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saffiter... Polish Fire Drills.
Seriously, I do. Not only do I get out of class for 20 minutes to 30 minutes (and that's always a good thing when you've got a class you despise), but when they decide to have a fire drill, they decide to have a fire drill!
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I got into work today at about 3:15pm (I start at 3:30 and just couldn't be arsed leaving home 'cause it was cold, wet and windy). Lucja was already there and I didn't even have time to get my jacket off before she was going "Sheena, your students must have their jackets on the back of their chairs today. There will be a fire drill at around 4"
Me: Okay *thinking SWEET!! It's with F group. I hate F group.
So, I wander into the classroom and tell them to put their jackets on the back of their chairs 'cause there was going to be a fire drill.. they managed to work out what I wanted them to do and why between them.
I was thinking the fire drill was going to be like the ones I had back home in Australia when I was at school... nope, not even close!
Anyway, I'm teaching the class and the kids wanted me to take them outside before the alarm actually went off (which kinda defeats the purpose of the fire drill, really, but there you have it). I had to keep going "NO! We have to wait until we hear *taps her ear* the alarm".
I was so glad when that alarm went off. I was just about ready to strangle some of those kids.
So, alarm goes off and I manage to hear it before the kids do o.O (which is scary 'cause I was up the front of the classroom right next to the CD player and it was turned right up).
*ALARM*
Me: Okay, people. Let's go. Get your jackets and line up at the door.
*students chatter excitedly and take their sweet time doing their jackets up*
Me:*shoving students out the door with their jackets half on* Talk and zip people, we have to move!. Do you want to burn to death?
....surprisingly they got that I wanted them to do their jackets up while they were walking down the hall.
We get down to the entryway and there's what looks like smoke billowing down another hallway! Thankfully I've been in enough theatre/dance productions to know what a smoke machine smells like.
Outside is cold, windy and slightly wet but we were being shooed towards the basketball courts off to the side of the building. Cue people diving out the ground floor windows in front of us. They hadn't told the student residents that there was going to be a drill (Lektor hires two classrooms and an office off one of the local public boarding schools) so I'd say they'd opened their doors, saw the smoke and thought 'Nuh-uh... not going that way.... window!!!' and promptly dove out the nearest window.
It was quite fun to watch people leaping out of windows like that and it certainly kept the kids entertained.
THEN The fire engine comes haring down the road and skids into the carpark (cue more people diving out of windows). Firefighters get out and do their thing and then another fire engine comes screaming in. This one nearly took out students as it drives across the court and to the opposite side of the building.
Aparently there were students stuck on a second floor balcony. The other fire engine was to help get the kids/students/teenagers/whatever down from there (note: I was looking at the balcony and rolling my eyes at the kids. They could've jumped it easily... well, maybe they couldn't, but I would've jumped it). Out comes the ladder and I got to watch the fire fighters help the students down the ladder to the ground (I swear the fire fighter on the ladder was copping a feel of the girls butt as she came down. That's what it looked like, anyway).
Unfortunately Lucja decided it was time for us to go back into the classrooms *sigh I could've quite happily stayed out there for the rest of the lesson.
So, I love Polish Fire drills.
My final thoughts on the matter: Thank god it wasn't snowing!
My Dragons (in various stages of growth)
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Aishaya}} {{
Timid Wanderer}}
Seriously, I do. Not only do I get out of class for 20 minutes to 30 minutes (and that's always a good thing when you've got a class you despise), but when they decide to have a fire drill, they decide to have a fire drill!
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I got into work today at about 3:15pm (I start at 3:30 and just couldn't be arsed leaving home 'cause it was cold, wet and windy). Lucja was already there and I didn't even have time to get my jacket off before she was going "Sheena, your students must have their jackets on the back of their chairs today. There will be a fire drill at around 4"
Me: Okay *thinking SWEET!! It's with F group. I hate F group.
So, I wander into the classroom and tell them to put their jackets on the back of their chairs 'cause there was going to be a fire drill.. they managed to work out what I wanted them to do and why between them.
I was thinking the fire drill was going to be like the ones I had back home in Australia when I was at school... nope, not even close!
Anyway, I'm teaching the class and the kids wanted me to take them outside before the alarm actually went off (which kinda defeats the purpose of the fire drill, really, but there you have it). I had to keep going "NO! We have to wait until we hear *taps her ear* the alarm".
I was so glad when that alarm went off. I was just about ready to strangle some of those kids.
So, alarm goes off and I manage to hear it before the kids do o.O (which is scary 'cause I was up the front of the classroom right next to the CD player and it was turned right up).
*ALARM*
Me: Okay, people. Let's go. Get your jackets and line up at the door.
*students chatter excitedly and take their sweet time doing their jackets up*
Me:*shoving students out the door with their jackets half on* Talk and zip people, we have to move!. Do you want to burn to death?
....surprisingly they got that I wanted them to do their jackets up while they were walking down the hall.
We get down to the entryway and there's what looks like smoke billowing down another hallway! Thankfully I've been in enough theatre/dance productions to know what a smoke machine smells like.
Outside is cold, windy and slightly wet but we were being shooed towards the basketball courts off to the side of the building. Cue people diving out the ground floor windows in front of us. They hadn't told the student residents that there was going to be a drill (Lektor hires two classrooms and an office off one of the local public boarding schools) so I'd say they'd opened their doors, saw the smoke and thought 'Nuh-uh... not going that way.... window!!!' and promptly dove out the nearest window.
It was quite fun to watch people leaping out of windows like that and it certainly kept the kids entertained.
THEN The fire engine comes haring down the road and skids into the carpark (cue more people diving out of windows). Firefighters get out and do their thing and then another fire engine comes screaming in. This one nearly took out students as it drives across the court and to the opposite side of the building.
Aparently there were students stuck on a second floor balcony. The other fire engine was to help get the kids/students/teenagers/whatever down from there (note: I was looking at the balcony and rolling my eyes at the kids. They could've jumped it easily... well, maybe they couldn't, but I would've jumped it). Out comes the ladder and I got to watch the fire fighters help the students down the ladder to the ground (I swear the fire fighter on the ladder was copping a feel of the girls butt as she came down. That's what it looked like, anyway).
Unfortunately Lucja decided it was time for us to go back into the classrooms *sigh I could've quite happily stayed out there for the rest of the lesson.
So, I love Polish Fire drills.
My final thoughts on the matter: Thank god it wasn't snowing!
My Dragons (in various stages of growth)
{{
Aishaya}} {{ Timid Wanderer}}
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Date: 2008-10-22 08:52 pm (UTC)Ok, that'd be interesting to watch.
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Date: 2008-10-24 12:02 am (UTC)ROTFLOL!!! This sounds like a scene from a Ben Stiller movie! :D
Never a dull moment in Poland...XD
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Date: 2008-10-24 12:06 am (UTC)Poland is defninately not boring. Seriously, you wouldn't read about this sort of stuff *laughs*. As you said, it sounds more like a movie than an actual real life event.
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Date: 2008-10-24 03:38 am (UTC)*nods and laughs* And that's why I'm so glad that you blog about things like this! I think it's so interesting to see how other societies deal with everyday stuff.
Today's lesson: Polish fire drills are organized chaos...and very 'hands on', in the case of the one firefighter...^__^;;;
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Date: 2008-10-25 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-28 03:26 pm (UTC)