I like to think of myself as both. As most of you know, I am working this summer as a lifeguard and swim teacher for Provo city (and you thought lifeguarding was for high schoolers...ha!) Well, a couple weeks I saved someone! Actually, it was my very first day of lifeguarding, I had just finished my certification classes that morning. Crazy, huh? The pool that I work at has waterslides and a teenage boy came out crying and holding his head because he had banged it while trying to do a flip in the slide. Genius. Pool policy is whenever someone could have a possible head or neck injury you have to stabilize them in the water and put them on a backboard until EMS shows up. Not doing so=big liability. I did all of those things and he ended up being fine, but it was still kind of scary. The funny thing is that most of the girls I work with have been lifeguards for like five years and have never had to save anyone. I had been a lifeguard for like two hours. So I am a hero in that sense.
On another note, I am a giant loser. I am getting a cold from teaching swim lessons in the freezing cold I think, but anyways, I was feeling super sick after work last night so I took some drugs and finally fell asleep. I slept for like ten hours and when I woke up this morning at ten, Chris turns to me and asks "Didn't you have some test this morning or something?" It is then that I realized in my sickened stupor I totally forgot to set my alarm for my Praxis exam (the exam I have to take to get my teaching license and which started at 7:30 in the morning). I had actually totally spaced the night before that the Praxis was the next morning. Well, it's just a $130 down the drain. No worries. Sometimes I can be such a loser.
