Fire Safety

I loved Fire Safety day that we had on Friday. In the morning we got to learn how to use a fire extinguisher and practice on a propane fire, which wasn't too difficult, but it was so much fun. 

Then came the real test in the afternoon. After lunch we had a fire safety demonstration. This included building staff to be blindfolded and led by the RD to some place on campus and seated in a dorm room with the door closed. In the room we talked, played games and just hung out until the fire alarms went off. We opened the door to leave the building and we couldn't even see the wall of the hallway, because there was so much smoke. We heard people yelling and talking and so we got on our hands and knees and started crawling towards the staircase that we came up, as we back tracked. We got to the door and it was blocked. So we turned around and headed back to where we had came from and had heard from down the line that the stairwell at the other end of the hall was unlocked. We crawled to the stairwell and it was open so we got into the stairwell, stood up and evacuated the building. It took up at most a minute to get out. 

Now this was all just a drill and practice. The fire department was there pumping in the smoke and security had locked and blocked certain exits and doorways to make it somewhat of a challenge, but honestly it was hardly a challenge at all. The first group got out in 25 seconds where as last year it took about 10 minutes before the first group got out. I really liked this simulation and helped me better understand why we have certain policies and rules for in the dorms regarding fire safety. I would do that again in a heartbeat.

Later that night we had "fundatory"- mandatory fun, games, team builders. For fundatory this night we played campus wide sardines.For those of you who do not know the game, sardines is a mix of hide and go seek and tag. A person hides and then everyone is released to go and find them. Once you have found the person you then hide with them, trying your best to not give away the hiding spot. The game is over once the last group has found everyone in the hiding spot. For our first round, the partners picked one of the staff houses and hid on the porch. We all couldn't stop laughing as everyone started crawling and piling up on the porch. Try fitting around 50 people onto a porch! Lets just say we got really cozy and got to know each other a little better. 

After sardines a group of us went to play volleyball for fun on our new sand volleyball courts. All the school needs is a pond right next to the sand and you will feel like you're right on the beach. The sand is so soft and feels amazing on your feet. Practically every night so far sand volleyball has been the place to be.