Things Students Say...

[profundis]

Every 3 months or so I teach a class that prepares my students for the paperwork involved in working in various massage settings. To do so they roleplay being clients and therapists for each other and in doing so they fill out simulated medical files as if they were really checking in to a medical center, chiropractors office etc.

Sometimes they fill these forms out as if for their real life selves and sometimes they make up characters and fill in the forms with fake or humorous things. Here are a few examples, with excerpts from the forms from my latest class:

Name: Dolly Parton
Is your life stressful? Please describe Yes, fans from all over the world drive me crazy
Surgeries: facelift, breast implants, silicone injections
Is there anything else we should know about you? Breasts are full of silicone

Name: Henny Penny
Are you pregnant? No eggs
Is your life stressful? Please describe Yes, the sky is falling
Is there anything else we should know about you? I have feathers

Some random bits and pieces:

Occupation:

• full time couch potato
• slave to the Man

Referred by: Big sign outside

Reasons for wanting a massage: Stressed the F out!

Are you taking any medication?

• medical marijuana from California doctor
• just street drugs

Is your life stressful? Please describe

• Yes my neck hurts from propping it up on couch arm
• Yes, I need money

Are you currently experiencing emotional difficulties?

• yes, people get on my nerves
• who isn't?

Is there anything else we should know about you?

• no, its not your business!
• I am grouchy
• I am very lovable
• I'm awesome!