Week 20 of 52 (May 13th, 2013 to May 19th,
2013): P.O.S.T Exam and Nutraloaf.
The
last few weeks have been crazy and were filled with so much that I felt as if
my head was going to explode. Good thing that didn't happen! Well this is the
first week (for about 3 weeks) that I feel like things are going back to
normal. Although things are still hectic, I actually fell like this week was
filled with some really cool new things.
On Monday (May 13th) I
was able to start off my week with the P.O.S.T Exam. If you are not familiar
with this exam, don’t worry. I can honestly say that I really had no idea what
it was until I was taking the test! The P.O.S.T Exam stands for “Police Officer
Selection Test”. All I knew when I was taking the exam is that I needed to pass
it, in order to enter into the Washington County Reserve Deputy Program. The test is broken up into 4 parts. The first
part of the P.O.S.T exam is simple arithmetic (addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division) and requires no law knowledge. The second part of
the P.O.S.T exam is reading comprehension.
The third section of the P.O.S.T exam tests for grammar knowledge and
the last test part is the report writing section based on a fictional incident
report.
I still do not know how I did… but
test results should be coming back soon. Even if I do pass the exam, it still
means that I have a lot more steps to do just to see if they want me or not! So
yeah, how many people have taken the P.O.S.T? I don’t think anyone, unless they
actually have an interest in law enforcement.
The
week was not about to finish, before I could try Nutraloaf! Again, if you
haven’t heard of Nutraloaf or you have never tried it… don’t feel bad. Nutraloaf,
sometimes called prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, confinement
loaf, seg loaf, or special management meal, is a food served
in United States prisons to inmates who have demonstrated
significant behavioral issues. It is similar to meatloaf in texture,
but has a wider variety of ingredients. Prisoners may be served nutraloaf if
they have assaulted prison guards or fellow prisoners. Prison
loaf is usually bland, perhaps even unpleasant, but prison wardens argue
that nutraloaf provides enough nutrition to keep prisoners healthy
without requiring utensils to be issued. The specific Nutraloaf that I tried
was from the Washington County Jail and is baked with carrots, garbanzo beans
and a bunch of other stuff that I really wouldn’t want to eat on a daily basis.
I tried it and shockingly was the only person out of a group of about 10 who
didn’t gag. I didn’t think it was completely awful, I could eat it. But if I
had to eat it every day for sustenance I wouldn’t like it at all.
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