Five Hours in the Training Room. 2 December 2016

I am not exactly complaining, but 5 hours in the Training room is a bit much.  Still, I had an opportunity to go to the German-Slavic desk, but the trainee at present tends to need some guidance at times, so I did not leave. I was the only regular trainer available during the day, which was a little unusual. The assistant zone leader was there, but she has lots of other responsibilities, so she is in her own office, not the Training room.  I was glad to get asked about where to find a PowerPoint presentation by someone who is going on to Level 2, since I knew we had moved that to Level 1.

In addition, I was able to get assignments prepared for a couple of in-service lessons, refine and polish one in-service presentation, and get another one well on its way to completion.  I also prepared an extra presentation using Wiki articles on how to use the FamilySearch catalog.  I learned about Creative Commons license regulations, so I know I am OK copying from the Wiki as long as I give the Wiki credit, which is easy enough to do.  But most of it I reworked with my own examples, etc.

Today was my in-service double duty day, also.  Usually Friday mornings everyone has seen the lesson, but today there were two who had not due to the snow early in the week, and several who wanted to see it again.  In the afternoon there are always several who need to see it, and today was no exception.

One of the hazards of being in the Training room is its proximity to the break room where food is often available.  Today there were five kinds of cake, to celebrate one Young Elder's birthday, a temptation I only partly resisted [I had small pieces of three of them].  I would have felt better about it had I just not had any, but that did not happen.  I also had a small French sweet bread, brought by the French sister who will be leaving in January.

This evening I have been working on getting titles in place for Ortssippenbuch memories, and deleting those pictures from my iPad.  I do have a system that seems to be working OK, but it is slow going, and there are quite a few left to do.