If any of you want to be boisterous in a pool when I am around, I now have the authority to tell you off, for today I passed my lifeguard and first aid at work assessments! We all did, thankfully, and I am so proud of myself, especially the pool work, where I did struggle on a couple of bits.
Anyway, day off tomorrow to recover and then back to normal sessions, having missed the field studies schools that have just been in. Never mind.
BTW the top photo is of Gareth (now gone to another centre near london) and Matt (fellow field studies instructor, hilarious). The bottom one is (left to right): Nikki (blonde, shared a room with her during training), Stacey (lying down, shared training room with her), Niki (lesbian, living with her now), Bonnie (also lesbian, going out with Hannah), Hannah (lesbian, going out with Bonnie - absolutely hilarious, probably my best friend here so far, though Nikki and Stacey come close!).
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Yes, I know...
Sorry I haven't updated for a while- very busy as usual.
So I've been doing lots of quads and aeroball lately, waiting for the next field studies school to come in. But I signed up for a lifeguard course, which is actually running at the same time.
We started it yesterday, and it's very interesting and useful, though very hard work and as I can't wear my lenses in the pool (no goggles allowed) it is an interesting experience!
We get assessed on Tuesday, then we are qualified for 3 years, which is quite cool.
Anyway, not much else to report!
So I've been doing lots of quads and aeroball lately, waiting for the next field studies school to come in. But I signed up for a lifeguard course, which is actually running at the same time.
We started it yesterday, and it's very interesting and useful, though very hard work and as I can't wear my lenses in the pool (no goggles allowed) it is an interesting experience!
We get assessed on Tuesday, then we are qualified for 3 years, which is quite cool.
Anyway, not much else to report!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Chavs and night duty
Sorry I haven't updated you for a while, but I had typed out my update and then the internet crashed, so I am having to write it out all over again!
Anyway.
Yes, I have been very busy seeing to lots of older kids recently. there have been two major incidents that are worth mentioning:
1. Bishop Luffa chav kids: This school group of 200 consisted almost entirely of chavs, which made it almost impossible to instruct certain sessions. I had several sessions with them, almost all of which were fine apart from my two problem solving sessions, which is a shame, as this is one of my favourite sessions. They were having none of it, and would not stop messing around, even though I tried to be calm, funny and shouty. In the end I pulled the session from the naughty kids, who went to sit by the teacher for half an hour looking bored, watching the good kids having fun solving the problems.
2. The Night Duty incident: Everyone, once in a while, needs to complete night duty, which involves patrolling set areas of the chalets to keep the noise down. One night recently, Hannah and I were patrolling the 16 yr olds, who were having a little rave in their room, which we didn't think was that loud at all. However, up comes my favourite person AJ with another guy called Jonesy, who were patroling over the other side of the site. They muscled in, shouted at the kids like teachers, got laughed at, then threatened to take their stereo away. It was so overboard, and it was a shame as the kids were actually really nice. Anyway, we thought that was all until the teachers came up, having been dragged up from the bar by, you've guessed it, AJ. They were very disappointed in us saying "I thought you'd come and get us if there were any problems" which made us look really stupid and unprofessional. We complained to management, and he did apologise, saying that he was wrong to do what he did, without telling us or asking anyone else. He's still an idiot though!
I had to have the day off sick yesterday, as I have a really really bad cold and chesty cough, and was very dizzy, which would have been very dangerous if I was instructing quads! I am now feeling much better, and no longer keeping people awake coughing in my sleep!
Training course two are now here (well, they've been here for about a week now) and it was weird today because Vicky and I had to partially train them on quads (really just their taster session). Alysia's boyfriend is with them and seems really nice.
Oh, two people were sacked yesterday for their attitudes towards the instructors and the company, which came as a big surprise. It will be sad without Phil, though I haven't the foggiest who Luke is so I obviously won't miss him!
Anyway.
Yes, I have been very busy seeing to lots of older kids recently. there have been two major incidents that are worth mentioning:
1. Bishop Luffa chav kids: This school group of 200 consisted almost entirely of chavs, which made it almost impossible to instruct certain sessions. I had several sessions with them, almost all of which were fine apart from my two problem solving sessions, which is a shame, as this is one of my favourite sessions. They were having none of it, and would not stop messing around, even though I tried to be calm, funny and shouty. In the end I pulled the session from the naughty kids, who went to sit by the teacher for half an hour looking bored, watching the good kids having fun solving the problems.
2. The Night Duty incident: Everyone, once in a while, needs to complete night duty, which involves patrolling set areas of the chalets to keep the noise down. One night recently, Hannah and I were patrolling the 16 yr olds, who were having a little rave in their room, which we didn't think was that loud at all. However, up comes my favourite person AJ with another guy called Jonesy, who were patroling over the other side of the site. They muscled in, shouted at the kids like teachers, got laughed at, then threatened to take their stereo away. It was so overboard, and it was a shame as the kids were actually really nice. Anyway, we thought that was all until the teachers came up, having been dragged up from the bar by, you've guessed it, AJ. They were very disappointed in us saying "I thought you'd come and get us if there were any problems" which made us look really stupid and unprofessional. We complained to management, and he did apologise, saying that he was wrong to do what he did, without telling us or asking anyone else. He's still an idiot though!
I had to have the day off sick yesterday, as I have a really really bad cold and chesty cough, and was very dizzy, which would have been very dangerous if I was instructing quads! I am now feeling much better, and no longer keeping people awake coughing in my sleep!
Training course two are now here (well, they've been here for about a week now) and it was weird today because Vicky and I had to partially train them on quads (really just their taster session). Alysia's boyfriend is with them and seems really nice.
Oh, two people were sacked yesterday for their attitudes towards the instructors and the company, which came as a big surprise. It will be sad without Phil, though I haven't the foggiest who Luke is so I obviously won't miss him!
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