Day 3

For the most part, today has not been full of events to blog about. From 7 AM until about 4 PM we have been in various training classes. Completely necessary for us and we get our official TCO badges at the end, but it’s quite repetitive from all of my many years of safety orientation and training that we have all been through.

However, after all of our many hours of trying to understand what our instructors were saying (the poor things didn’t speak the best English in the world, but they tried their best to keep us engaged), I decided it was about time that I finally worked out! In the weeks leading up to departing, I was unable to work out even a little bit, so I knew that I needed to get back on track in the worst way. What I learned is that each Dome has its own gym which is nice because that means I don’t have to venture out into the mosquito infested hot air in order to go work out!

I was able to find the gym in my Dome relatively easily as it is very close to my room. As I walked in I surveyed the gym to see what it had to offer: Cardio equipment? Check. Free weights? Check. Dumbells? Check. Dip Bar? Check. Pull-up bar? Check. Well you’re beginning to get the picture at this point. Needless to say, they have pretty much all of the basics that I need to get a good work out. Unfortunately they don’t have any classes so I will have to wait until I get back to El Segundo to experience some good spin (Carrie), RIPPED (Rachel), or yoga (Michelle). See girls…it’s not easy to replace you!

As I’m finishing a very shoddy work out of chest, back and legs, I come across some interesting Soviet style instruction diagrams. I’ll let you all be the judge, but I’m tempted to make some photo copies and bring a few back to the states. I think they would be good motivational posters for the gym…especially the gym-wear that this guy is sporting! (By the way, there are a ton more of these, include a few riske ones!)