Hey guys,
So the 2nd week after the first was more training but focusing on child protection plus other adventures ie overnight, outings to the beach, mall (lots of Abercrombie and Fitch clothing!) and my first baseball game. The overnight stay is where we take our unit to overnight stay away from camp into the forest. This overnight for that week was for us counsellors so we know how to do it for kids plus bonding time. I found out I'm looking after 6-9 years old unit. Our unit are called 'Colony'.
We also have emergency call at waterfront called 'LBD' which stands for 'Lost Bather Drill' once the siren is heard, we would ran literally so fast wherever we are. We will stop and drop what we are doing and run to waterfront whatever clothes we had on and jump in. The campus on camp is fairly close so running would take 5 mins to reach desination point. We are trained in different area, turtles are shallow ends, dolphins fairly deep but I'm in the shark area (specialist) meaning I have to dive 18ft to search for body and they aren't many staff willing to go to shark area because, the further u get, the colder, darker, murkier, with lot of fishes down there and there is much more compression to breathing, the oxygen gauge quickly runs out. Its scary how number time I nearly choked as I realised how far it is to get back up to surface again. It's not like swimming in the pool breathing technique, it's actually frightening how quickly it runs out.
Trooper the dog who kept us entertain during our American Red Cross training, only 8 months old boxer.
Brand new lifeguard top after qualifying, a week of training.
Breakfast is considerably full of carbs, cereal, waffles, pancakes, maple syrup, coffee cakes, muffins. Hardly any protein so looks like six pack will have to be put on hold for now 😜
On our day off, we visit Miami beach, lots of bikers there. And lots of different police cars, not all are the same, think this one below was specialist ie FBI or some sort, we saw this as we were leaving.
View from overnight camp
Me and J on overnight camp late evening.
Cooking to perfection, getting ready for kids, knowing how. Bonding time.
Sunset at waterfront
Original USA school bus, off to beach, mall and baseball game.
Saw security guard in the mall on Segway.
Abercrombie store selfie
USA anthem song
Our incarnation camp staff at baseball game, awesome time!
Awaiting for campers to arrive
Blowing bubbles...
Just found out who would be in my tent, I have two strange names Pilot and Ever, Ever was telling me this story how he was given that name, his mum was watching the film and the ending came up 'forever and ever' and decided to name him Ever. Wow, it's always nice to hear how this came into details. I didn't ask what was the movie was or ask pilot how he got his name, I'm sure it will be a ice breaker chatting tomgirls. Oh another thing, Pilot was such a hit with ladies, one night we had our unit nights with other girls unit, which was a dance night. Pilot and Ever are cuties, poor Pilot didn't know to control girls as they were grabbing him all directions for a dance with him. The girls was ratio of 3:1 guys so not many boys for the girls. Desperation ran everywhere that night looking to for someone to dance, we had a lot of boys standing against wall, really scared getting close to the girls. I don't recall girls doing that at that age.
Myself attempting play tennis.
I'll be now posting posts about my Christian journey at incarnation. I don't think I realised how hard it is when there's no one supporting you or a friend to lean on (apart from my fellowships back home in Belfast and London). Something awesome had happened couple weeks ago and that's shows when u prayed to God with faith He will answers to your prayers. I'm so excited to share u this what He done...Watch out soon, peace out! 😊
