Swimming Pool

There were only three people at the pool at one point this afternoon. I had a lane to myself. My mother made me take lessons when I was in junior high and high school. Once a week we would go to the pool. My lessons consisted of swimming for two hours. Our swimming instructor, Celeste, would sit at one end and devise the next round of laps. Inevitably, the first thing she would do is make us swim twenty laps. Then give us kickboards and have us kick for ten laps. Then think of a certain stroke and tell us to give her laps of that stroke. We were in the "advanced" class. Occasionally she would try to teach us the butterfly, the only stroke none of us knew. That would last for ten minutes and then she would give up and assign us another set of laps to round out the lesson. Posted by eku at April 5, 2004 1:01 PM