28 January, Monday

Whoa! On Monday, we had our volleyball induction. The volleyball induction was so short! But we had our volleyball training for the first time in BPGHS!!! It was so tiring...

It was a torturing time for my friends and me. We did stretching exercises called 'pao qiu' and I guess I used the wrong part of my hand to hit the ball. My hand is full of bruises thanks to my stupidity... -.-"'

After that, we had to jog 4 rounds around the school field without stopping. We did shuttle runs and learnt an exercise that was rather tricky. We had to bend our legs as much as possible and jump to either the right or the left with large steps.

Then, we went to the net. We bent as low as we could and jumped as high as possible with our hands above the net. Lining up in a row, we took turns to bend, jump and take 1 large step, still bending. Bend, jump and take 1 large step again until our coach told us to gather.

Before leaving, we had the last torturous activity. We had to do 3 sets of "hao peng you"!!! For your info, 1 set of "hao peng you" consists of 20 times of bending of the knees while locking our arms together on each other's shoulder and shouting the number of times we had bent down.

When we did 2 sets of "hao peng you", our coach thought that we had not done any sets yet, thanks to our shouting that was too soft for him to hear. Fortunately, he just told us to continue with our third set but this time, shouting even louder than the previous 2. Whoa! Every girl was so enthu! We started shouting until 11th or 13th round...

Some of the girls could not endure much longer and we had to take a few seconds of break. Haiz... The coach saw us stopping and told us that we had to do our last set without stopping. Therefore, he said that we should repeat the last set over again. DISASTER!!!

The few girls who stopped were already having muscle cramps!!! No choice, we had to withstand the aching of the muscles. Phew! I endured the 3-4 sets of "hao peng you"!!!

Finally, we did a cheer and went home!