Daddy signed me up for the school swimming meet hoping that I might follow in his footstep and go into competitive swimming. Actually the idea originated from Aunty Joanne who wanted Mummy to sign me up to keep Arvan company. It turned out that she missed the deadline and so I had to swim on my own. Thank goodness I found out Zachary is also participating so I decided to give it a try. I am not very good with crowd and with people looking at me swim, especially when I am not very good with it still. Daddy was very happy that I did not chicken out the last minute even though I was suffering from a 38 degrees fever that day.Daddy decided to meet me at the pool that afternoon as he had to finish some work in the office. So I took the school bus together with some other boys and got there in time for the briefing. It was drizzling a little and some of the parents were worried that it might be called off as they looked like serious swimmers and ready to proof something.
Anyway, my turn came and it was the 50 meters freestyle first. I also agreed to swim because I was on lane 8 and further away from the spectators. I wasn't the last in the heat and Daddy was really proud that I finished the race as I have hardly swam more than 100 meters each time I went for swimming lessons. Zachary did much better but that was cos he has training at Singapore Swimming Club. I also completed the 50 meters breaststroke and again I wasn't last as another boy didn't even complete the race.
