Crime Scene Investigation - CSI Cheras

Yes! It is actually finally here.
Exciting and yet, a little nervewrecking (ok, a lot nervewrecking)
So far, my course has been, well awesome for the lack of a better word. Its been laid out well, thanks to experience and all the stuff thats to be learnt (or drilled into us) is directly or indirectly just helping build information in our brains.
So it has been 2 months!! Since I left home and boy, they have FLOWN past. Lectures and decoupled labs over, we are headed for the grand finale (yes, even before finals in Jan) that we have been preparing for. Something that will test endurance and application and tolerance and God knows what else.
Its Crime Scene Exercise.
Yes. You read right. This is what we are going to be doing for 2 weeks, and the lecturers have been (scaring) telling us that its gonna be the most stressful, yet memorable 2 weeks of our lives. But then again, they've never done STPM. Haha.
Anyway, let me walk you through this exercice.
Tomorrow we'll be taken to Stepps (and although Rangers train there we've been told to be focused hahah) and there, we'll meet our crime scenes. Now our exercises are always made to be as real as possible, so we are going to be seeing a real-as-possible scene. Its in a field, and the conditions tomorrow are 5 degrees, plus winds should be 0 degrees. Add rain at noon, and there you have endurance. Oh well. Couple of years ago they tracked through a METRE of snow.
I am Crime Scene Manager for my team so there you go. There are also lab managers, exhibits managers and we all report to the SIO.
Then of course you have the scene itself. Walking through for common access path, putting up the cordons, searching, packaging, labelling, and finally actually stopping and coming back to the lab. There it'll be logging in the items, and after that the examinations. Thats what the 2 weeks are for. And then you get the "suspect" stuff to compare with and all kinds of hypotheses, blah blah blah.
At the end of these 2 weeks (thank you, God) we submit all case files, court reports etc to be given to the lawyers. (The postgrad law students, to be exact, the baby lawyers) They then review everything and get ready to discuss stuff with us to prepare their case etc.
Then in March, we all go to court (actual court with an actual Sheriff) to be expert witness and learn how to sweat in the witness stand.
Besides that we'll get to role play and be the macer, clerk, accussed (hahahha) etc.
And after which it will be the closure of the case.

Yes, I know it sounds fantabulouslyamazinglyawesome.
So, wellies on, socks on, thiiick jacket and scarf on, insulated hat on, huge crime scene suit on. D-Day tomorrow.