No Ian Thorpe for now. Maybe next Friday

They just started swimming classes at Dominic's school. We weren't expecting anything out of it, but right at the point where everyone started changing into their swimwear, Dominic decided he won't swim.

Which was surprising because he always loved to go swimming in beaches and in swimming pools.

Despite encouragements and some teasing (from me), gentle invitations from his teacher, and a few threats (from me, again) which led to tears (his) he really didn't want to swim. 

My initial suspicion was that his schoolmates intimidated him.  Dominic just splashes water, but these 6 year-olds were doing backstrokes, lapping the length of the pool, and diving through hoops. And that's literally jumping through a hula hoop. The instructor stands in the water, extends his arm holding a hoop and the children standing at the edge of the pool dive into the water through the hoop.

But no, intimidation wasn't the reason.

Only later that night did we find out why.  The knee wound he received a few days ago was still fresh, and he intimated to Mommy his concern that the 'bad germs' would come in and infect him. 

Fair enough, as they often say here.

Since that day, we've been trying to get his commitment to swim at their next swim class, but he seems to enjoy being cajey about it, and keeping us in the dark as to his intentions.  We shall see.