It's a great day to be a lifeguard!

So apparently I never have time to write to this  blog, but now I'll try my best. Starting from the beginning, Friday morning bright and early I was surprised at Helsinki airport by some fellow classmates, pretty sweet! They came to say good bye to me at 5.30am and they had made me a survival book that has a diary part at the end. The flights were long and boring, and I was soooo dead while I got to the Minneapolis airport. I found out that no one is there picking me up, not cool. But then I called some of the camp staff members and all was fine! When I arrived to the camp, we found out that all the other staff members who had arrived (mostly internationals) had gone out to Hudson, so I had the cabin all for myself. I passed out like the second I hit the bed.
Saturday we were free to do anything, so me and couple other internationals were wondering around the camp area (it's huge btw) and went swimming to the beautiful river. It's like really hot in here all the time, so usually when we have freetime we just go down to the beach. It's just the hardest path ever, it's only about 300meters, BUT it's all very STEEP downhill. At the night most of the people were going out again, so I joined them. We ended up going to two bars at Hudson. It was nice, me + 14 guys.
On Sunday we started lifeguarding training. First we had to do some swimmig tests to be able to continue, like 500 meters w/o stopping, saving a brick and diving for 20 meters. It was pretty exhausting and after that we learnt lots of different saving techinques. We swam over 4 hours straight just to figure out that back at the camp they forgot to pack us lunch. So all we got was crackers and strawberries. Lifeguarding continued for 2 more days, with classroom sessions, test, first aid, CPR and more swimming, but NOW I am a lifeguard!!!! I can save some lives.
It's totally different to be at the camp now, cause there are now kids. So basically the few staff memebers who are here are just fooling around, and we are able to go shopping to places like TARGET <3 etc.
Tonight more national staff members will arrive and tomorrow starts staff training.
But now I want to go burning my pale/pink skin some more to that 100F/35C weather!