
the only place where everything seems to go right...
here in this haven where i find solemnity and peace..
here in this world that i created, i dominate..
nothing you say would affect me..
i am me.
i suddenly have this urge to post an entry about our cwts class.. we went to timoga spring pools to have our life saving training.. at first, we had this problem with the msu-iit administration not granting us the permission to have our training.. what? what are they trying to tell us? that they designed a special cwts class of lifesavers that do not have any experience in water training? but that problem was solved after a few minutes of hardcore deliberation.. haha!!! yep.. hardcore..
(ugh! here i am again.. suddenly i lost the urge to write this entry.. but i am determined to finish this one.. so, ehem..)
then, some of my classmates went home.. dunno why. they just went home.. majority of us remained and started our training.. first up: wahas to the hardcore power na warm up.. as in like we started our warm up with 100 jumping jacks, 30 minutes stretching, 50 sit-ups, 40 push ups(which i did not fininsh.. like duh.. look at me..) then we jogged around the olympic size pool 20 times.. then some hardcore stretching again.. then we finally started the much awaited training.. next: breathing exercises.. we had our partners assigned to us. i'm #20 and my partner was #08. i mentioned the numbers because i forgot the name of my partner.. we were asked to hold the ankles of our partner and stay that way for as long as we can take(which, ladies and gentlemen, was very difficult to do..) i managed to stay submerged for 1 min and 7 secs. too bad.. i was one of those who surfaced first.. haha!! next: types of floats.. i love this part.. i did everything, from turtle float to jellyfish float to dead man float to frontal float, perfectly.. hoooray for me!!! fourth: this part was my hatest part.. hatest huh?Ü i hate this part the most because they made us swim under water up to the other end.. how unlucky can i get? ugh! as expected, i did not reach the other end without my back floating on the surface.. ugh!! 5th: freestyle swimming.. hooooray again for me!! i finished the whole length of the pool without stopping..Ü and i tell you, for me, it is something to be really proud of...Ü
*lunch break
after some fulfilling lunch, we resumed with the training.. this time, the types of lifesaving approaches.. the frontal approach, rear approach, and the underwater approach.. one thing that surprised me is that i found the underwater approach the simplest of the 3 approaches.. hmm.. weird me.. next: escape techniques.. these techniques are used when the person you are saving grabbed you.. it's just normal because the only thing that is in the victim's mind is how to get some air and survive.. thus, it is our previlege, yes previlege, to worry over them than ourselves.. that is, the lifesaver gets the bottom part of the pool, applying our breath holding skills just to give the victim air to breath.. back to the different kinds of holds.. the arm lock, the frontal hold, and the rear hold.. hmm.. arm lock is when the victim grabs your arm and hold real tight that you find it very difficult to perform the lifesaving.. frontal hold is when the victim embreaces your neck(victim in front of you).. rear hold is just the opposite of front hold(duh!).. performance of the escapes composed of the 3 holds.. first, the victim will grab our arm.. when we have already managed to escape, they will do the front hold.. then the rear hold.. good thing i did it very well.. haha!!! (instructor: "very well 20...") haha!!!
the culminating activity was when we were asked to jump off the 10-foot high platform down to the sixteen feet water below us.. this activity gave us an idea as to how we jump off a ship when the captain declares abandonment.. haha!!! silly.. boys are told to grab their crotch and cover their face.. girls simply places arm under their breasts while covering the face.. we all looked sooooo funny when we did this.. as in major!!! ahahaha!!!
we ended up closer to one another after that.. hehe.. what a boring ending..