Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Swimming classes

On one of our holidays, we decided to explore and learn swimming. A special apparatus was brought from one of the relatives of Karikali, which is called 'Surakudukkai'. It is a hollow, wood like thing, which when tied to the back of a person would help him stay afloat. Kitta mama gave a big build up for our swimming sessions by saying that Swimming will be tiring and we'll get Masal dosas parcel, before we went. The only reason, why I thought I should go is to taste a portion of Masal dosai, which would be the most satisfying thing to have.

The mission started with we getting up early in the morning (6 AM) and going in groups to one of the ponds. As we passed through the pumpsets, we would have a feeling of being promoted from pumpsets to ponds. As we went to the pond, we were welcome by some experienced swimmers and were appreciated a lot! for learning at a young age. Each of us had 10 mins where we had to remain in the water with the Surakudukkai. This is what we did for the first few days. My hopes of having Masal dosai eventually materialized as some pazhayamudhu :(

I don't remember goin there more than 3-4 times, as I was learning Violin from someone and priorities changed. After some time, we went to another pond, and this time there was no Surakudukkai. We were directly into the pond. Since, I had lesser training than others, I felt like fish out of water :( With all the might I had, I did the best I can, apparently others heard a lot of voice. Don't remember what exactly happened :D

Then, based on Sivagami computer josiyam, I decided to stay away from water.

PS: I decided to write this myself, coz if it had been somebody else, it would be more damaging.