Hey everyone, I'm back. I count it as three days having not blogged, but I'm back with all my enthusiasm restored and fully looking forward to bashing this out. The last few days have been hectic. This week has been our Instructor Assessment, which I think I mentioned on Tuesday possibly? Anyway it's involved learning how to teach to the RYA method and it's been quite fun. Much more serious than the rest of the course has been and under continual assessment, but good. On the whole I feel like I've done quite well, my presentation went fairly well, though with all of our presentations they've pretty much commented on all of ours by showing us a much better version of it. Ah well, they're Coaches, we're not even Instructors yet... YET.
Tomorrow may change all that. By the end of tomorrow we will know whether we are Dinghy Instructors or whether we have been action-planned. Doesn't sound so bad as having to walk the plank, and for good reason too - it isn't. It basically means you just have to do one thing and then you're a dinghy instructor. So you get given an action that you need to complete another time (for instance, do a presentation on such and such, or do a tacking land drill) and once you've done that action satisfactorily then they'll tick that off and you'll have passed. So in a sense you can't really fail (that's how they put it to us anyhow). Obviously I'm hoping I won't be action planned but I'm kind of expecting it.
I spent an hour after our day ended today going over the land drills and how to reef a double hander (we all found out today that we'd been shown the wrong method when I tried to do a mock session on how to reef and they shot it down - admittedly I knew it had gone badly) so that I've got it in my head. I probably should be revising now... I will do after I've done this...
We've had homework, was what I meant to say when I started talking about the Instructor Assessment Week, that's made time short to get out to Cell on Wednesday and to Catlayst on Friday, but I've managed both. It's been a great week, learning and practising how to actually teach. We've had to make our own session plans and lead sessions for each other, all with debriefs afterwards and we've learned lots of tips on teaching.
On a sadder note, I found out yesterday at about 7 o'clock that it was Comic Relief... I still can't believe that I missed it. So annoyed. I wanted to wear a red nose whilst I was sailing. Ah well, there's always next time.
What else has been going on... not that much. We've just been continuing to improve and tomorrow on the moderation (the coaches swap round to moderate each other) everything will come to a head. I could have kept this quiet and then I could swallow it quietly if I get action-planned until I've passed. I've taken the risk of telling everyone (well everyone who reads this anyway) so now I have to tell you which way their decision falls tomorrow. (If there is pretty much no wind, as there has been for the last 2 or so days then we'll be doing land based stuff, which is fairly easy :D :D :D :D :D)
So yep, that is all I can think of to say. Sorry for those of you who wanted a blog everyday. I shall try to not miss another day, but we'll see how it goes. I'm off to Egypt on the 3rd of April I think so two weeks away. As regards to the blog when I'm out there... we'll see. I'll probably be paying for an Internet cafe out there as my phone Internet won't be free and I doubt there;ll be a conveniently free Internet cafe anywhere. Just to give you the heads up on that.
Now bring on tomorrow!!
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