Day One Complete.

What an exciting and interesting day. After concluding the first ever post, Jon and I ventured back out of the apartment to the office. There we met a few other trainees that had already started the program. A short 45 minutes later, and 4 other stops, we sat amongst the other 30 eager people ready to get things going.

The first lady from HR was very nice. Speaking like Harvey Fierstein, not on purpose, she made sure that everyone was taken care of as far as living situations. After everything was settled everyone received our badges and had to drive to the other side of the campus to our new classroom.

A man by the name of George introduced us to our first set of paperwork. Between his instructions he made sure that we knew about the local college football team, the Oklahoma "#1 team in the country" Sooners. George introduced us to several other people threw out the morning block: a lady from the credit union, the director of the program and our instructor, Mike Debb.

Mr. Debb took over for a while speaking about what he calls, "negative stuff". He said after tomorrow he won't have any more "negative stuff" to talk about because he just isn't a negative person. While speaking, several people stated that Mr. Debb had the speach patern of Christopher Walken. I didn't think he did as much but I can see where they could get that. Mr. Debb's final "negative stuff" was about being late. If you are late even one minute after the BB(be back) time, you can be issued a note to go into your file. Then he sent us on our first 10 minute break. We were told to be back at 1015. Everyone was sitting in our seats and waited for the class to start again. The instructors scanned the seats and noticed that one was empty. Some how, Mr. Jon Kroontje, was not in his seat. Mr. Debb lectured about the importance of being on time while George searched for Jon. Mistakingly, Jon had read the time wrong and thought it was lunch time. The break started one hour before the lunch break was supposed to start.

Next, two ladies came into to talk to us. For some reason, both of us don't have a clue about what they talked about. As they finished, we went to lunch. I had some good pork with potatoes and green beans. It was only $3.45 for that but the soft drink I got was something like $2.50. I don't think I'll be getting another one of those. The food was great. The price of soda, not so much...

After lunch, two guys were really late. They didn't get in trouble either but Jon didn't feel as bad. A woman then came in and made sure that our direct deposit information was right. She also talked to us about health insurance. We watched an old VHS tape, because the dvd wouldn't read. There was definitely a cameo by the actor who played Corky on "Live Goes On." All I could think was, Oh bly dee life goes on and this guy name Nick that worked at Nine's with me. Long story. As she left we had another 10 minute break. The break ended to the sexual harrasment lady. Why does the most attractive lady that I saw for the FAA have to teach this class? I think it's kind of funny actually. Family Guy came to mind when the barbershop quartet came in. Hilar!

Almost to the end, our final lady came in and chatted yet again about inappropriate behaviors. She was so funny though. I love it when people have a slight accent and say stuff like, "let me ack you this". It's supposed to be ask by the way. She whipped threw the second half of what we were supposed to do in about 13 minutes. It normally takes 45 minutes I guess.

Next, we took the shuttle back to the apartment. I think it was 1625 or so when we got back. Jon finally got the head lady in charge to come and get his Playstation 3 hooked up to the internet. Then we walked to the nearest store about 1.5 miles away. On the way there of course, we saw a Sonic drive in. Being as we had never eaten at one and they advertise in Seattle all the time, I had to walk the extra 300 yards to eat there. While eating, a friend of my dad's past called me. She lives in OKC. She asked what we were up to and I told her we were going grocery shopping and catching a cab back to our place. She said, "nonsense. Call me when you are about 15 minutes to being done. I'll take you back to your place." What an angel. I think it would have been hard to carry back $208 worth of groceries back to our place. Did I mention it was about 1.5 miles???

All in all, it has been a good day. I'm excited to finally have a job that I don't have to live off of people tips. We are in talks with my dad about possibly bringing my car down. It's just so far away to get anything. This weekend is a 3-day weekend and we are stuck here the whole time. Oh well, I mean, that's what we came here for. Thank you for taking your time in reading what could possibly be the longest thing I have ever written. Thank you for caring about us. Also, keep us in your thoughts. Lots of tough times ahead.

Jeff