2009/6/8 Swimming Gala

I have never been so serious in sports. After I joined the mother-child event, I seriously tried to find out whether I should swim front crawl or breast stroke by consulting a coach. The answer is breast stroke! Can you imagine how silly it is when someone swims breast stroke in a free-style relay? It's me, a courageous mother.

I was introvert during my childhood. Dare not talk to strangers. Simple minded and naive. I took part in 400m in F.1 Sports Day. I did not know how long and how difficult it was. I was nearly collapsed in the last 100m. I joined the school singing contest in F.3. My legs keeps knocking each other when I was on the stage. The voice was trembling funnily. The turning point happened at the night before release of CE results. I felt that my life was too simple and routine. Thus, I decided to choose a boy's school to further my study if I could achieve certain unbelievable result. It was only a dream at first. But it turned out that I was really in a boy school in September 1. I did not know how to swim until November that year, when one of my tutorial students taught me how to swim after a class. She was a good swimmer. She encouraged me to join the first, as well as the last swimming gala in my life. After 2 swimming lessons, I knew how to swim breast stroke. It was only a month before the swimming gala. I thought I would have no more chance in taking part in swimming gala in my whole life. Although I must be the slowest and silliest swimmer, I took part in the 4x50m relay. (There was no girls' 50m breast stroke since it was a boys' school.) The result was that I extremely slow that after all the swimmers of other houses finished, the last leg of my house was still waiting for me! So embarrassing!

Twenty years later, I proved that I was wrong. I took part in swimming gala again. As not many mothers joined the relay, we were able to win a bronze medal. I had never thought of being a mother when I was in F.6. An idiot in sports in childhood or teenage does not mean an idiot forever. Although I do not swim fast, I dare swim. Although I cannot run fast, I run ten 400m-laps easily. If you try, you can do it one day. Tyler, are you proud of me? I am proud of myself.

After swimming gala, we mothers and our sons went to yum cha. Chatter chatter chatter! We had a great time at the restaurant. Our kids also were very happy as well.