Yesterday, the same group of children came to learn swimming. It’s been a while since they’ve come to learn (because of a week holiday, heavy rain the next week etc), so we’ve first told them to put their faces under the water and blow bubbles for 10 seconds, so that they’ll get used to the water.

After that, we’ve told them to swim to the 2nd line and we’ve observed each of them, gave some advice so that they can swim better and we showed some demonstrations as well, so that they can see what they’re doing right and what they’re doing wrong.

Towards the end, we’ve taught the arm movements for the free-style. At the moment, all they’re doing is just practice the arm movements while standing so that they get used to the movements, but from next week onwards, we’ll start teaching them how to do free-style with legs.

For the last 20 minutes or so, we’ve played water-polo and had some enjoyment. This is the time where everybody could get to know each other. I’ve already made several friends from teaching and playing water-polo and it is really enjoyable to teach them and play with them, despite the communication difficulties.

Most of the children are showing some improvements (some have made a big improvement but some haven’t made much of an improvement). However, by December, I’m certain that all of them will be able to swim one width of the pool, which is about 10 meters long. We still have several weeks before the end of semester 1, therefore we’ll come up with plans so that we can use the time efficiently and do some productive work so that they can improve in their swimming.