Second day of the leadership course in Temburong has got to be the most toughest of all, I'm not even kidding. The night before, we were told that there will be a flag raising ceremony at 6am sharp and we were asked to sing the national anthem as well, as we're the only Bruneians there. During that time, 4 group of Singaporeans were also there taking up all sorts of challenges which were different from ours. Theirs looked tougher, I don't think I can handle it.

So anyway as what I was saying, since the ceremony was at 6am, we thought that we needed to wake up extra early because of the obvious reason, we needed to be ready before that time. Second was because, at the place that we stayed, there was only one building where all the toilets and showers were located. Actually two, one for the ladies and the other one for gents. So taking into account that we weren't the only ones there, it was definite that we needed to wake up extra early so we won't have to fight to use the bathroom. Thankfully we all woke up early and managed to get ready before the Singaporeans woke up and we were also in time for the flag raising ceremony. 

After we sang our national anthem and finished with our dua's, we were told to share our motto that we created the night before, and seeing how it was too early for everyone, we almost forgot our motto! Though, again, Rawi came to the rescue and stepped up to share our motto! Next we had a light workout session that consisted of jumping jacks, lunges, pushups, crunches and also some light jogs. Afterwards the coach told us to get changed because we were going to do the "dip and float" practice again. I got really excited to go to the river again but the route we took to go down the river was a bit different than the day before. It was more complicated and it was a bit slippery as well. I had to hold the person in front of me at all times because I tend to get scared over those things.

The water was again really cold but indeed so refreshing! Though this time we had to practice floating by ourselves and to just go with the flow, literally, and towards the end the coach instructed us to swim diagonally. I had no trouble with it because I can swim but a friend, Ziqah was contemplating whether to do it or not because she couldn't swim and before that day, she couldn't even float. So to make her less nervous I volunteered to do it next to her but once we were asked to swim diagonally she didn't manage to turn her body and swim, instead she floated further from us so I panicked! but the coach and the other person (who was in charge of the temuai, which was this long boat) told us not to do anything and let her do it herself. Though, as she got a lot further from us and we all started to worry. We all kept telling her to turn her body and swim diagonally! She tried but she still couldn't do it and she went further away from us. We unconsciously moved towards her but she was still far from reach. The person in charge of the temuai was on standby and went near Ziqah but in the end she managed to swim to the side herself and stood up when she felt the water wasn't as deep. We all were so happy and proud to see her did that by herself. To see someone who is scared of the water, who also didn't have any knowledge in swimming, did that all by herself was definitely inspiring. This shows that even when life gets hard, always remember not to give up! You'll surprise yourself and I'm sure thats how Ziqah felt. And Ziqah, that is what you call an achievement!