Winter is almost over, and I am dreading the arrival of Monsoon and the swimming season. No, I am not afraid of the water(not anymore, anyways), but the things that are in there.
BNKS juniors(boys) have this terrible habit of sharing everything, including swimming trunks, underpants, sports shoes, socks, and towels. So its no surprise when a contagious disease strikes, all the hell breaks loose. For the last three years, swimming season has had to be canceled halfway through because the swimming pool was teeming with all the organisms for chickenpox, conjunctivitis and other eeky eeky diseases. The pool can be cleaned up and treated with chlorine if an infection is detected, but every other day, some other infected idiot comes and re-infects the pool, and its absolutely impossible to disinfect the pool every damn day. So the school closes the pool entirely.
Apart from contagious diseases, there are other things that sometimes get into the pool that I would not want to get near. When we were in grade six, the pool had to be cleaned and disinfected after someone lost control of the bowels in there. A brown mass was floating on water while were actually in the pool. Quite a few guys had thrown up, and it had become an I-dare-you thing for some time after that. And then I know some people who like to urinate in the pool rather than anywhere else. I am pessimistic, but this things have happened. I'm tellin' ya...