
Blah, winter. I don't want it to come. 30 years of living in this city, and I don't think I can take it anymore. Last winter was exceptionally long, it was really abnormally long, even for Montreal. I genuinely can't remember the last time we had a winter like last year's. It started so early and snowed SO DAMN MUCH. I can't deal with the thought of winter coming back already. It's really like a certain version of hell. I don't want it, I really, really, really, really don't want it....
