Time for another blog post, sorry it’s a bit late. I thought
the other week was busy, not compared to last week!
Even though it was a busy week I have to say I had one of my
top 5 experiences so far in my apprenticeship; visiting Aston Fire Station!
Last week was full of different things again. As it was Pancake
Day Craig and I made a Vine of someone flipping a pancake to promote safety for
#watchwhatyouheat.
On Wednesday we were at The Juice Academy again, where
we learnt a lot about presenting and presentations. This was a really good
experience as we looked into who was a good public speaker; which was really insightful
into how people present. I never knew that public speakers (for example, Barak
Obama) practised even their hand gestures down to a T!
Then it was Thursday, the first ever #SMAday. It was
exciting and scary at first but once I had gotten into the hang of Tweeting and
spoke to everyone on white watch I felt a lot more comfortable. What I mean by
gotten into the hang of Tweeting is that I got the chance to Tweet about
#SMAday from the WMFS Twitter
account. (I think this is what scared me the most!) But I was quite excited
when people actually started RTing (Re Tweeting) and favouriting the Tweets I
had been doing. I even got some engagement out of the followers!
I stayed at Aston Fire Station with White Watch for the
whole day. I watched them check their equipment, do their training, do (boring)
admin work and then I went with a few of the watch members to some high rise
flats. Here they did their checks to find out about the flat. (As they had
inherited it from another fire stations patch). They checked things like: where
best to get their water from to how many rooms are on each floor. This is so
they are as prepared as the can be when dealing with a fire there (if ever one
arises).
Like I said, for me, this was an amazing experience. I have
never seen what happens in a Fire Station before and this was a great insight.
I’d also like to thank White Watch at Aston Fire Station for being so friendly
and looking after me!
