Swimming

In Indonesia, swimming is considered a sport+leisure activity. I usually go with friends and or families, spend some fractions of the time swimming, and the rest of the time is spent by chatting, playing/fooling around with others. A swimsuit is the only basic necessity for a girl. A boy could even get away with plain shorts.

Here in Italy, swimming is a sport activity that is taken seriously. Wearing swimsuit and swimming cap is a must. Swimming pools are divided into lanes (we have this too, but only in pools specialized for athletes/competitions). People have to choose a lane, and swim in certain direction only in this lane. There's a line drawn in the bottom of each lane, virtually dividing each lane into two sub-lane to guide you. Every time you have to swim in your right sub-lane. So, a perfectly ordered lane will be full of people swimming one after another in an ordered long circle.

And, oh, boy, we begin to think everyone is a pro swimmer here. Since not only everyone would reach the end of the pool after around 10 strokes, they would continue this circle lap after lap after lap endlessly without breaks in between.

It was really mesmerizing seeing this continuous circles of people, powerful-splashes one after another, roaming each narrow lane.

But, that was until we indonesian girls swim there :D

We do follow the line and lane rules of course, mind you. But since we enjoyed ourselves very much, we stopped to chat in the corner of our lane almost each time we reached the end of the pool :D
Apparently this disturbed the continuous circle of Italian serious swimmers in our lane, since after some time we noticed that we had our lane for ourselves, hahaha.

Oh, well, at least we all enjoyed ourselves ;)