Today I'm going to talk about my life saving lessons and later on the exam went about 2 months ago. This is not just about how i did my lessons every week. It is also about how i passed my exam when i don't even come that often. THIS IS GOING TO BE A COMEDY WRITING AT THE END.
On 5th January 2013,
My school had a Co-curricular Activities open day. I reached at my school around 10am in the morning with my dad. In school I registered for Life Saving, CCB ( Cempaka Cooperative Board) and Comic Club. I started my life saving lessons on the the next Monday but because i didn't check Schoology or it is also known as VLE, often, I didn't know that we would also have lessons on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The first lesson we did was Endurance test. It wasn't too hard but.... okay nevermind.. it's alright. Secondly, we had to swim freestyle for 20 laps and each lap consists of 25meter. That was nothing, but it isn't the end yet. Next we had to swim for 25meter while holding our breath. Well..since my stamina is very LOW, I couldn't do it. Instead i reached the surface in the middle of 25meter. -.-||" And finally, it was just swimming for 15 laps of breaststroke.
You see, soon i came less and less often...but of course i did learnt how to save people and stuff but its too many instructions so.... ANYWAYS, finally 2 weeks before my EXAM, my coach finally saw me for nearly after half a month and said " Elysia!! Why didn't you come for the lessons?"and i gave a meek reply saying " ahaha.....I er....I was busy because for school work..." But hey! it wasn't a lie! it was the truth. And he gave me a ' Are you sure' look but he brushed it off.
" Yeap, As I was saying, the week after next is your life saving exam..." and I gave him this 'Are you serious' look and he gave me a nod. I mentally face palmed myself and was saying how stupis i was for not attending to the lessons. And so, for the next 2 weeks, I went to every single training available. I learned how to throw the rope in correct position to the drowning victim and so on.
Finally when the exam came, I felt very nervous. I brought my friend Emily along. She and I love Animes. Okay, back to the topic. As I was saying, Emily is going to be my drowning victim since i had no partner available. Okay, during the test, we had highs and lows. although i did made some mistake, I still kept on swimming with my drowning victim.
Finally, when we came to one part where I always made the really stupid mistake. And that course was called rope throwing. Okay you see, Emily went back home because she had tuition so, this one guy is gonna be my victim... Okay I became the victim first, and so i had to swim all the way to the middle of the pool and wait for the guy to throw the rope at me. Hey it sounds easy but it is not.
So i had to fake drown myself and he threw the rope at me fabulously... The boys are actually better at throwing than the girls you know. Okay, and so i put the rope over my right shoulder and held onto it tightly and I was being reeled by him. So he had to like, life me up from the water, Not really lift but its like lifting and pulling up. And so we had this 'special' was of pulling people and soon it was MY turn to replace him and he is gonna replace me.
I knew that i was terrible in throwing, but then i thought to myself ' I can do this... I CAN DO THIS!!! or else no reading fanfiction or watching anime for a month!' And so, this is what i called believing to myself and I took a deep breath and reeled up the rope and so but at that time i didn't false myself like always, but instead, i just calmly threw the rope and to my surprise, It landed right at his place perfectly!! Well perfectly is what i think.
And reeled him back and pulled him up... damn he's kinda heavy...thank god he's skinny. I can't believe that i did it on my first throw!!! OH MY GOSSHHHHH....!!!! and so soon i shook hands with the examiner and thank my coach for helping and teaching us.
THE END.
And this is my ending. After this.. i learnt that believing in yourself is VERY important and keep calm at all times. Do not panic. What does Nike says...??? THATs right! JUST DO IT! Believe in yourself and Keep calm at all times!!! No matter what! don't let anger take over you!! unless if someone insults you or your family or girlfriend or boyfriends or best friends or whatever.
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