Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy

Thursday and Friday of this past week I went down to Colombus Ohio and spent two days at the Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy(OSHPA) and lived a day and a life of a cadet who would attend the academy with a some of my Criminal Justice Class. When we first arrived we got off the bus left our stuff and went in sat down and waited for our instructor Mrs. Bodkin to get everything started and get our rooms assigned to us. After that we took a tour of the whole academy which was cool one of the places we stopped was the gym were they were doing some self-Defense which was cool to watch a lot diffrent from what I learned. We got to go pass the shooting range weren't aloud to go in yet. later We went to lunch. After lunch we went to a few classes about core values military drill and what not. Then we went down stairs and went on the Driving simulator very cool exactly resembles inside of a police crusior. I didn't do to well but thats alright it made me dizzy didn't care for it much but it was fun. After that we went and got our stuff off the bus and took them to our rooms. Then we had time to sit around before we had to go to dinner. After dinner we went to a few more classes don't remember what about then we were able to chill for a few hours then we watched the movie Remember the Titians after the movie we had about an hour before lights out which was 10. I took that time got my class uniform set up and then as a class we went to the lounge and talked about the day then it was lights out so we all went to bed.

The Next Morning

We all woke up at 5:15 and had to be at the gym 10 to six because that what time P.T. started We made there with plenty of time to stretch we got there and we started P.T. with Trooper Englund, Staff Lieutenant. Allen and a guy That didn't give his name. It wasn't to bad but I survived I was the strongest out of my class I survived the whole thing with out having to stop but the rest of my class did but thats ok I rooted for them to jump back in but any way after P.T. we had 20 minuets to take a shower and be down stairs and be ready for breakfast at 7 Some of the girls were to slow and we didnt make it on time but thats ok we still got to have breakfast. After breakfast we sat through three classes. One on uniforms and how important it is to keep it Neat another on what we will do if we come to the academy and the last one was about tazers. After that we got to watch a tazar demonstration which was very cool I must say. After that it was time for the OSHP Police memorial. It was humbling and sad. But it was nice to be involved and able to be a part of. After the cermony we grabbed our bags and got on the bus and headed home. I was offically home a litte after 6 probably like 6:05 p.m. Well those were my two at the OSHPA. Thanks for reading and
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