In the Mood for Pool

7 mars 2010

I was not a early-adopter like A***, but the Renaissance Gym Center just behind my street became my new daily place-to-be - especially the underground, where the pool is.
It would be useless to list all the good points of this pool compared to any French one - opened until 10pm, clean, with enough hair-dryers for everybody, and so on - so I just picked-up some scenes, representative of the smooth atmosphere of the place. For obvious reasons, I could not take pictures, so I just drew the following images.

In a Japanese pool, Aquagym lasts at least 1 hour and all the people keep focus all time long.
It looks like a perfect ballet.

In a Japanese pool, young and hansome coach likes to chat with grandmothers,
without fearing that the rest of the staff have fun of them.

In a Japanese pool, housewives come with their baby for them to get used to water;
the session's coach in a young man carrying a doll and everybody seems to have a lot of fun.

In a Japanese pool, when a staff member makes a little girl jump into the water with a big splash, he's almost submerged by a wave of kids begging for the same thing.

In a Japanese pool, you swim in line and it makes you feel that you are alone in the water.