Excruciating

I attended Red Cross first aid training tonight. Oh holy hell. It is excruciating. And it is always excruciating. Seriously. It was too long and I swear the things that they have us practice are so useless. Plus, the videos are so bad and the instructors weren't that great either. (The worst part... I gave them a good review. Why? I'm a volunteer and they were volunteers and they seemed nice enough even though they were not good trainers. I don't think it was necessarily their fault they weren't good. I think it was mostly the method that the Red Cross makes them train.) I sat there writing "Killing me..." over and over in my workbook. Seriously, the class was sapping my will to live. Tomorrow is CPR and I anticipate it also being icky. The videos rarely change. The knowledge doesn't. The tests don't. I wish there was a quicker and easier way to do this. Until I let my certifications lapse last year, I had been certified in CPR every year since I was 14. And I was certified in First Aid every year since I was about 17 or 18. Painful. Honestly.