Ingrid’s swim coach has built a great swim lesson program and he runs it out of the university pool where she trains.
Many of his swim lesson instructors are college students. They teach lessons to make some money during the school year, and some stay at school and work during the summer, too.
Ingrid became one of those instructors last fall.
She’s really good at teaching lessons, connects very easily with kids, and they pay her very well.
This will be the third summer Ingrid is working at a country club here in CT lifeguarding, coaching the swim team, and teaching swim lessons, but things don’t really get going until the second half of June when most schools are done for summer break.
So Ingrid stayed at school after she finished finals to keep teaching lessons through the end of the month.
She sublet a teammate’s room in an off-campus house for a few weeks, covering the rent, food and transportation costs herself. For those three weeks, she was completely on her own.
Yesterday I picked Ingrid up at the airport.
After we got home she went straight to the fridge.
“I think I’ve eaten 5 grams of protein in the last three weeks. I’ve been surviving on pasta with red sauce and overnight oats because I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on food…
I’M SO PSYCHED TO LIVE FOR FREE AGAIN.”
Ingrid might have received the most important education of her freshman year in the last three weeks of May.
Young Grasshopper is learning.
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