It's been hot here. It becomes more than 30 degree recently.
Sometimes, the temperature becomes more than 35 degree.
In Japan, we have the class of swimming at school. So, I wonder
if you have such a class in your country. I am wondering if
people in cold countries have the class of swimming.
Most of the school
have a pool besides the ground.
Students learn how to swim the crawl and the breaststroke.
I didn't learn the backstroke and the butterfly stroke.
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Um, maintaining a pool is an expensive deal - so having a pool is a matter of money, not climate. I think.
The place where I am coming from it can get up to 45C, rarely 48-50C in the summer, but there is not a single pool - it is a poor place.
Here in Denmark, temperatures rarely reach 35C, but each district has its own (huge) public swimming pool and many of the schools have their own pools.
There is swimming on the school schedule - summer and winter alike - starting from second grade, I think. Many parents also go to the district swimming pool with their children often.
Danes are used to the cold weather - from very young age (like 2 weeks old) the babies sleep outside in babywagons - also in the winter. So they get used to wet and cold weather early. In the winter it is not unusual sight to see a person that comes out of the district pool with wet hair - same goes for the kids after swimming in school - they don't have time to dry, so they just go out and play, while they are still wet from swimming.
Cool isn't it ;)
Shantal ForSD
I guess the climate of Denmark
is much different from my hometown.
Maybe Denmark is same latitude
as the one of Hokkaido, where is
the north area of Japan.
And the climete must be different from Hokkaido because
of the geographic reason.
I learned that the westerlies
affect the climate.
In Canada, we do have swimming pools in schools...
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