a job I will never have

There are a lot of jobs that I never want to have.  1) Pretty much any job featured on the show Dirty Jobs. 2) Any thing involving heights.  Particularly, anything hundreds of feet over open water, or a busy road 3) anything sitting in a cubicle all day  I have now added 4) a ski instructor for kids.

Though I'm sure that they are organized in their own way, these lessons look like complete and utter chaos.

Picture this, 66 kids ages 7 and under divided into 11 classes.  A teacher getting 6 kids standing with gloves on hands and skis on feet.  1 child immediately falls over (usually A.).  Said kid looses her skis and the teacher walks over to help. As the child struggles to get skis back on her feet, a glove falls off into the snow.  Then the child has snowy hands and is now crying because she is not sure if her hands are freezing or burning.  Needless to say, I think the first half hour of ski school accomplished... standing with all clothing and apparel on the correct body parts.  And, as grateful as I am not to be that teacher, I was super excited that A. could, eventually, stand.

 The next step was going down the hill.  The teacher took each kid by hand down the hill and then put them on a conveyor belt back up to the top.  A. was the first one down the hill.  2 of her other 5 classmates stood at the top and cried.  A. said they cried all day.  Gramps said once when he stopped by, 2 hours later, one of them was crying so hard that he even wanted to go up and just say, "it really is ok."

 I left after she went down the hill once but she apparently had a blast.  And, at the end of the day, she could do this

 She could point her skis down the hill and stay upright for a short time.

She could get up when she fell, well if she chose to stand.  hehe

And, she could take on and off her own skiis

Most of all, she could go down a small section of the mountain with her daddy.  He said it was by far, his favorite day with her in her short little life.  I learned that you could not pay me enough to be a ski instructor.