Friday 5 - Lifelong Learning

 

1. Where and when did you learn to swim?
   
   I learned to swim when I was 4, which was at that time an absolute exception.
   My father took me with him swimming in our town's swimming pool. Don't know why. Maybe he didn't want me to stay alone with my mother.
   
   The swimming teacher was a lovely woman... For me, not for the naughty boys! She had a way of rubbing their ears and they hated that so much that they behaved rather well after that.
   
   I got my first diploma when I was 5. 
   As that was not possible I did the whole exame again when I was 6.
   By that time I was helping Tante Fien (Aunty Fien), with teaching kids of my age... by being an example and role model.
   Soon the people of the rescue service, who were training water rescues in our swimming pool, were interested in the little girl. So I was allowed to dive to the bottom to help finding the leaded wooden doll and push it to the surface.
   
   It was a magestic time!!
   
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2. What was the first dish you learned to cook?
   
   Dunno.
   Will have been either eggs or potatoes.
   At my grams.
   The next thing was cake.. that's for certain.
   And then apple pie.
   
   
   
3. From this list of American Scouting merit badges, which sound the most interesting and which the least interesting?
   
   Too many to look through.
   On top of it: I don't know all the things that are required to get one.
   
   
4. What have you learned to do for someone else’s benefit?
   
   I am almost always busy for someone else's benefit.
   I learned everything during my life, whether that was fetching groceries for the elderly when I was young, or supporting veterans last week.
   
   
5. In your book titled The Areas of My Expertise, what are the first three chapters called?
   
   Depends on the reader. LOL!
   Now I am old enough to bluntly say what my expertises are I'd better tell what I can't: draw! I can draw a house in perspective... but that's about all.
   But maybe when someone wants to buy a painting from me I will develop a new style.. LOL!

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About **Syl

Syl: "Life is a chain of challenges. Sometimes the largest challenges are we ourselves. Facing life, facing others and facing yourself requires either a worryless attitude or plain courage. Most of the time it is dealing with judgement. Maybe life is about getting rid of it."