What made today such a great day…

November 12th, 2009 § 3

Thursday…my nice day of office shifts, and no water time. Now don’t get me wrong; I *LOVE* my water time, but I also enjoy interacting with parents/kids from behind the desk or on the pool deck as well! This Thursday was different, than the six previous this Fall session. How you might ask, over at Lakeville we had an after-school group come down from Bloomington to have some fun in the water.

For most of these kids it was their first time at any kind of swim lessons; but I did see one of my Big 4’s from my Saturday morning class :) It started when they walked in the door. All the smiles, all the looks of uncertainty of what’s coming next. Trying to corral 30ish kids was an interesting task for Graham, Melanie, myself and the two teacher’s that brought the kids. Figuring out lane assignments, peering to see who gets who as an instructor. All the things as adults we still do, but don’t think about much anymore.

Once we had everyone in their classes, the true fun began! We had six instructors in the water for this group, PLUS our two normal once a week/camp instructors in the water at one time! Eight! Eight awesome instructors in the water at the same time. It was a slow and quiet start, but about six minutes into the lessons, everyone started to get more excited, and louder. Till about ten minutes into our classes we had the pool area to a very loud ROAR! It was FANTASTIC! There was so much energy pouring out of us; but not just us! The kids were having an absolute blast! Laughs could be heard from everywhere in the pool area! From the Little 1’s to the Big 1’s! The 30 minute lesson flew-by so fast, and even hours after that one class, I was still so full of energy, and excited about teaching with such awesome instructors! that I’m writing this at 1:15 a.m.!

What made today such a great day, was the energy that *every* instructor put forth to get the kids involved, wanting to participate, and laugh; but that energy goes further past just the kids! It reaches the parents of our students, *AND* other staff members. I’m not one to use big words often(due to spelling errors :-p) but what today proved is that synergy is an AMAZING thing! When everyone(Foss staff, parents, and kids alike) are involved/included in the amazing things we do everyday, it just makes it *that* much better!

Contributed by Erik  Olson, Foss Swim School Instructor/Shift Coordinator

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