Christian’s 1st Swim

Christian had his very 1st swimming class last Saturday.

He went with his classmates to the mega pool at Pasir Ris a few months ago, and came back lamenting to me:

“Nicole and Andrew can swim already you know..can i go for swim class too?”

I promised him I would search for a swim coach for him, and started asking for recommendations from the facebook group made up of the mummies at his school. Through that group, I found a great coach (although he truly does not look like a swim coach as the mummy had warned me) and also a swim-mate for Christian

Now he has 2-to-1 lessons at his schoolmate’s condo which is near our place and they truly enjoyed the 1 hour lesson. The coach is also rather flexible in terms of missed classes / scheduling, which is great cos I expected the usual policy of no-rescheduling for bad weather, sick children etc.

P and I brought Calista along for Christian’s 1st lesson. She took a long time to warm up but eventually enjoyed sitting at the side of the baby pool, kicking water. My heart beamed with pride as Christian graduated to the big pool, and ‘swam’ the length of it with the help of a float strapped to his back, while holding on to a float board.

Hopefully he’ll continue to enjoy swim lessons, and gain confidence in water in time to come.