Saturday, December 18, 2004

Kayaking

Day 1

WoW! so happy! kayaking!! yAy! 2 sTar! 10 people: Me, tiff, gracE, huihuA, sharoN, jaimE, celenE, yenkenG, meisHi, mr tAng. went out to seA. did capsize drill? and capsize with our skirt(spray cover) kept water from going in.insT wasnt the same. he's called richard. learnt strokes... paddling was difficult against the current. tirEd. waS so scared about the next day where we were going to kayak more than 6km. learnt eskimo bow rescue...edging...etc. he taught us how to waterproof our food for tmr.

Day 2

eRr....tiReD. aRmS achinG. dieS. eXpedition todaY. more than 6km. 6 people: Me, tiFF, grAce, hUihuA, sHaroN, Mr TanG. we set off in the morning. we were flowing witht he current. that's good. quite easy and fun. inst. zhi hao came with us. had our lunch there. ate lots of junk. lol. inst richard showed us pics of 3 & 4 star. paddled back quite fast...cuz there was rain catching up on us. tirEd. haha. at one point, i was the last. tired. was beside inst zhi hao...he asked me how my hols were....i said ok la. cuz i was too tired to say anything!! haHa. he could see that too. caught up with the front people...went back to prac other strokes. we all didnt dare to do low brace turn. cuz of the edging. scared of capsizing. had to paddle back again. cuz we were drifting fast. did eskimo again. suCcEsS!! eRr...graCe cldnt find his kayak. so she got traumatised. poor girl. aGh!!! burnt! all 5 of us. because we didnt put sun block. haHA. really burnt all on the face. and the arms. so red. like lobster. painful!

Day 3

waH! musclE pain!! arM paIn. face pain. dont touch my nose! 4 people: mE, tiFf, sHaron, HuihuA. cReek. didnt go out to seA. was mainly revision. learnt side strokes. j-stroke, classic draw and scarling draw. scarling for support...i scarEd. haha. some capsized. so waited for inst to pull them up using eskimo. cool. we found a jellyfish. he let us touch the top. they saw a prawn...but cldnt catch it. revised on everything. did one last eskimo. sucCesS! haha. he let us play for a while. was splashing huihua. poor thing. always bullied. it was hot. but we didnt get much burnt. both inst splashed a lot of water on us. haha. inst richard used the shell like a whistle....wah. pro. lol. did t rescue...cuz we wanted to capsize. hot! so we did. haha. went up. bath. then theory. abt diff kayaks and paddles. dancer, bandit, sea kayak...paddles... got our cerT! yaY!

dont touch me now. i'll kill you. lol. i think it was fun la. esp the last day. haha. we thought our inst was fierce on the 1st day. but now...i think he' s quite lame. quite nice oso la. haha. it was fun. only that the no. of pl girls kept decreasing. this is bad. from 10 to 4. is really throw pl facE.

i didnt go for bowling comp today. mom didnt allow. well..haaha. i didnt wanna wake up so early either. i'll just die from muscle aches. ok. i've written quite a lot. dies. i miss kayaking!! how?!?!? i really miss it now!! ha~