If you don't habla the espanol, the title says, "I am learning to swim."
As you have seen from these posts, I like the ocean and being in the water is of no concern to me. But I don't know how to swim. As kids we had lessons one summer, but it was more bubble blowing by the edge type of thing that real swimming. In Boy Scouts I was never able to pass the swim test and always took other elective physical things to avoid it.
Growing up in small town Oregon, Washington and Montana we just never really swam. Once a year we would go to our grandma's house for a week and play in her pool. But that just teaches you how to goof off, not swim.
The internet has everything so I just looked up swim lessons for SD and found a private instructor. I was nervous and felt a little retarded (Tropic Thunder) about being an adult taking swimming lessons.....
Well it went great!!! I am already much much better and can almost begin to relax in the water. I am going to take a few more lessons and then I should be good. Well at least have a basic stroke and then just need to practice practice on my own time.
I am very happy with it and my confidence has improved. Awesome!
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That's awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThats really cool, I just realized that I too can swim, not in the swim like a fat seal, but like.... SWIM!
ReplyDeleteIt made me so happy.
Where in WASHINGOREGONTANA are you from?
born oregon, raised in washington. tri-cities and walla walla. so basically the crappy parts of washington.
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