Day 17 (Lifeguard Training Day 2)

Training to be lifeguard...saving lives...once in our lives...3 months of our time...

training...training and it's basically just training the whole day...more CPR drills in the morning and it was followed by a 40-min lunch break...went to look for vicki the person in charge of our payrolls with the rest to clarify our payment errors...wtf tell us that it is not in the system and gives all sorts of excuses...and say she gotta check again...how can that be?? when 2 of the gang got twice the amount we get when we worked exactly the same number of hours...confirm some bloody admin cock-up and still dun wanna admit...they better pay up asap...pissed off totally...arrrrrggghhh...

water practise straight aft lunch...and stayed in the pool till almost sunset...all of us were tested on the water skills we were taught over the past few days at the end of the session...part of the practical assessment to be lifeguard...anyway the whole training course has been compressed to juz 3 days to cope with this coming memorial day long weekend and the opening of the waterparkon Sat...a formal training session will be held again in 2 weeks time when the full lifeguard course will be conducted...who cares if they are going to teach the same things over again in the nxt course...they are paying us to train anyway...get to learn something useful and get paid den why not??

headed back to the mag straight aft training...whipped myself a mean meal of pasta...watched finish "american beauty" borrowed frm ken...interesting movie starring kevin spacey showing the dysfunctional aspects of american family life...and stopped halfway "When harry meets sally" before deciding to turn in for the day at 11.30pm...the earliest time i slept since i arrived in US...one of those monotonous days i suppose