swimming

previously, mingwei and shiqi have swim lessons offered by chongfu primary school. they claimed to be swimmers but the reality is, everytime they took to the pool, they struggle. if i were a lifeguard, i would be half pressed to know if they were actually swimming strugglingly (is there such a word?) or begging to be saved. that's how `good' they are.
so, one of the things that is top on our list when we moved down under is to enrol the children into swim classes. personally, i think it is a great life skill to acquire.
we managed to enrol mingwei and shiqi in but unfortunately shimun couldn't get a spot in as the class in her age group was predictably full. she is on wait list.
every saturday morning, we head to nunawading aqualink centre for their classes. the centre is an impressive roof covered, heated pool with many other facilities. there is also a gym there if you want to sweat it out. however, where we are at where we have great reserves parks, i wonder if there is a need to do the threadmill. it is a lot more refreshing running outdoors.
the lesson lasted barely 40mins but because of the small number of students per group, they get good and personalized attention.
i can see that they improved leaps and bounds after a few lessons.