Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Swimming Lessons

It was the last day of swimming lessons at Taylor High School. Meanwhile, our parents were standing on the concrete taking pictures of us.
Some of the little kids were jumping off the low diving board. some of the bigger kids were doing dives and stunts of the high diving board. "Wow", I thought to myself.
I was in line to jump off the high diving board. I am still a little bit scared when I jump off the high diving board.
Two people was in front of me. I let the person behind me cut. I was now the last person in line.
My brother was in front of me talking to his friends in front of him. Then he noticed me and said,"It's OK the be scared, just believe in yourself.,"he said.
I trusted him and said " Okay.," I know he was telling the truth but I still felt worried and scared.
Then it was my brother's turn. I said good luck to him. I saw him climb up the ladder and walk across the board. Then he did an amazing running dive! I thought to myself "Someday I'm going to do that, once I learn how to do a dive.,"
Then it was my turn. I grabbed onto the green rough ladder and walked across the board. I looked down and almost fell. My heart was pounding loud and hard. I could almost hear it pounding. I closed my eyes and leaped down. "SPLASH!!!" I was in the water trying to get up. I was swimming back to the concrete. My heart was still beating.
It felt really cold when I got out of the water because it was pretty cold. I didn't do anymore jumps on the high diving board. Afterwards,I went to the low diving board and a couple of jumps.
Then we had to go home. We said good-bye to our teachers and took pictures with our old teachers. In fact, we took a lot of pictures. I had a pass to go to the next level, level 3. I can't wait! Our swim teachers gave us some candy. Then we had to say our last good-bye. I can't wait until next summer!