- October 21: RVY Spooky Sprints (Waves, Thunder 2/3)
- October 21-22: GSCY Champions Classic (Thunder 1, Lightning 1/2, all Junior and Senior groups)
- October 22: Devilfish Classic (Waves, Thunder 2/3, Lightning 3)
- October 28: Girls Black vs. GMNY
- October 28: Boys Green vs. MEY
To all of our swimmers, good luck and swim fast!
More Information: please visit the Events Page for specific event information. The full meet schedule will also be communicated in early October.
GSCY Storm athletes are invited by our friends over at Fitter & Faster to attend their Four Strokes Swim Camp taking place on November 11 & 12 in Princeton. This camp is being led by 2x Olympian Matthew Abeysinghe. There will be two sessions each day, both designed for swimmers ages 9 & over. Sign up today to reserve your spot!
November 11: Freestyle & Backstroke Technique
November 12: Butterfly & Breaststroke Technique
CLICK HERE for details and registration. If you have any questions about the clinic, please email Michael Plantamura at Mplanty@fitterandfaster.com. See you there!
If you placed an order with California Beach Hut earlier this season for team suits or apparel and have not had a chance to pick it up yet, remaining orders will be at the Bridgewater YMCA. Please ask the Front Desk for your order. Note that orders will only be at Bridgewater through Friday, October 27th.
Questions: please contact Agnes Doucette at agnesdoucette5@gmail.com.
The Paperback version is being restocked but the Kindle version is also readily available!
Preface of Yangtze River Eastward, Vol.1 长江东流去(上卷）
This is the first volume of the trilogy “Yangtze River Eastward ”, which seems to be a sketch of a slowly unfolding gorgeous picture, similar to the prequel in “Star Wars”.
Liu Bei was weaving mats and selling shoes in “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”(one of the Four Chinese Classic Novels), Lin Chong was on the verge of death in “Water Margin"(one of the Four Chinese Classic Novels), the young Forrest Gump walked on a brace in the movie “Forrest Gump”, and Gao Qiqiang made a living at a fish stall in the TV series “The Knockout”,... are a group of ordinary people who are ignored, disliked, bullied, and even put to death, but they are also the most down-to-earth and can resonate with every one of our readers or viewers, “Humble Beginnings.”
The same goes for Gong Yicheng in this book. A post-70s born in a small town in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River’s south bank, he, together with many of his compatriots, participated in the “going abroad trend” in the early 1990s, and when his “American” ( Pun in Chinese, also means Beautiful) dream came true, after all, the journey along the way seems to be a rough road. He found a part-time job in a restaurant outside the school, cutting vegetables, helping the chef and serving dishes, and occasionally sleeping on the street; life on campus was not peaceful either. Just as he was getting better, he accidentally got involved in an unexpected whirlpool, fell into a conspiracy, and suffered a lot, and his friends struggled in difficult situations and even paid the price with their lives...
The tallest tree in the world is the California redwood on the west coast. Every fall, the thousand-year-old redwoods are covered with pine cones. The only way to break them is a raging forest fire. The outer shell of the cones is burned until it bursts open, and the pine seeds tightly wrapped inside have a chance to settle into the soil. If it happens to meet a certain temperature and humidity, they begin to take root and sprout. Only after weathering all kinds of blows can it become a tall tree that stands tall and majestic.
This is true in nature, but what about ourselves? Mencius said, “Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and disturb his actions. Therefore, tempting his heart and forbearance will benefit him in what he cannot do .”
Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, there is no exception.
The moving part of “Forrest Gump” is that it reflects the changes of the great era from the perspective of an ordinary person, achieving the unexpected effect of seeing the subtle things. Gong Yicheng was once an overseas student. He explored step by step in a grand era background. Even if he was walking in a foreign country where “there is no sound like his home country”, he still had to “go for the mountains and the rivers”, and You and I are “on the same journey”. If this book makes you a little interested in the subsequent journey of Gong Yicheng and his fellow travelers, its purpose will be achieved.
I have climbed the “Mighty 5” in Utah, a total of five National Parks with different scenery. Deep in the canyon and on the inaccessible cliffs, several ancient rock paintings discovered by archaeologists are vaguely identifiable. We can know that there were traces of the civilization of primitive tribes here three thousand years ago. I hope that this humble work can be like those rock paintings that have been baptized by the long years, leaving a trace of life for our generation, and this group of people that can withstand the oblivion by the time.