It's an undergraduate's worst nightmare: binge eating. With the freedom of university comes the freedom to eat what you want and when you want - without your parents looking over your shoulder. It has become my mission to avoid piling on extra kilograms.
The solution, I figured, lay in regular exercise. That led me to the university's dragon boat team.
To be honest, I had zero previous experience with dragon boats. But they had long piqued my curiosity. There's something majestic and almost romantic about a team of lean paddlers gliding along the water in their swift dragon boat with a cool breeze in their faces.
Signing up for the team was the easy part. Attending practices was a different matter entirely.
Imagine my horror when I learned that from September straight through to mid-February practices would consist of weightlifting.
After the first session in the gym, I was ready to bail. But something kept me going: I began making new friends.
