Guarding lives

i realised our update is really really laggy so i shall do a quick entry here. Photo updates will come later cos i haven't transferred them. So for the first week we had orientation and stuff, second week minrui had training and she's now a lifeguard! YAY! Minrui's really really happy cos she's been wanting to learn these skills for years but find the courses expensive. But now she's being paid to learn. So YAY!

Work started proper over the weekend (it's Memorial Day weekend by the way) cos it's turning summer and the water park is now opened. It's quite hectic i'd say. Minrui will either be at the water ride or at the pool guarding (just like what i told yall back in SG). We rotate throughout the day so i get to be at different places. Dispatching people down the ride is fun. It reminds me of the odac times when i dispatch people down the flying fox. Talking about that, an odac junior is here working as a lifeguard too, and i JUST met an odac batch mate like ten minutes ago along the corridor (she's also here for work and travel)! Cool, this is like reunion time! There's much much more reunions going on and i'll talk about these when the photos are up.

So i was talking about dispatching people. Other than that there's also other positions like unloading people after their ride, and of course lifeguarding. Lifeguarding's quite fun though abit boring. Boring cos you just sit there and scan the water. But it's fun cos minrui gets to ruminate on things or just stone and minrui really enjoys the me-times. And also because i get to see cute little boys (toddlers) at the pool! Too bad i couldn't take photos of them since i was working.

i work for about 8 hours a day, and including lunch time (to be more accurate, break time) it'll be 9 hours. And for that 9 hours i'm always on the ball, either at my position or rushing from one place to another for rotation of job. It's pretty tiring but it's not as tiring as doing camps where we work at least 18h a day (and the pay's pale in comparison). But camp's a 3-day-2-night thing and even if i do camps back to back it's 5-day-4-night? Yet this is going to last for 2 months. i don't know whether i can "tahan". Then again, we have a day or two off every week and we're taking days off for trips to Washington DC and New York City. And i guess with getting used to the routine things will be fine. But i'm already "chao-tah". Yes, a mere two weeks and i'm tanned. (And i actually got sunburnt on the first day of training.) Show yall photo of my bronze skin next time.

For the whole day we just keep applying layers after layers of sunblock, as if they're free. Technically they're free cos they're just there for us to use, but that's not the point. Oh and even so it doesn't make it a free good; it's still an economic good. Gasps, i still remember my economics! But i digressed. Despite the burning sun it's still cold here, cos it's just the turn of the season. BRRRRRRR.. And i suspect i'm so going to lose weight because shivering burns fats (i think) and i'm using alot of carbohydrate for my work. Then again i may gain muscle mass. But maybe not since i'm spending half the time scanning the water. Okay i'm not making sense already. Time to bathe and sleep. There's still work tomorrow! Toodles.