CPR certified

Last saturday we took a (very basic) CPR course at a small international school.
I signed up for it like 2 months ago, and was supposed to attend on Wednesday, but when I told Gera, this is what happened:
(i must first say that he knew about the course from the beginning)

me: "I'm going to the CPR thing today, I wont be home when you get back"
Gera: "that is today?
me: "yes"
Gera: "can i come too?"
me:" I don't know... I don't think so. Space is limited and i know they opened a SAturday course because there was a lot of demand"
Gera:"can you ask if there's room for one more today, or maybe we can we both go together on saturday?"
me: "!!!!!..... ok, i'll see what i can do. i'll try to call someone or something"

Then i go and make a round of calls and wait and call again, and finally I am told that we could have the last 2 spots on the saturday course.

On saturday we took a train (this was not in Zurich, but in a village/town nearby, like 40 minutes by train) and were trying really hard to be there on time ... but we weren't. The instructions on their site said to take bus 165 from the town's main station, and we got off the train looking for said bus. By the time we realized (by looking at the posted schedule) that the bus did not run on saturdays and that we should take number 150 instead, bus 150 rolled out and left....
Then we were stuck, because on saturdays buses don't run very often (like 2 per hour or less), especially on small towns.
So we took another bus that would leave us like 4 stops away from the school, and we figured we could walk from there.
When we got off the bus, we noticed that the walk was uphill. Not a good thing for a preggo lady. But we were running late, and we started walking. Then we realized that the first of 4 stops was not so near after all. and by the time we reached the 1st bus stop it was already 9am (the course started at 9am), so we decided to just wait for the bus (9 minutes).
We reached the school at about 9:15, and the doors were already closed. I tried calling the office, but there was no answer. Then I called the same lady who had been kind enough to accomodate my schedule changes, and she proceeded to call people who would be inside the school at the time (including the nurses teaching the course). As i was on the phone with her, we tried to get in behind a woman who had access to he building, and she was VERY rude and would not let us in, and would not go find someone to come let us in. She was plain mean!. Eventually, a teacher came to open the door for us, and we were finally inside at 9:25. The course had already started and i was extremely embarrassed to be late. But better late than never!

The course itself was very informative, and very "light". It was only 3 hours long (2.5 for us. ehem!), and we were following along a video and practicing on dummies. This whole CPR thing is HARD WORK! They make it seem so much easier on TV. We also learned about what to do when a baby/toddler chokes on something, and about how to use the public access defibrillator (way cool!). After the course was over, we were handed a little card and now we're CPR certified for 2 years in switzerland. (i think it is scary how little one must know to be CPR certified, hehe)