WSI

I'm a WSI.
I teach kids how to swim. I work for "The City."
There are six lessons in a session, and I taught six classes. That equals... a lot of classes.
The last class (or at least, the first round of "the end"), was today.
Bittersweet. These kids are SO cute. They like to show off, and once a few of them learned my name it was "Miss Alayna, watch this!" and "Miss Alayna I'm going to try a trick!" over and over again.
It gets VERY annoying... and is somewhat endearing.

So now. I will log in my day. Be warned. My mind will wander.
First I spent a few hours of a Lifeguard. It's kind of hard to continue a conversation with another Lifeguard when you switch stands every 15 minutes, and only chat for the time it takes to switch. And keep in mind that these tiny snippets of conversation happen while one person is on the stand, so you can't even hear what is said half of the time. But when someone makes the effort to keep up a conversation.... it really means something.
So I kept it up
And he asked me if I was going to the dance this Saturday. I never go to the dances, and he knows that.
But he still asked.
And I think I would... but I kind-of promised to Lifeguard for a swim party.

Pity.

Moving on. (And I'm not saying who "he" is. Not over the internet.)

Being a WSI is not fun. 

There have been times when my lesson plans have gone down the drain. Literally. Some kid was playing with the laminated paper and it fell down the large drain. There has been a bloody nose. The water has been so cold that even the most adventurous of kids wants to go home early. Kids wander around the entire pool and they almost never ALL pay attention ALL at the same time. We get in the water more than anyone else, and have a LOT of names to memorize. It's a lot of responsibility to decide weather or not a kid passes on to the next level. AND for the first time ever, all 6 of my 4 year-olds showed up TODAY.

Being a WSI is fun. 

Kids trust you. They try to show off for you. They try to out-do each other to impress you. Life-jacket day is fun. All of the classes get together, hold hands in a circle, and play "ring around the rosies." This means that I can hold hands with him... and no one will ever know (including him, but there you go.). It is fun to be a WSI when you get a glowing report from a mother of your private lesson saying that "After one lesson with Alayna, he looked forward to every lesson!" It's fun when kids look disappointed when they find out they might not have you as their teacher next time. It's fun when they stop and wave at you through the guard shack window because they recognize you. It's fun when you get to play games. It's fun for a lot of reasons. 

My FAVORITE kid didn't show up for his last lesson today. So I did my time-card instead. It just so happens, that last time I did my time-card, was the only other time I had a lesson no-show.

Kind of convenient.

I stayed a little bit after work today to watch a much-anticipated race between a co-worker (who had bragged about his speed) and the boyfriend of another co-worker. Even our supervisors came out to watch. The boyfriend won. By a lot. 

 It was fun. Now I have a lot of paperwork to turn in.