COSMOS Day 15 - Swimming in the Sun

For the lack of a better title and more time, I am going to make this post simple. Basically, a group of approximately 40-50 students went to the pool in UC Irvine to play between the hours of 12:00 and 15:00. Some students played water polo, others were playing Marco Polo, a small group were playing "ad hoc" games and the rest of the students swam laps. I basically swam about 4 laps before I started messing around in the water, such as holding my breath as long as possible. Then, I found Erwin, a night RA, who was trying to help teach someone in my suite to swim more proficiently.

Forty minutes prior to leaving, I had a small cramp in my right calf, I got out of the pool for the rest of my time. I dried myself, and rinsed off the chlorine at a spray shower outside of the bathroom. I cheated and went inside the bathroom to get some soap to clean myself slightly.

Everyone was rounded up, and the COSMOS name tags, IDs, lanyards or whatever the staff chooses to call them, were distrubited back to the students. Everyone walked back to the Middle Earth housing area, and went back to their respective dorms.

Now why the word "sun" in the title. I got a small sunburn on my shoulder. I usually am very careful to put sunscreen on my face and neck, but I forgot that my shoulder is more or less the msot exposed part of my body when swimming, and I only remembered to put more sunscreen on my entire body only once. I guess I learned my lesson (again), and I will be asking for aloe vera for the rest of the week from Tatiyana.