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conulyI signed up last year, then suffered a crippling bout of embarrassment and didn't go.
Which is even sillier than going and not being able to swim, right? It's like when I was a kid, and I KNEW it was silly, but I HAD to check the wardrobe for Narnia because it would be even SILLIER if there WAS a secret passage but I never found out!
So this year I went, dashing off in the rain before embarrassment could strike.
I immediately got bumped from the beginner class to the REALLY beginner class, four of us anxiously unable to do the ominously named "Deadman's Float". (The instructor also called it a Superman Float, which I guess covers all your bases.)
Well, long story short, I am now able, for a very short time, to propel myself forward in the water. I still can't keep my face in it very well, though, but I work on it. The girls marveled that I don't need a belt, but as I pointed out, being a grown woman I am provided with my own *natural* set of belts. Also, I am unlikely to drown in four feet of water while surrounded by others. I mean, it can happen, sure, but it probably won't.
Which is even sillier than going and not being able to swim, right? It's like when I was a kid, and I KNEW it was silly, but I HAD to check the wardrobe for Narnia because it would be even SILLIER if there WAS a secret passage but I never found out!
So this year I went, dashing off in the rain before embarrassment could strike.
I immediately got bumped from the beginner class to the REALLY beginner class, four of us anxiously unable to do the ominously named "Deadman's Float". (The instructor also called it a Superman Float, which I guess covers all your bases.)
Well, long story short, I am now able, for a very short time, to propel myself forward in the water. I still can't keep my face in it very well, though, but I work on it. The girls marveled that I don't need a belt, but as I pointed out, being a grown woman I am provided with my own *natural* set of belts. Also, I am unlikely to drown in four feet of water while surrounded by others. I mean, it can happen, sure, but it probably won't.
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Date: 2013-07-13 02:01 pm (UTC)But all I want is that if I go with the girls to the pool or the beach, and they CAN swim fairly well now, that I can let them go a little further than I currently do and know that if the lifeguard somehow doesn't see them, I might still have a shot.