Cold, cold, and more cold
I am taking my KINE 198 as a winter minimester, mostly because of a schedule issue.
For those of you who are not familiar with the A&M Kinesiology requirements KINE198 is basically a PE class with a health class component. For my activity I picked “Water Exercise.” I wanted to take Yoga, but it was full and the only other minimester class was water exercise.
Class is from 9 to 12:50 on MTWRF for eight days. We begin in the Read Building with the health component and then move over to the Rec to use their instructional pool for the activity.
Now when I registered in the beginning of December, when the weather was a balmy 73 degrees I didn’t consider the fact that in January it is (usually) cold, and I do not want to go near water, let alone be completely submerged in it, when it is 40 degrees outside. I didn’t consider this, and ironically I am always pleased when it is time to get in the water.
Why? The pool is heated, and better yet the room that the pool is in is heated. This by its self would not make me particularly pleased to move from the health class to the exercise portion of the class, but there is something else that makes everyone in the class ecstatic.
The room that our health class is in is freezing.
It has a window AC/Heating unit that only manages to blow cold air around the room, the windows are all cracked open and we can’t get them closed, and to top it all off somehow this room manages to be colder than outside. So after two hours of huddling together in a fruitless attempt to get warm we all rejoice in the steamy warmth of the pool’s room and even the moderate temperature of the pool.
I have taken to wearing four layers to class, and I wish that I had thought to bring my Beijing cold weather clothes (namely quilted coat, sock liners, and long underwear) up to college station with me.
At least I only have one week left.
For those of you who are not familiar with the A&M Kinesiology requirements KINE198 is basically a PE class with a health class component. For my activity I picked “Water Exercise.” I wanted to take Yoga, but it was full and the only other minimester class was water exercise.
Class is from 9 to 12:50 on MTWRF for eight days. We begin in the Read Building with the health component and then move over to the Rec to use their instructional pool for the activity.
Now when I registered in the beginning of December, when the weather was a balmy 73 degrees I didn’t consider the fact that in January it is (usually) cold, and I do not want to go near water, let alone be completely submerged in it, when it is 40 degrees outside. I didn’t consider this, and ironically I am always pleased when it is time to get in the water.
Why? The pool is heated, and better yet the room that the pool is in is heated. This by its self would not make me particularly pleased to move from the health class to the exercise portion of the class, but there is something else that makes everyone in the class ecstatic.
The room that our health class is in is freezing.
It has a window AC/Heating unit that only manages to blow cold air around the room, the windows are all cracked open and we can’t get them closed, and to top it all off somehow this room manages to be colder than outside. So after two hours of huddling together in a fruitless attempt to get warm we all rejoice in the steamy warmth of the pool’s room and even the moderate temperature of the pool.
I have taken to wearing four layers to class, and I wish that I had thought to bring my Beijing cold weather clothes (namely quilted coat, sock liners, and long underwear) up to college station with me.
At least I only have one week left.