Canoe

I really admire Canoeing people now. You all have super good balance and arm muscles :D Now I am dang sunburnt, got muscle ache and have the skin of my left thumb scraped off. But it was really fun, will consider joining it in J.C. You staying in Canoe?


I got into the canoe, expecting it to be like the kayak of OBS. But I only paddled a few metres before capsizing, the first capsize of the day!


The teacher helped me empty the canoe, and I climbed back in. Wasted efforts, because the moment he left my canoe, the inevitable happened. I tried my best to keep steady, but to no avail. I will never make a tightrope walker.


This happened for a few more times, until the teacher was wondering what's the point of getting me back on the canoe if I have to capsize immediately after that. All this time my more talented schoolmates were paddling somewhere far away. Drunk too much water up my nose.


What made me really determined to stop this was that I knew I was wasting a lot of people's time. And whoops I accidentally made a HCI senior helping me capsize too, while trying to clamber back onto the canoe. So I somehow managed not to capsize any more for the whole of the the morning session. I found it helps to keep paddling and look straight. Even turning around to look back can capsize me.


We learnt all the very basic strokes and stuff. And for the second session I continued the miracle by staying relatively drive. What motivated me was an ant crawling on the boat, for I didn't want to doom it by capsizing. It was fine until the race. You know, under the heat of the race, I loosened my discipline and went down. Poor ant. Oh man.


I found out after I went ashore that the skin of one side of my thumb had come off. Must have held too hard. But I'm really glad the reservoir water looks relatively clean, and my senior certified it 100% potable.


So you see, canoers are really pro. How do you guys even stay on the canoe? And paddle so fast? Haha was it the same situation for yall when you started?