i started my training for the front desk this past sunday which was good, idk when i'll finish it or have hours there, but i really liked it. i need to get out of that pool room. it's exhausting. just sitting there in the heat and then the chlorine makes my eyes burn. it just gets old, fast.
idk how much longer i'll be doing swim team. i think they are going to look for someone who's actually coached before. it's not because i'm doing a bad job, it's just that the team needs someone the kids will actually listen to and could help the head coach out more. not like she ever gives me anything to do. which is really annoying, i do one practice a week by myself and help out at two others. i want to do more but she just doesn't give me anything. it's really starting to bother me, i feel like i'm getting paid for nothing, which isn't right. i should be earning the money but whenever i offer to do something more she's like "oh don't worry about it, i'll get to it or blablabla" i'm like i offered to help, i want to do more, how many other people ask for more work? none. i'm just insane lol and tonight's practice really pissed me off. i'm spoiler-ing the next part because it's just a long rant.
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here's some back story that will help with the telling of this story because i need to vent. so we break the kids up into lanes based on relative age and ability. lane 1 is for beginners, the 8 and unders. lane two is for like the 9 and 10 year olds, they swim well but couldn't really do like a 2,000+ yard work out. lane 3 is like 13 and 14 year olds, they are pretty strong swimmers and can do a decent amount of yards. and lane 4 is the older kids, 15-18 (there are sometimes younger swimmers, but they have to really be serious about swimming and prove that they can do the yards), they should be able to manage swimming the work out given to them without having us (the coaches) really worrying about them much. well tonight lane 4 consisted of 5 boys, aged 12-17. we'll call them D, C, N, J, and K. D is a friend, fellow lifeguard and swim instructor, he's 17, and is typically pretty mature. not tonight. and since he was acting like a tool bag so was everyone else in that lane, except for N. N was good and removed himself from it because he didn't want to deal with the stupidity. anyway to my point. during practice, D started off by completely skipping the warm up, instead he just messed around and distracted the other ones who were swimming. then he started to do some of the work out but i had to tell them to keep going about 50x. and then he stole N's water bottle and held it hostage underwater for a good 5 minutes. i was like seriously, are you 5? then as N was swimming back towards the wall, D dove off the block narrowly missing hitting N. this was on purpose. oh and then he, C, K and J, were swimming the width of the pool underwater while everyone else was doing what they were supposed to do. and when i told them they needed to be doing the work out and could mess around when they were done they ignored me until the other coach yelled at them. after that D was just dicking around a bunch so i said to him "look i expect this from lane 1, but you're in lane 4 and you're the oldest one here, you also work here, set a better example and cut the crap." to which he responded "whoa chill out bro" i was fuming. i just walked away and pretty much ignored them the rest of practice. and at the end N came up to me and was like "i seriously think someone needs to have a talk with those guys, tonight was out of hand, especially D, he knows better, and he dove in right at me which really wasn't safe or good with the younger kids around." all i could say was that i knew and would talk to the other coach, who also happens to be mine and D's boss. and i could see parents were obviously upset too, but what could i do? they didn't listen to me, i tried. when i talked to my boss about it she said that it was D's last warning and that she saw what was going on (she had been in the pool working with the younger kids) and that it was a test to see if they could handle not having someone on their backs the whole time but apparently they can't. so when my shift was over i went over to D and said "look i know we're friends but at practice i'm your coach, not your 'bro'. and tonight was unacceptable, you were out of line and you know better" he just was like uhh oh. ok. so yea anyway i'm done ranting, i needed to vent.
moving on. i haven't even started my christmas shopping. i still have to make a list of who i need to buy for and what i need to get for them. and i have no idea when i'll even be able to go shopping. i'm busy every day until the monday after next. fuuuuuuck.
a little girl that has swim lessons and comes to open swim all the time with her dad gave me a box of chocolates today. it made my week. totally makes up for the swim team shit lol
uhhmmm idk heres some pictures. i hate blogs without pictures.
(blurred out my dad's face, it wasn't a good pic of him anyway)
i want my hair like this. except i'd shave that part (duh). not completely bald, but like short, like 1/4-1/2 inch?
getting there!!!
so remember how i said i'm awkward? here's the video that lead to this realization. ok so i've known for years but this made me notice it the other day haha
ok well i need to get to bed. nighty night!
the pics are looking amazing!!!!
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