OK, not really flew. But I tried being a flyer... :D
OK OK. Here's what really happened. I'm the teacher-in-charge of the cheerleading for blue house in my school, and I was watching my students testing out the flyers and practising the base positions (FYI: Bases are the people at the bottom of the pyramid, the flyers are the people on top of the pyramid). Towards the end, after many had gone home, there were only two boys and three girls left, and they were having so much fun practising that they actually asked me to try being the flyer. Initialy I declined, but upon their second time asking I decided to give it a shot. I did manage to go up, but err... it being my first time, there was a slight panic and instead of grabbing the spotter's hands, I accidentally grabbed the boys' heads instead. It was pretty embarrassing, but the boys were great sports and readily forgave me. They even let me try again, and this time it went much more smoothly. Probably not great, but at least I didn't grab anybody's heads and I managed to get up there straight without incident. It was pretty fun... and I inspired the captain to try flying (she initially kept desisting). Although there were a few false starts for her, the boys did say, (and I quote) "If we can carry Miss Hoo, we can carry her!!!" And they did...
I kinda wished that there was cheerleading in my school when I was still schooling. It would have been such great fun. But looking back, in all probability, I wouldn't have made it as a cheerleader... I was not at all flexible and I didn't know I could dance until I was 23 when I started taking line dance at the gym out of fun, which only then lead to my serious passion for dancing. Heck, I'm still not flexible, but I'm a lot more flexible than I used to be, hehehe. AND it's improving every day, only because now I'm a lot more willing to try than when I was younger. Sigh... the things I lost out on when I was a youth. Isn't it ironic that when you're older, you try more things which should have been tried when you were young?
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