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Training to be a swim teacher

So it's been two weeks of some training .... and I have loved it! The kids are cute, the families are so friendly and involved with their kids' progress, and my coworkers are so helpful.  I start teaching my classes on my own starting on Friday.  I am nervous and not nervous about it.  I spent an hour and a half today writing my lesson plans and I feel prepared enough.  I just feel so new and unprepared too - makes no sense I know, but that's the best way I can describe it. This week is Survival week, which is when we challenge our Level 2 and 3 swimmers to practice their survival swimming skills in a controlled and safe place.  What we want for our swimmers is that they will have practiced their survival skills enough in our pool that they will feel prepared to respond in an emergency situation, such as accidentally falling into water. Splash swim school is working toward offering classes for special needs kids...they are called Adaptive swim classes I think.  I will
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Tomorrow I start my new job as a swim teacher

I have been a swimmer all of my life.  I mostly swam under water until my mom and dad signed me up for YMCA swim team.  I had no idea what that meant, but I soon learned to swim on top of the water.  And found my first love.  I competitively swam for the Y team, AAU team in the summers, and then high school team.  I was completely immersed in the swimming world, helping at the boys' swim meets (and some of them I had a crush on of course).  And a friend and I helped our Y coach to coach the little kids at the Y too.   I soon found my second love, running, during my sophomore year of high school.  I liked track and LOVED cross country running.  Our team was the first girls' cross country team...in our town.  Running felt like flying to me.  I love to fly. I continued to run and swim off and on during college, and after graduation.  I took almost 15 years off from what I loved due to work and family commitments.  After my kids grew up, I started to run seriously again
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