took mc todae, called the office at 7 with this sleepy voice and they immediately gave me mc. haha~ felt a lil bad tt i have to throw my students there but what to do? need to go for this training. anw, it also means i get to meet new ppl of MY AGE!!! haha~ so long nvr meet ppl my age le, always either older or younger than me one....

so i reached je interchange at 8.30, met zhiyu n went up to the platform there to meet feli n all. dont reallie know the other ppl there, only know e jj ones. but some i saw b4 at our training session, like ad(or is it utt? ah.....)took train down to kallang, then met even more trainers there. after most of us have arrived, we walked to the singapore dragon boat association for our db training today.

think the time we started was 10.10 le... then we had breifing, n a lil talk on db history, n then we had warm-up exercise b4 it was time for our training! put on life-vests, took an oar each n we climbed into out boats. mine was the bigger one, think ard 15 ppl, mainly jj one... haha~ so we pushed the boat back n off we went!

first, the commands. 1st command of the day: Paddles up! (to which we replied: UP!)
2nd command: Ready to give way? (READY!)
3rd command: Give me 20 long pulls/ short pulls(1,2,3.....)
4th command: Hold water(stop paddling, hold paddle 45 degrees to the boat n stop boat)
5th command: Easy(stop paddling, relax)
6th command: something paddle (basically u stop paddling n place the oar in the centre of the boat)

n then there's the warm-ups. to the front, the back the sides....

n then the buoyancy test, to see if our life-vests are in good working condition. i like this part, so fun! floating on water... hehehe~

n then it paddle time! hard paddling, we even had a lil competition with e other boat. n of course all tt yelling n cheering. came out soaking wet. n during the paddling, my cap flew off, lucky only landed in the seat behind, so managed to save my cap! haha~ didnt dare put it on after tt.

total time taken: ard 2 hrs

after which, short debrief, then short breifing for my first camp! 14-16... another newbie(n oldbie, depends on how u see it),may,is doing the camp as well! hehe~ a new fran.... hahaha~

and then, went to shower while e rest had other camp briefings. after waiting a while, mi n may decided to walk to indoor stadium to shower. so nice... haha~ along the way chatted abt a's n all, n may n her fran(i forgot his name), tot mi n zy r tog...-_-"...liaoz, n all bcos i talked to him for like less than one min? they very funny hor.... then miq how? my husband liao ah? hahaha~ the shower there so nice! so refreshing... hehe~ thanks to may for the bath foam n shampoo... hehehe~ took our time in there since we have to wait for the rest. finished, came out, headed back to e sdba only to see them walking out on e way to indoor stadium to bathe. -_-". so we walked back there w them, then may left to meet her fran in town n i waited for the rest of them to finish bathing.

after tt, headed to suntec w ad(or utt), zy, miq, jing yuan n two other gals. reached there, ad n the other two gals left while we met wayne at kfc. he finish makan liao, so mi,zy,jy n miq bought the family meal n share. haha~ finish makan, went walk to mrt station, board train, go home.

reached home, ard 4plus,5 le. now very tired n feeling woozy. hand pain. wonder how am i gonna teach tmr. hahaha~ tt's all fer now! chaoz!

*itching to go shopping - again*