08/03/2019
Even though I had a crazy amount of fun today, I also got scared. You always think these kind of things only happen to other people because you know yourself, and you’re a “good swimmer”, but boy are we wrong. I’m actually good at swimming, but today, I almost drowned. I was in the wave pool with two of my friends and we went a little further than the first time we went in. When we finally got the rythme, we probably jumped over the waves for like 10 minutes straight, and next thing you know, I hear a “WOOHOU”, I turn around and the life guard was telling me I couldn’t be where I was with my glasses (which were on my head) and when she said that, I lost the rythme and that’s when the first wave hit my face. I tried catching up my breath: another wave. I tried going at the bottom of the pool to jump and catch some air: another wave. So by the third-fourth wave, I had nothing left and I gave my friend a “look” while she was asking me if I was “okay”. She came foward, went down the water and pushed me up, then proceeded to put my arm around her head to bring me near the less hollow side of the pool, basically risking her own life to help me. Yet what did I hear? “WOOHOU”, the same life guard telling us we couldn’t hold on to eachother. At that point I wanted to yell at her, but I couldn’t cause my lungs were filled with water.
An hour later, my friend, her mom and I decided to go to the beach. Near the restaurant places, I saw an older man taking pictures. He was by himself and he was acting up, so I found it a little more odd than usual. I decided to look at what he had taken pictures “of” and unfortunately, it was of a young teenage girl in a bikini. The girl in question had her back from him, so she never saw what he did. I was repulsed and shocked, but the man proceeded to sit down and stayed on his phone. So we continued to the beach and as we arrived, my friend forgot her towel so she decided to go back and get it by herself. Five minutes later, she calls me, saying the SAME guy took a picture of her and she asked him to delete it because it was disrespectful and clearly because you do not do things like that. But he held his phone close to his chest and proceeded to say “sorry sorry” and he left. My friend came back with a towel on herself. Why? because she felt disgusted, humiliated and taken advantage of.
We went to a waterpark to have fun without caring too much, thinking it would be a safe place. This goes to show, that people are willing to pay 45.00$ to a waterpark for what? To take pictures of young girls in a bathing suit without their consent. That even if you think you are safe and that people are watching over your kids or even yourself, they really aren’t. We only have two eyes, not 50 and certainly not 100. That life guard had two eyes, which were on me on two different occasions and she failed to see I was in desperate need of help, and when someome else did, we got yelled at for it.
