Swimming recount

Te Kanawa house were on their way to the village pools for a swim on a boiling hot Monday afternoon. It felt like the sun was angry at us. We were scorched the whole way there and finally we made it all hot and bothered needing a nice long swim. When we got changed all I wanted to do was pop some manus’ in the deep pool.

We were split up into our classes- Room 13 went with Mr Birnie to do swimming drills, room 15 went with Mrs Elmore to do first aid training, room 16 went with Mr Stove to do team building and room 17 went with Mrs Kimber to do survival skills, treading water and not touching the side of the pool for 10 minutes.

In the swimming drills we were diving and swimming widths and lengths in the lane pool. We did dolphin dives and barrel rolls which I thought were pretty fun. The lengths we did at the end was like a game of tag.

In the deep pool it was hard to stay afloat without touching the side. I struggled for most of the 10 minutes but I did it. Matthew almost drowned. It felt way longer than 10 minutes.

Then we did CPR on a manikin. It was lucky we weren’t operating on a real person because we sucked! Lots of people skipped some steps. It that hard. Everyone did the compressions correctly, that was probably the easiest part of that challenge.

The bucket race was pretty fun. I fell over a lot because I had the smallest bucket. I was in a team with Tristin, Jake, Hayden and Rief. Everyone else was lucky because the buckets were small but we all made it.

After all that we were allowed some free time. The first thing I did go pop some manus’ in the deep pool. Rief did the biggest manus’ because his splash went up to the clouds. “Out now, time to get changed!” Mr Birnie yelled! I asked Mr Birnie for one for manu but he said no but just jumped back in. It was a long sweltering walk back to school.

It wasn’t the best ending to a great day because I had a really good time.