The recent sessions have been going very successful and in terms of the children’s swimming ability, it has improved dramatically compared to the beginning of this semester. We have been mainly giving them more and more practice, and giving them little tips and advice when we find something that they’re doing wrong, or can improve if they change something.

Teaching a non-swimmer to swim is a challenge, but so far, our group has done a great job, and so have the children. All of us are showing perseverance and commitment in this project by attending each week, and giving hands to help the children to improve their swimming skills. It is not just Avin and I, who initiate and plan what we do each session, but the rest of the group also make suggestions on what we can do. There is a great collaboration within our group and we’re facing and accomplishing challenges together. Through many sessions, I believe all of us have developed our strength in teaching and this skill can certainly be used at some point in life.

In terms of teaching the fundamental computer skills, it hasn’t been going as successful as we have hoped. We have been mainly concentrating on typing using a typing software, but some of the children are getting bored and want to spend more time swimming rather than learning about computers. This teaching computer fundamentals to the children was a new idea that we have decided to add, but since this is our first time, it hasn’t been very well-organized, and this is an area that we need to improve for the next semester’s group of children.

That said, the most important element of this project is teaching non-swimmers how to swim, and this has been successful without a doubt. There are two children who still are struggling to swim, but the rest can now swim well enough to go from one side of the pool to the other (the width). I hope to give my maximum effort until this semester’s last session and help the children to gain the maximum out of this project.