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Thursday, August 11

Whoohoo! today was certainly an interesting day mann... First, I went to school feeling no need to hurry and walk at a leisurely pace, not caring if i would be late or not. After all, we would be at the forum, isolated from the rest of the school. So i made my way to forum. Turns out that its the wrong destination. Not a single soul found there. Souls that i can see of course. Since this is the seventh month, there are obviously some that you and i can't see. I certainly do not mean them. Isn't it really creepy if you are standing beside one unseen being and you don't know it? But its definitely worse if you know it.

Anyway, went to class and realised that we had to have morning assembly with the school after all. I practically ran all the way down to the track and missed being late by a spilt second. So much for wanting to enjoy the slow and leisurely walk all the way. I still had to ran in the end, and some more its with my big heavy bag with all my swim suits and stuffs. I probably look like a clumsy idiot stomping like an elephant down the stairs and all.

Had to wait a long while before we finally reached the swimming pool at STU (Singapore Teacher's Union). Changed into our swim wear and had a little splash and sploosh with the water. Then we swam around the pool(leisurely as i would have like) and floated about like dead leaves. After what seemed like ages out of the water, we finally had our try with scuba diving in the pool. I felt like a fish out of water. Only I'm in the water, which is ironically, the fishes' natural habitat. The tank was extremely heavy and i could feel the weight of it pulling me down. I could hardly walk in shallow waters, only stagger.

Later on, we had to practise breathing through the oxygen device in the water. That one was fine. But I kept trying to breathe through my nose since im so not used to not breathing through my nose. I even had to resort to tiring ways such as pinching my nose. That made it even worse in a way. I totally stopped breathing altogether and had to rise up to the surface to get some sweet lovely air. When i finally grasped hold of it, the instructor wanted us to practise what we should do when our oxygen device was hit out of our mouths. That was difficult. When we took it out and put it back again, we were supposed to press this thing so all the water would go out and we'd get fresh (or maybe not so fresh) air to breathe. I tried a couple of times but resurfaced as it didnt seem correct.

Finally i got it correct. I was so excited, i tried again to make sure i really did it. This time, however, i wasn't as cautious as before. When the water was released from the oxygen device, i took in a huge breathe and in went a large amount of pool water. That shocked me and i was so relieved that i am somewhere near the surface and not deep down a hundred feet or something. After coughing out most of the water and gasping desperately for air, i finally realised that scuba diving was not as easy as it seems to be like The Champions. This near death experience made me never want to go for the real scuba diving, though diving in the swimming pool is perfectly fine with me, as long as i don't need to hold hands with others(I need those hands to secure that the oxygen device is firmly fixed into my mouth).

The next skill we had to learn was the clearing of fogged goggles. I hated that the most. The instructor showed me how to do it under water and signalled for me to follow. I didn't intend to try that out cos i know my eyes can't stand water and so, i pretended that i didnt understand his signal and looked away, hoping that he would turn his attention to someone else. To my horror, he tapped me on the shoulder and signalled to me to do it again. I sighed inwardly and tried. The next thing i knew, water entered my eyes and it hurt like salt being rubbed on your wound. I rose up immediately, though i thought i could sense that the instructor got quite irritated with me cos i can't seem to do anything right. But don't get me wrong ok, the instructor is a pretty nice person. At least he didnt show his frustrations directly.

I hate those flippers we had to put on. They made it ultra difficult for us to move. And before we went down, i completely made up my mind that no matter what, im not going to let my oxygen device leave my mouth for a milli second and no matter how fogged up my goggles get i won't try to clear it. Then down we went, my heart pounding harder after each passing second. I was so worried that i would suffer from decompressional sickness or become deaf that i clutched on to my mouth piece without any intention to let go of it at all. When we went down, my ear suddenly hurt like hell. I totally forgot about the press nose and blow thing. When i finally remembered, i did it for approximately hundred times before the pain would go away.

And then, it was time to take photos. The instructor wanted us to hold hands! Of course i won't do that! Let go of my mouth piece?? I can't survive with it mann... So i refused to do so and the instrutor had no choice. After taking a whole lot of pictures, we shot up to the surface and used our flippers to propel us towards the shallow end.

And then it was all over.

Our scuba diving trip in the pool...

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6:26 PM