Mira and Milan's Excellent Adventure: Whoever Keeps A Promise? Milan...................

By Vim:

As the school year ends there are many events that parents have to attend at Indus International School - and most, if not all are very taxing to put it bluntly. However, June 3rd and June 4th are the exceptions as its the Indus 2010 Inter-House Aquatic Championship Meet. This year again Mira and Milan have been selected to attend the swim meet to cap of a wonderful year at school. Milan has been practicing freestyle, back stroke, breaststroke - and of course is an expert at the doggy paddle - and very proud of it! He woke up this morning at 5:45am and from the top of the stairs stated 'I will do my best to get a medal dad - I promise'. During that moment I only hoped he does but more importantly I hope he has fun! I was so proud to hear that - something any dad would be.

June 3rd-2010 Grades 1-3 compete. With another scorching sunny day kids, teachers and attending parents are all excited to see these kids compete with each other but most importantly have fun. Truthfully there are several parents who want their kids to win everything and there are those who just have a hard time for their selected kids to get into the pool and compete.

The rule of the Aquatic Meet is simple. Each grade competes with itself, boy against boys, girls against girls and then overall houses against house. There are 2-4 groups per grade due to the large number of students in each grade. 1st, 2nd & 3rd winners are chosen based on best times achieved.

Milan started with the 25m Freestyle event. He came 3rd. His timing was not good enough to contend with other kids from Grade 1 who were amazing. He came out of the pool with a cheeky smile, high 5'ed me and said 'next race dad'. I enjoyed watching him attempt this race knowing the field of contestants from Grade 1 looked a little stronger than him - plus it was a 25m!

The following races were all 16m. He cruised to victory in the Freestyle group 3, but his timing was just slightly off the medal standing, the same was true for his attempt at breast-stroke. Now all that was left was the Backstroke. The happy go kid was in his final race and raring to go. And guess what............. he made the medal standing , Milan kept his promise to get a medal today and that is what our boy did. He was awarded the Bronze for 16m Back Stroke.

Pictures As It All Unfolded.........

Relaxing Before The Races