When my sister and I were younger, we looked after each other a lot. Our mom was always working as she was a single mother of two at the time. During the summers, we spent most of our time at home alone. We would make our own food, do our chores, and keep each other entertained. Eventually one summer we were enrolled into a summer program that went from 7 am to 5 pm. This gave our mom some peace of mind because she knew we were generally safe at all times. Though not everything we did was without its risks. This summer program was the coolest thing to my sister and I. Most of the days were just spent at the rec center playing ping pong, going on computers, even preparing for a dancing competition at the end of the summer. But every …show more content…
Every Wednesday was something different. Occasionally we all would go to Adventure Landing and go to the water park. The St.Augustine fort was my sisters and my favorite that we went to. On every Friday the first month of camp, we went to the beach and learned about different types of marine animals and the best ways to catch them. We also were taught life saving techniques. It was considered a junior lifeguard training program. They taught us things about different currents such as riptides and how to get out of them which turns out became very vital information. After that first month of the lifeguard training, we had finished the program. Fridays turned into just being beach days. Our counselors basically allowed us free reign to do what we wanted if it wasn't beyond reason. They did have a few rules but they were very reasonable and were more common sense. Some of these rules were not go to far out in the water or too far down the beach. At this point my sister and I were some of the best swimmers there. When I was five and she was six, our grandparents got us swimming lessons for two summers in a row. We had become very strong swimmers even at our small sizes. Needless to say, we weren't big fans of the distance limit. The
The First five weeks the student’s learn life saving, knot tying, underwater knot tying, basic first aid, and surf passages in small inflatable boats. Along with this is a 50-yard underwater swim, which must be completed and the students are often revived when they pass out. Also throughout out the whole six months of BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition School), the Seal Teams go through many torturous events and lessons. One of these being surf torture. This is where the entire class must wade into the surf zone to their waistline, then sit down with arms linked. Just to let you know the water in Coronado, California never gets above sixty-eight degrees during the summer and fifty-eight degrees during the winter. There the men with linked arms will sit there for hours at a time, soon the cold sucks out all of their body warmth and the whole class is shivering in unison as the waves crash over there heads.
At age 10 my mother started worked every day and I would be the ones to get my siblings from school. My father was rarely there so I would clean and take care of my brothers and sister and pick them up from school. I always had to deal with problems in my life starting with bullying.
To achieve this great tan one must sign up for the three-week course that the YMCA offers for $100. During the three-week course, you learn how to spot potential victims and accidents. You will also learn how to communicate with pool patrons who have lost their children and those who are breaking the rules. Not, only do they teach you how to watch the pool, but they teach you about skin safety. You learn about which hours are the worst times to be out in the sun and how much SPF to use during those times and how to inform patrons about sun skin safety. Its not all by the book; you will have to get into the water to show your swimming ability and practice techniques, such as how to enter the pool when someone has a spinal injury. Also you need to learn how to deal with victims who are in shock and ways to approach victims who are delusional. You will learn to be assertive with the rules, and when it is necessary to use your whistle. They teach you when to close the pool in emergencies and how it is appropriate to close the pool during thunderstorms. You will also learn to work as a team with your fellow guards, how to use the tube, and the correct ways to clean out the pool with the vacuum.
First of all, doing nothing sparks creativity. While parents create schedules for their children to attend multiple activities or summer camps they tend to forget what they did as a child. When I was growing up we played in the field, went exploring and rode our bikes through
“When I was little, we used to have something called Swim Team at our Britannia Clubhouse,” Bilan says. “I loved it. We got to swim, try different moves and techniques and have fun in the
Even though Lori and I never pushed our boys (well, too much), they clamored for adventure. In the summer of 2002, this adventure once again led John back to the water. He’d heard that his best childhood friends were doing Junior Lifeguards.
My sister and I are a few years apart from each other, like most kids are. Over the years we have grown to be much more alike, unlike our childhood we were not alike at all. When I was younger I loved going to the park, riding bike all around town unlike my sister and her friends they did more of the sitting around the house stuff, but we both loved going camping and canoeing with our parents. We actually did stuff together often when we were young, like staying at home on weekends
A few of my sisters went onto middle school while my younger sister Elaine and I finished elementary school. As I got older I became more of a loner kid like in middle school. I liked being inside playing video games. I considered myself the good kid compared to my sisters who were full of drama and craziness I think. My mom continued to work at big lots and my dad was still a land surveyor. I had the typical child hood as I grew through the years here in Aurora. That was until my mom started getting sick which really turned my world upside down. I was so worried about my mom. She lost her job and had to stay home. She was always sick and at home. There came a time where it was very difficult for her to take care of us. She would have multiple sinus surgeries trying to get better but they only seemed to make them worst. She started getting extreme migraines from nerve damage. It was hard to be around kids at that time for her. Sadly it would only get
Being the oldest of seven, my mom had the responsibility of caring and looking after her siblings. Growing up her mom had left them at a very young age and did not come back for a while. She had to act as a parent to her siblings and also work to help her dad be a single parent to seven kids. They did not get to go on family vacations, camps, or even have a lot of free time to do what they wanted. The only time she could feel free and be like a kid was when she went to school.
My freshman seminar class hitherto has been good. In this class I have been learning about various topics. These topics fall into helping us for high school and preparing us for the future. These topics was important and necessary because they helped us to avoid from not being successful. One of the topics we have recently accomplished was budgeting.
I used to go to a daycare that was owned by one of my moms best friends. In the summer we would always go on ¨vacations”as we would call them. We would go to the same place almost every year but this time we went to a zoo with a water park next door to it. It worked out perfect, first we would go to the zoo and get hungry, then we would go outside and have a picnic, then we would go to the water park. We went to the zoo as a whole but then let the older kids go by themselves.
They stated that “keeping our school open and functioning during the summer provides a haven for
“One girl says she learned how to properly use workout equipment, which will help her down the road to prevent injuries and make working out even more fun (Merryman, Mezei). Everyone needs to find something they excel at and summer camp can lead children down that path to
6. Learn to swim. Enroll yourself and your children aged 4 and older in swimming classes. Swimming classes are not recommended for children under age 4.
The social/family time was a good one to have. It helped me talk to my parents on a more consistent basis. By talking to them it made me feel like we had a good trustworthy relationship with them. There were also times when I found myself not talking to them because I was to bust with either school soccer or my girlfriend. But, for the most part I felt this was beneficial for my relationship with my parents.