Caden has been slotted to take up Swimsafer Bronze test by his swimming coach this Tues night (at 8pm) which was quite a bad timing for us. He was down with fever on Sunday and Monday and only managed to recover on Tuesday morning. So we were rather apprehensive about bringing him for the test and the weather before 8pm was pouring with thunder and lightning!
Somehow, the thunderstorm didn't hit in Tampines area as we called up the swimming complex to check if pool was closed (our dear coach wasn't responding to our calls or text messages to confirm the test given the weather conditions). Anyways, we went ahead with the test as Caden maintained that he's feeling alright then to attempt it.
It was quite a relaxing experience for him as he has some of his old swimming buddies scheduled in this test as well - Randy, Kelly (Wendy's children) and Renee (Laifong's daughter) plus his ex-swim mates from the 2pm class.
We were there watching the entire process and felt that these kids were really lucky to have passed the test eventually (as some of them didn't perform up to standards!)
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| At the start of the test, the kids lined up in 2 rows |
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| his turn to jump... |
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| here he dived! |
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| after swimming for 2 laps |
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| they moved on to do some life-saving stunts |
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| throwing a rope to the victims... |
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| a different method of life-saving skill where you jumped into the water to pass the float |
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| Caden partnered with Randy |
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| Randy's turn to 'save' Caden! |
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| Mission accomplished! |
Eventually, the tester announced to us (the parents) that all the kids passed this test! (really kelong ah.. hahaaa)
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