Setting up

So here we are, the day before another prac course in Manchester.

Certificates – done

Projector checked – done

throat spray – checked!

Any friz spray for hair due to air conditioning – done

Handouts – done

Pre course exams – marked

Pre course nerves hoping that everyone will enjoy it – engaged

Pictures of wombles and Jean Luke Picard inserted in powerpoint – made it so

Rolled up newspapers for students to batter eachother with – cellotaped

Well – looks like we are ready to rock and roll. Its the usual scenario of wondering what everyone will be like. You think you are the only ones? You wonder about how people will use the course, enjoy like I did when Bruce Farrow taught me, open doors for people, create new beginnings and just hope that these people will get out of it what I did.

So the daunting task of setting up the room starts today, the carpet tape, the endless calls to staff to help with chairs, the deciding what to leave in case it is pinched by someone night staff (which has happened before) and the wondering if when you come in the next morning, your entire equipment and room arrangement has been packed up by the night porter thinking he is “tidying” after hours of preperation – see Belfast Holiday Inn Express for that one.

Apparently I’m not the only trainer that has happened to and I hope that the others reacted slightly better than I did!

So, adrenaline at the ready and here we go!