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Visit by Karen Robertson of Float Plus Swimming Hong Kong

Karen Robertson from Float Plus Swimming in Hong Kong contacted us at the Women's Swimming Project and mentioned that she would be spending Christmas in Sri Lanka fairly close to our Headquarters at Easy Beach and that she would love to meet up with us, if at all possible. Karen very kindly travelled all the way over from Hong Kong with a very large bag of assorted new swimming costumes for the Project. Thank you Karen so very much for generously organising and bringing the costumes at such short notice.

It was also a big uplift to find we have much in common: our Total Immersion® based methods of teaching swimming - many thanks to TI Founder Terry Laughlin from USA and Shinji Takeuchi, Karen's TI Guru from Japan.

In the Christmas Spirit. Christina and Karen with Project swimming teachers Pauline, Indu and Dinusha

Karen had the opportunity to meet some of the swimming teachers our charity has trained and to also share in the Boxing Day festivities. The women and children of our neighbours in Ahangama were invited to meet an 8 year-old baby elephant we had arranged to call on us, elephants here being considered harbingers of good fortune, hence its programmed surprise visit to the Project. The women will each be given one of Karen's donated swimming costume each that she and her partners so kindly donated once our own swimming pool has arrived and these women have the opportunity to learn to swim in it.

Not sure who was more excited: the children at the prospect of feeding the elephant, or the elephant at the prospect of eating all those tasty bananas. Either way, you are looking at the future 2013 crop of swimming students - our next door neighbours.

Then, very quietly, three of the swimming teachers, Indu, Dinusha and Sumudu whispered, "Please, may we ride the elephant?"

We now wait patiently, in this New Year of 2013, for the arrival of the I CAN SWIM CAN YOU Swimming Pool which is being donated by the British High Commission in Colombo as a humanitarian gesture to reduce drowning Sri Lanka by helping the people of Ahangama to learn to swim as speedily as possible. Nothing like ending a challenging year on an auspicious note for the future.

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