For Swimming

Due to prepare triathlon, we started to practice swimming this summer vacation. I remember that I had learned swimming when I was an elementary student. However, a swimming camp in a week couldn’t teach very well certainly. We could know each step of stroke in the camp, but how to swim well would be another issue. In the past, I usually would be in the top class of swimming in my life circle, speed at least. Unfortunately, we hadn’t put emphasis on endurance as usual. The main reason is that we only had to swim fifty meters for any test in school from past till now. Though, I decided to enhance my endurance nowadays. Adjusting the posture of stroke without coach was not an easy mission.

In the beginning, I had to get used to swim every week. I seldom swim in the past, because I usually spend too much on play basketball, soccer, or just jogging. Thus, I sacrificed most of my jogging time to practice swimming. After having enough time, I started to find out the mistakes or fault of my stroke. I made many test in order to find which one was the main reason to make me tired. After these testing, I figured out that rising elbow would be the biggest skill. I tried many methods and found some information about it. In fact, there was no absolutely posture in the swimming pool. Each one has some different in detail because their unique body condition. It took me more than three weeks. I found the best method for me by occasional. Nonetheless, I still had to spend more time to remember this posture by body. On the other hands, how to breathing well would be another big issue. I thought that it would be the bigger problem for me, because it was hard to try. After several weeks, I finally found the best way for me. Similarly, I had to remember by body. Still, it was hard for me to find the right tempo in the beginning, just like jogging. I usually have to swim more than 200 meters and find the right tempo. Alright, there would be need for practice in the future.

Eastern

Last week, we took a trip to the eastern of Taiwan, including Yilan, Hualian, and Taitung. The most beautiful coastline is in there. I have enjoyed the amazing view in the year before last by riding bicycle. Nonetheless, some scenic spots haven’t been visited due to the bad weather. It makes the main reason why we have to go to there this summer vacation. The views of coastline in Suhua Highway are spectacular particularly. Therefore, we decided to take out the train at a small station in Suhua Highway and then we were walking on the way to next station. Because, we thought it was the best way to enjoy the trip.

We arrived at the station in the afternoon, and the weather was very hot. We took lots of luggage, but we still enjoy it. We have walked more than 15 kilometer. The worse, we missed the only train which stopped at the next station in the afternoon. What we could do was to take available vehicle. Fortunately, they were going to the same destination, Hualian train station. Then, we took the train to the Taitung at the evening. We will have taken couchsurfing at Taitung for two days. My partner found the information and made an appointment before. The master is a student also who is one or two years older than us. He was very friendly, helping us many things at Taitung, such as renting motorcycle, introducing the city, or even took us to eat breakfast together.

The Truth Was Always Uncovered

From the last years, I would list some books list each three months. In the beginning, I spent much time on philosophy and psychology, and then art and music. Nonetheless, I just finished these lists after I read some books of them. From this summer vacation, the third plan would be made in the end of semester. The topic was about history. History is a subject that we had studied when we were high school students. Thus, I didn’t think that I would learn so many things from this plan at first. The most important of this mind would be putting more emphasize on contemporary history and skipping out from the normal frame. I read different kinds of books from different viewpoint. I found that there are lots of mistakes in our textbooks.

I always think that most important thing in history is not event but effect. Including our country, many events in the past still affect the life nowadays. In order to dominate people easier, make them ignorant might be a good method. As a result, history which was studied in the high school would become a well tool. Students might develop their wrong mind by these wrong history sources. For example, there was no exactly truth in the world. However, our textbook usually said something right or something wrong by uncertainly text information. On the other hand, the textbook also ignore some very important events just because it might rouse new viewpoint.


After I read some books, I decided to expand my history plan. From antiquity to contemporary, I would read more books to understand more details and different view. More than that, understanding different cultures would be another topic. We used to learn western history in the past. As a result, we used to think the events by western viewpoint. In fact, there is not truth in the world. I think that thinking from different cultures would not less important than others. Besides, I fall in love with military affairs after I read lots of history books from First World War to Second World War. The best technology was always used in military. It was another reason why I love them. I think I will make more models from fighter to warship. I hope I could learn more things and get more ideas when I finished this big but significant plan.

Add One More

Though, the time would be end of summer vacation. We still decide to take a trip to Kaohsiung where I had only been one time. Due to one of my friend live there, we didn’t have to find somewhere to stay. It was a three-day travel. We set out at Friday night and took the final train. I haven’t done that before. I got in the train at 11:30pm and it would arrive at Kaohsiung at 6:00 in the morning. However, it was difficult for us to sleep well at train. All of us were still very tired when we arrived at Kaohsiung. First of all, we had to eat breakfast near the train station and then started the trip in Kaohsiung.

The time I went there was last winter vacation which was with my senior high school classmate. We had rent motorcycle last time, so the traffic hadn’t been the problem for us. This time we only took MRT on first day. As a result, we planed some spots where MRT station is there. In the morning, we went to world game stadium which was like the bird’s net in Beijing I had been last month. Then, we keep taking the MRT and visited some famous station such Formosa Boulevard. Nonetheless, the weather was hotter and hotter; we still had to go somewhere the MRT station is there. Thus, we couldn’t do something but go to Cijin District. It is like an island so we had to take a ferryboat to there. Owing to the hot weather and everyone was very tired, we decided to find a pavilion to take a nap near the beach. Unfortunately, the wind was very hot, but my friends still enjoyed it. We ate lunch at a seafood restaurant which was the most important thing for people who visited Cijin. In the afternoon, we went to National Sun Yat-sen University and Sizihwan. The weather was too hot for us to hang out well, so we didn’t stay for long time. And then, we went back to urban district and visited another friend. He took us to somewhere famous in Kaohsiung but not for tourist. At night, we were so tired that we just went to love river which was very famous and beautiful in Kaohsiung.