ZZTopWereHere
Well Known Member
Hi everyone,
Yesterday it was day 1 of my DD course, due to last for another couple of Saturdays.
I will update this thread at least with a final review, but the first impression is quite good. The class is fairly large, with, IIRC, 14 attendees, and all people are quite nice and with a wide variety of ages, ethnic backgrounds and characters. The only area where diversity is not significant is gender, as there is only one woman in the whole class.
The instructors are friendly, a woman with a background working with alcohol and drug addicts and a man who worked in the hospitality business since he was 15.
The initial topics were pretty much what I expected: units calculation, the famous 1 unit per hour rule, statistics with an emphasis on "morning after" arrests (indeed, two attendees were caught the morning after), a quiz to be repeated at the end to see how we will have improved our knowledge, all the different sizes of glasses, bottles and cans, and a report on how much everyone drank last week. We are now expected to keep track of how much units we drink each day.
The good news is that there was no display of videos with accidents, the bad news is that I expected much more interaction. There were a few occasions when we were invited to talk to our neighbour and we were allowed to ask questions, but it was much more of a "1-to-many" delivery than an interactive experience. Maybe the next couple of Saturdays will be a bit better in this regards.
Overall, anyway, I'm happy with this course, beyond the mere fact that it will reduce my disqualification.
Best regards,
Z
Yesterday it was day 1 of my DD course, due to last for another couple of Saturdays.
I will update this thread at least with a final review, but the first impression is quite good. The class is fairly large, with, IIRC, 14 attendees, and all people are quite nice and with a wide variety of ages, ethnic backgrounds and characters. The only area where diversity is not significant is gender, as there is only one woman in the whole class.
The instructors are friendly, a woman with a background working with alcohol and drug addicts and a man who worked in the hospitality business since he was 15.
The initial topics were pretty much what I expected: units calculation, the famous 1 unit per hour rule, statistics with an emphasis on "morning after" arrests (indeed, two attendees were caught the morning after), a quiz to be repeated at the end to see how we will have improved our knowledge, all the different sizes of glasses, bottles and cans, and a report on how much everyone drank last week. We are now expected to keep track of how much units we drink each day.
The good news is that there was no display of videos with accidents, the bad news is that I expected much more interaction. There were a few occasions when we were invited to talk to our neighbour and we were allowed to ask questions, but it was much more of a "1-to-many" delivery than an interactive experience. Maybe the next couple of Saturdays will be a bit better in this regards.
Overall, anyway, I'm happy with this course, beyond the mere fact that it will reduce my disqualification.
Best regards,
Z