SWIMMING CARNIVAL 2008!

OMG, I'm really shagged from swimming carnival. The last time I swam that intensively was for the swimming drive at Toa Payoh in er, end of IP2??? Really have to work out.

but still, we had lots of fun!! The team: Huiwei, Charlyn and Jiasheng! Yay you guys rock XD Regardless of the result, we still won together! :D

The first event was Charades. Basically, one person had to swim to the other end of the pool, and pick a card. The card would show a swimming style, and the person would have to act it out for the next swimmer to swim across the pool. And this goes on and on until the whole thing ends! Jiasheng went off first, followed by ME! And I had to KICK all the way to the other end of the pool! Oh man, by the time I reached the other end, my thighs were like BURNING. I finally realised how useless my kicking is since I felt like I was really slow. This also means that my freestyle is 85% dependant on my arm muscle!! Gotta train up, gotta train up. Still, reached there soon, and the first card that I picked was like: swimming across with only one hand?? I don't even know how you even do that, so I promptly changed to another one. Thankfully, it was freestyle, and Huiwei came charging across! Next, it was Charlyn that came over in breaststroke. Woohoo we finished that part in no time!! :D:D:D

The next event was against resistance. We had to run across the pool, turn around a pole for eight times, and dash back across. I think this event was really lame T___T Lol Jiasheng even ran back haywire super funny guffaw XD

Next event... it was water captains ball!! We played with our junior class 08IP04. Our juniors were really good! Especially Matthew who kept appearing out of nowhere. We played against 06Ip01 and 08Ip01 and GRRR the 01 guys are super rough... Couldn't stand them at all so I just kept screaming at them to stop it T__T Huiwei and Charlyn suddenly suffered from cramps halfway in the game, but they even persevered on! Admirable :D The game ended abruptly because a girl from 08Ip01 suffered from severe cramps, so yeah that was all.

the next event was erm, placing a balloon between two tummies, holding an aluminium foil between our mouths and going to the other side of the pool. This was rather boring I shan't elaborate.

THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT! THE RELAY!!! Argh it was so stressful la!! I was the first swimmer, and I was like moaning and groaning (to relieve stress) before the swim. Thankfully, the tension went away when I dived into the pool. I swam freestyle, and it felt pretty fine but eventually got really tired out and slowed down. By quite a lot I feel. I was swimming with Zichao, since he was at the lane beside me, and I could feel him catching up!! ARGHHH!! it was really really annoying. okay, but at least i reached the other end. Quite surprising too, since Jiasheng was already gone when I lifted my head from the water.

Finally realised that the freestyle wasn't as bad as I expected. It was over rather quickly... But it's just the feeling of anticipation before the swim that is dreadful.

okay when I reached the other end, I couldn't see anything at all because I didn't have my specs on T_T I only knew that Huiwei suffered from cramps halfway during the swim too and she was seriously in need of help at the end of the competition. Luckily her life wasn't in danger or anything lar. And Charlyn was really fast in her freestyle la!!!! Heard that she closed up on the swimmers in front pretty quickly :D:D

okay, that's all for the highlights of today's event. Goodbye!