The Highest Praise

Everybody in the world loves praise. No matter what they tell you, everyone loves hearing that they have done something good, or meaningful, or just did a plain-old, damn good job. At my work, the highest praise you get is mostly just the boss telling you that the parents of the kids you have taught think you are wonderful.

But today I got a different kind of praise, that I could not be more excited about.

This was like on a whole different level! I was so excited.

In fact, it was so good, my boss came up to me, in the middle of a class! to tell me the good news.

I was working a holiday program, which is slightly different to normal term classes because its five days of lessons and the actual lesson plan is more intense to try to encourage fast progress during the week.

Now, a lot of holiday program swimmers don't swim during the term, just on the holidays so it doesn't interfere with school schedules and such, but we always try to encourage new bookings regardless.

Anyway, my boss comes up to me in the middle shift and asks, “can I give you some feedback?”

It was my boss, so it’s not like I was going to say no to her.

She turns to my KIDS, and says, “you children are very lucky, you have the best teacher in the pool!”

I was shocked, but smiling.

“Congrats, a whole bunch of kids from your classes have booked into the term classes. Majority were your kids. Good job!”

Then she just walked off.

And I was just dying. It is almost impossible to get a compliment out of that woman.