One of the problems I encountered in secondary 1 was when I was having my swimming lessons. As you all know, in Victoria School we all have to know how to swim. You would at least need to pass the bronze test. Those who knew how to swim but did not have any certificate would just take a school swimming test. But those who did'nt know how to swim would have to sign up for a swimming course and then they would take the bronze test. I did not have a certificate but I knew how to swim. I wanted a formal swimming certificate so i signed up for the course( I also wanted to show off to the people in that course that I knew how to swim well). During that period I was always loeaded with homework. On top of that I had cricket competition. So I had to juggle these things together. On the first lesson of the swimming course, I found out a lot of people were doing the same thing that I had done( take the course even though we knew how to swim). So our instructor seperated us. Those who knew how to swim would be in a group while those who did not know how to swim would be in another group. I was of course in the first group. The first thing our instructor told us to do was swim 25 laps! We all were dumbfounded. One of the boys asked, " Sir, is that possible?" We all started to laugh. After we finished that we were all out of breath. Our instructor told us that every week we would be increasing the number of laps. After hearing that our minds were conquered by fear. Soon my competition started so I had to miss some of the swimming lessons. Even when I was not in the swimming lesson, I would be thinking of swimming. Sometimes I would get a nightmare about swimming. Once I dreamt that I was drowning. On top of that I had loads of homework. I was really depressed. I could not concentrate on anything. So I made a serious decision. I would quit the swimming lesson and just take the school test. After that I had time for homework and my CCA.
