To Learn is to Begin

Our youngest is having a crash course in swimming this holiday whilst we are back home. Next academic year he is going on a trip and is mandatory that he knows how to swim. Today, on his sixth lesson, he was already swimming free style on the lap pool. What a transformation. I learnt that alongside him on that pool are the future swimmers of Brunei being trained by proper coaches. These 13 to 15 years old kids are really doing a gruelling workout. I heard sometimes they would come at 5.30 in the morning to do some running at the national stadium next door before swimming at this pool. What is great is that these kids are very motivated and their parents are fully behind them. This is much better than to see kids just hanging around and not really doing much. I only now realised that we do have fanstastic pool facilities and many people are using these facilities. It was quite crowded today with lots of coaches doing one-to-one or group coachings. Many of the learners are young kids. Indeed it is so easy to let your kids learn to swim, a skill that would be useful in the future, for fun or for own safety. Even some adults are also taking lessons as well.