My third week !!

This week was awesome. I can honestly say I love my co op I go there and I feel like I am at home. Cindy is such an inpirational figure and she always encourages me to do better, she never yells and she is very patient.Here I am so comfortable , this is my second home. Also the relatioships I have developed with the police officers is incredible. I was a little intimidated before but now they are like family, Bruce is a Constable but he is like a father figure, he and I will always talk to me and he will tell me about his encounters or give me awesome advice on being a teenager in todays society.Jodi and Laurel are the jokesters of them all, they are always teasing Cindy and I and always talking about encounters over the past which is really cool. Brenda was are acting sargeant but that is not in place anymore due to the fact that she has to start teaching her DARE classes, we are still waiting for a sargeant to obtain this position. Brenda is awesome she is like a mom, she is always giving me advice and when I threw my back out from my fall at home she was telling me what I should do and helping me , along with Cindy with any lifting that had to be done. And last but not least Drew and Pam , they are really shy and quiet , but when I do have the chance to talk to them they are really nice and I see alot of me in them, personality wise. It is so wierd I have been here for only a short period of time but I feel like I have been doing this my whole life and I cannot wait to be living out my dream and actually working as a police officer.

On the other hand this week was a little crazy , I was getting the bigger classes. It was a little harder for me. I usually tend to get the smaller classes which have a head count of about twenty to thirty children. This week I had between forty to fifty children which at times was a little difficult but I did get the hang of it. What made it alot easier was that Cindy reassured me that I could do it and that it would be no different then any other class. And I did do it. I was really proud of myself, but honestly it was with a little encouragement that I did what I was suppose to and I cannot thank Cindy enough. Over these past few weeks I have become a more independent individual ... I feel that I can do anything and this drive to become the indivdual I want to be in the near future is so cool...which come to think of it , it is only a few years away and I cannot wait I am so excited to become a police officer!!

p.s/ come to think of it I actually miss being at my co op and I cannot wait for march break to be over and done with !

have a good march break Mr Grace!

officer alav aka annmarie