My assistance dog

I arrived at Canine Partners on Thursday 5th March with my friend, Dave, who hadn't been well, about 10.30 am for my assessment. Firstly I was with a yellow Labrador, Yanik, who had already been paired with someone but it didn't work out. He was brilliant and we went out to a field were he obeyed all my commands and I really enjoyed myself. Then came a huge Labradoodle, more like a wolfhound, he was still quite young and needed a lot more training, so he took no notice of me and decided to pee everywhere, the trainer decided that we had enough of him. Then came a beautiful, female back Lab called Fleur. When she came up to me, I said, 'my lap' and she jumped up and tried to lick me to death. She still needed a bit more training and was a bit scatty. After lunch they brought me Yanik again for more indoor training and he was very good in obeying my commands again, as you might expect from a fully trained dog. There is a command for telling the dog not to touch or pick something up, that is; 'don't touch'. The trainer put some dog biscuits on the floor and I had to walk past them with Yanik and he mustn't pick them up, all very well! I was told to walk up to the biscuits, say 'don't touch', go past, stop and give him a treat and say 'good boy'. Ok, that worked well until she put down another 4 biscuits, as I walked up to them and was about to say, 'don't touch', when Yanik lunged forward, put his paw out and pulled one towards him and eat it! I said 'don't touch' but too late and I also stopped which was the wrong thing to do. Anyway it was all a bit funny and afterwards it all worked perfectly.
After that I sat down with several of the trainers and we discussed all the questions I asked and it is 90% sure that I will be getting Yanik. They then asked me some questions and we went over to have a look at the chalets, which are very nice indeed. I will probably go down to the centre on the 12th or 19th April for the 2 weeks training course. I'll arrive on the Sunday and leave on the Friday of the following week with the dog and bring him home. They will have care there all day so I will have all my needs catered for, they will also provide all the food and do the cooking, also they will do any washing and ironing that is needed to be done. Everything has been well thought out and prepared.
I am so excited about it and looking forward to going for the training.
I'll let you know when I have the confirmation that I will be having Yanik.
Dave did extremely well as we were running very late Thurs evening and didn't get home until gone 10 pm so he had to put me to bed.