Lifegaurding<3

Tonight, Sam and I are driving to Mercer County College for our second training course to obtain the lifeguard instructor position for this summer. Before we are able to become instructors, we must pass the pool test and written test that will be given by an extremely strict woman from the Red Cross corporation! The previous session that we attended was the review in the pool. We first had to take the pretest that requires us to swim three-hundred yards (12 laps), which seems pretty easy but it is actually pretty tiring. The second part of the pretest is to retrieve a ten pound brick from the bottom of ten feet of water and swim on our backs to the other end of the pool with the brick sitting on our chests. Me and Sam both passed it pretty effortlessly, but I must admit we were a little tired. Then, we worked in partners, practicing the techniques used to save victims in different situations. Tonight's meeting will not be in the pool. We will be reviewing in a classroom, things like CPR, saving a chocking victim, caring for wounds, and dealing with heat exhaustion. We will also make sure we fully understand by demonstrating CPR on a dumby, like the skit I performed at Miss LHS, but of course this lesson will be more serious because we may have to actually use it on a real live victim. We also have classes on Saturday and Sunday. Its getting to be a lot of work.

If I pass the tests to become an instructor, I will have a lot of practice that would be great for the Senior Project presentation for the end of the year and it would also help with future experiences in the work place. I would be teaching a class, mixed of people that are around my age to people much older than me. The thought of speaking in front of a bunch of people I don't know kind of makes me nervous, but I'll have to get use to it. I will make sure I study hard so I know the facts like the back of my hand. I would be getting paid $12 an hour!