Day One

Well what I expected to happen this afternoon with our first day of training didn't happen; Instead, we started off with two vga cables short and two ethernet cables short ( I hope we'll have enough) and to top it off, three of the four power points in the room wouldn't work(what else could go wrong?).  Half an hour to go and still no sign of any parents turning up.......six minutes later and in walks two beautiful ladies ready to go.  I hope they didn't see the panic on my face when they saw me scurring around like a headless chook trying to find extension cords to rectify our little power problem.    Two more ladies and counting...one of our males (prepared with flask of tea in hand) turns up,  a mum and daughter arrive, and lastly, two more ladies (yay we've got eight ready to go).  Introductions, not my cup of tea really, try to avoid them at all costs, oh well can't be helped I suppose.  Here goes....well what came out wasn't an introduction it was more like a course outline and expectation.  Good that's done now.  Introductions, take two.....well that wasn't as bad as I had thought.  Great, everyone knows everyone elses name now.  In walks our last male, great.  First port of call, pre-test, or what? No need for tests, hands up will do.  We have got four computer beginners who seem keen to jump in head first and give it a go (I'm glad), so let's get going quick.  Oh no 4pm and where is my right hand woman? Ahhh here she is.  Email set up; should be a breeze to do.  Gmail, oh no not the easiest email to set up.  One of the men already has a gmail email (rhymes), the other mother has an email address too and one of our ladies.  One gmail account finally set up after all the failed attempts at typing in those ridiculous distored coloured letters that you have to input.  What is Google trying to do here? Keep out the humans or what? I think they don't want the beginning emailer to actually get their email accounts sorted.  Second email account set up, four to go.  What a nightmare! Our three ladies who are still struggling with those "distorted coloured letters" are starting to get frustrated, as am I.  Yay, one more email account sorted, but through Yahoomail.  Thank goodness for Yahoo; Google you have lost a customer due to those hideous hard to read "distored coloured letters".  Has anyone out in blogger land have any handy hints to help our last two ladies get their gmail email sorted, or have you had a similar experience you would like to share?