That one is less about Linz. On the video you can see a Hallenbad - an indoor swimming pool. This one is very close to Danube river and is one of the five swimming pools in Linz that my carnet is valid for.
That is me doing 25 meters... I know - slow, but I keep on training. I will upload 50m butterfly stroke soon. Enjoy!
Music: Fear Factory - National Panel Beating
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Showing posts with label swimming. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Language lessons and swimming pools
My flatmate Stefie teaches me German. These lessons are quite irregular and both of us have to feel the moment to begin one. Every Lektion consist of reading a relatively short article in die Tagezeitung which we get every morning to the door from some early-waking ghost, then translating it and drinking a coffee. I like these lessons a lot cause I can learn from a native speaker, but also because there is always that mental game in the background - when should I stop asking questions? Lately however, she leaves early and I get my ass up late. I miss the lessons.
Anyway I got the swimming pool carnet!
There are five swimming pools in Linz, all for that one carnet that is relatively cheep - 86 + 2 (carnet fee) euro for 6 months. I have no idea how they count months in Linz, but they are really user-friendly! In Madrid I could buy a month carnet for 45 euro which could last for a week (depending on a day when it's bought) - but here I got it until the end of May 2011. Yes, to the 31st of May, my birthday. That is 6,6452 months. Swimming about three times a week I pay approx. 1,09 euro for each session. I did not expect such a bonus in Austria!
How Austrians swim and why it is so hard for them to change their swimming habits is a different story. Of course they wouldn't call it a habit, but an order. I got even shouted by an Austrian swimmer. They swim like that:
Sounds good? Well... I thought that ommiting the point no. 2 would be easier as the point no. 3 can cover it, but... I still can't argue with someone in German. Soon. Bald.
Funny story. Old guy in a tram asked us to read his SMS as he could barely see the little font on his tiny cell-screen. I read it at loud: "Meine liebe Franz! Guten tag! Ich liebe dich!" He was so thankful! He asked us where we are from and we said "aus Polen". He was so happy about that! And I had been scared of nationalismus. We suspect that he makes many people read it for him daily.
Below is the photo of Linz specialty: almonds, hazelnuts and any-nuts in very tasty sugar-like ornament. Bon appettit! Mahlzeit!
Anyway I got the swimming pool carnet!
There are five swimming pools in Linz, all for that one carnet that is relatively cheep - 86 + 2 (carnet fee) euro for 6 months. I have no idea how they count months in Linz, but they are really user-friendly! In Madrid I could buy a month carnet for 45 euro which could last for a week (depending on a day when it's bought) - but here I got it until the end of May 2011. Yes, to the 31st of May, my birthday. That is 6,6452 months. Swimming about three times a week I pay approx. 1,09 euro for each session. I did not expect such a bonus in Austria!
How Austrians swim and why it is so hard for them to change their swimming habits is a different story. Of course they wouldn't call it a habit, but an order. I got even shouted by an Austrian swimmer. They swim like that:
- if there is one swimmer (on a line) he/she gots all the line (clever)
- if there are two swimmers in a line they have their own half of line! And they swim only on that half - back and forth.
- if there are more than two swimmers in a line then each half of line is in different direction.
Sounds good? Well... I thought that ommiting the point no. 2 would be easier as the point no. 3 can cover it, but... I still can't argue with someone in German. Soon. Bald.
Funny story. Old guy in a tram asked us to read his SMS as he could barely see the little font on his tiny cell-screen. I read it at loud: "Meine liebe Franz! Guten tag! Ich liebe dich!" He was so thankful! He asked us where we are from and we said "aus Polen". He was so happy about that! And I had been scared of nationalismus. We suspect that he makes many people read it for him daily.
Below is the photo of Linz specialty: almonds, hazelnuts and any-nuts in very tasty sugar-like ornament. Bon appettit! Mahlzeit!
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