On Monday morning, I was still mesmerized from the memories of the perfect weekend. After lectures, I had also the office hours. When I was finally alone, I opened my laptop.
Shirin1177>
Menstruation started.
Farhad1177>
No big deal. Plenty to do. We can go for a walk, edit files from our photo session.
Shirin1177>
So we shall meet at the Vietnamese place?
Farhad1177>
Of course. Between 15:00 and 15:15.
After work I went to our lunch meeting with my swimming bag. The rain has stopped, but temperature was still in low numbers. Cold autumn weather and hot noodle sup are perfect culinary combination. I met Zahra few hundred paces from Pho City. In addition to her red beret, Zahra also put on furry earmuffs. Her hands were cold, but her kiss warm and welcoming.
- It's time to look for some sort of thin gloves.
- I have two pair of gloves back at our place in one of my suitcases. I will definitely wear them tomorrow.
- My gloves are still at Kate's house in. We will go there on Saturday morning because of our laundry. Remind me, if I forget.
It's a real pleasure to slurp noodle soup together with a woman who doesn't mind it and doesn't roll her eyes at lunch like a well-bread ladies with good manners. Many customers, especially Asian tourists, were quite happy to join me in an ad hoc slurping music band.
- It hurts a lot? I mean menstruation
- No. I took one ibuprofen. It's really no big deal. Tomorrow it will be fine. Do you think that I should start to use swimmer's tampons?
- No. They are not 100% reliable and you can still get some sort of bacterial infection. We are not competitors, so we can take as much rest as we need. Our bodies should tell us when to go and when to rest.
- Okay. I will still go with you, or tens of females will flock to you and wanted to learn from you and get their hair dried by you.
- Is this something serious? Should we discuss it?
- Discuss what?
- Your fear, if it is in fact fear and not some joke I didn't decipher. We must discuss Jill and other blonds of course. Jill is closer to Kate than to you. We can be friendly to her. In fact because of our happiness we should be friendly to all people, as long they don't try to come among.
- I don't want to be a jealous bitch, but I cannot help it. I'm not self-confident it seems.
- Among top ten things that are on my mind right now, the ten of them are about you. The first thing on my mind is editing our photo collection. I hope Jill will not come to me, but if she does, it wont change one iota how I feel about you. However, unless she would be rude to you, I will treat her politely.
I payed the bill and we went toward nearest tube station. When I swim alone, I swim 4500 meters. First 500 meters are a so called warm-up, which I swim in freestyle. After that I swim 4x25 medleys until the end. After the swim, I stretch out for 5 minutes to avoid any possible joint injury. When I ended my swim and removed my goggles, I saw Zahra and Jill talking together. They approached me.
- Damir, Jill still has problems with her turns. I promised I will talk to you, if you are ready to help her.
- Of course I will help her, if you say so. I shan't be long. Come Jill. Show me how you turn.
Jill jumped in the water and stand up on a underwater ledge. She planted her feet on the wall, submersed her body and pushed off. After two seconds she bended her head and started just fine, but then she got all entangled, with her arms and legs moving in all direction. The problem was obvious. One of the fundamentals of good and effortless flip turn is to do nothing with arms. They must be full relaxed before the flip is initiated.
- Jill, please go to pool master and ask him to lend you two kicking boards.
- What kind of boards?
- It does not matter. Any contour will do just fine.
I looked at Zahra and winked.
- So you and Jill are now bi-ef-ef?
- Bief what?
- Best friends forever.
- Not yet. The sooner you will teach her to perform those turns, she will keep coming to you. She is also very polite so I couldn't say no.
- That's precisely the problem of such WASP ladies like Jill and Kate. They wear their politeness as a piece of jewelry, from kindergarten on, so you never know when it's sincere and when it's faked, always the same shining golden politeness.
Jill returned with two large boards and slipped into the water next to me.
- Okay, Jill. Now hold each board with four fingers above and thumb below it. Yes, just like that. Now put the boards behind your back, palm facing the ceiling. Yes, that's it. Now stay on one leg, bend the other and slowly push off the wall. Kick vigorously for 5 seconds, then stop kicking, relax for a moment and initiate the flip with pushing your forehead downward towards the bottom of the pool.
Jill tried to follow my instruction, but the first attempt was a mess. She almost drowned, because she stayed too long underwater.
- You see Jill, if you want to flip while holding boards, you must do it correctly or not at all, because you cannot move boards underwater, because of too much resistance they create. You must hold them lightly and do not engage your arms at all. They should just trail behind you until the flip is completed. Flip only your head and let the speed do the rest.
Her second attempt was better, but still not perfect.
