These lifeguard classes are weird! I love that they insist a lot on scanning and that they want us to care about our guests. They told us to scan like we know our non-swimming parents are coming, but we don't know when. The only problem is that everything they show us is different than what I have learned. The pocket masks are different, we do Artificial Respiration, when doing CPR we have to give breaths from behind the head of the victim and not from the side, to get an unconscious victim out of the pool we use the back board, but we don't care about spinal injuries... This class is giving me a headache! Not only is everything different, but I keep translating everything in my head to try to understand and I keep getting mixed up when I count! At least their philosophy is Make it Work so they don't care how we rescue the victim as long as it works.
The first two days, we saw how to do AR and CPR, how to rescue conscious and unconscious people and how to treat a spinal injury (only if the person is conscious, if the person is unconscious we don't treat the spinal injury). The last day, we saw all the first aid stuff in an hour and then started the exam. I had perfect in both CPR and the written exam so they gave me a key chain and for the team exam, we made a couple of mistakes, but we fixed them all so we passed. I am so glad the lifeguard training is over and I can finally start on the job training. I start training at Typhoon Lagoon on Saturday (May 24) and I have my first real shift next Saturday (May 31).
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AuthorHello everyone! My name is Marie-Ève. I am from Québec, Canada and this blog is about my summer as a cast member in Walt Disney World. Since most of my family and friends speak French, everything on this blog will be written both in English and French. Archives
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